PinnedPublished inThe Modern ScientistRemind Me Again Why Large Language Models Can’t ThinkTo avoid looking like an unsophisticated fool it is safest to avow that LLMs cannot reason, think, or truly perceive the world. Sometimes…Apr 6, 202320Apr 6, 202320
PinnedPublished inGeek CultureSchur Complementary Portfolios — A Unification of Machine Learning and Optimization-Based…This post considers both “modern” and “machine learning” portfolio approaches, and I show that they are sometimes the same. This viewpoint…Nov 21, 2022Nov 21, 2022
PinnedPublished inGeek CultureIs Facebook’s “Prophet” the Time-Series Messiah, or Just a Very Naughty Boy?Facebook’s Prophet package aims to provide a simple, automated approach to the prediction of a large number of different time series. The…Feb 13, 20213Feb 13, 20213
Published inGeek CultureAustralia Can Become an Artificial Intelligence Powerhouse — by Luring Algorithms to its ShoresOf late there has been much talk about how countries should prepare themselves for the AI race. Notably, Nuria Oliver, Bernhard Schölkopf…Feb 9Feb 9
Published inGeek CultureMachine Psychology — Exploring A Paradox in Revealed PreferencesMy very modest goals in a working paper titled A Paradox in Machine Preference (pdf) include the invigoration of one languishing field and…Nov 24, 2024Nov 24, 2024
A New Way to Detect Causality in Time-Series: Interview with Alejandro Rodriguez DominguezI virtually sat down with Alejandro Rodriguez Dominguez to discuss his recent paper with Om Hari Yadav on causality detection. I’m always…Nov 1, 20243Nov 1, 20243
Published inGeek CultureA New Generative AI Competition in Eleven DimensionsThere’s a new 11-dimensional game you can play by running this notebook. The task is distributional prediction of next week’s financial…Mar 23, 2024Mar 23, 2024
So Long and Thanks for all the Phish — Reflections of a Content CreatorThis is a bit of a medium good-bye, I suspect.Oct 4, 20231Oct 4, 20231
A Gentle Introduction to Stochastic Portfolio Theory (and its Inverse)I made a brief comment about Stochastic Portfolio Theory that sparked some interest and a post or two by Alberto Bueno-Guerrero recently…Jul 22, 2023Jul 22, 2023
