#105 - Dr. MICHAEL OLIVER [CSO - Numerai]
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Access Numerai here: http://numer.ai/mlst Michael Oliver is the Chief Scientist at Numerai, a hedge fund that crowdsources machine learning models from data scientists. He has a PhD in Computational Neuroscience from UC Berkeley and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Allen Institute for Brain Science before joining Numerai in 2020. He is also the host of Numerai Quant Club, a YouTube series where he discusses Numerai’s research, data and challenges. YT version: https://youtu.be/61s8lLU7sFg TOC: [00:00:00] Introduction to Michael and Numerai [00:02:03] Understanding / new Bing [00:22:47] Quant vs Neuroscience [00:36:43] Role of language in cognition and planning, and subjective... [00:45:47] Boundaries in finance modelling [00:48:00] Numerai [00:57:37] Aggregation systems [01:00:52] Getting started on Numeral [01:03:21] What models are people using [01:04:23] Numerai Problem Setup [01:05:49] Regimes in financial data and quant talk [01:11:18] Esoteric approaches used on Numeral? [01:13:59] Curse of dimensionality [01:16:32] Metrics [01:19:10] Outro References: Growing Neural Cellular Automata (Alexander Mordvintsev) https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/ A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (Jeff Hawkins) https://www.amazon.fr/Thousand-Brains-New-Theory-Intelligence/dp/1541675819 Perceptual Neuroscience: The Cerebral Cortex (Vernon B. Mountcastle) https://www.amazon.ca/Perceptual-Neuroscience-Cerebral-Vernon-Mountcastle/dp/0674661885 Numerai Quant Club with Michael Oliver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLIxarbDXuQ&list=PLz3D6SeXhT3tTu8rhZmjwDZpkKi-UPO1F Numerai YT channel https://www.youtube.com/@Numerai/featured Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5
