By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) We have just passed the one-year mark of our Five Questions interview series. When we first launched the series, I wasn’t sure how it would go. I didn’t know if we could get the types of interesting guests I was hoping for. I also wasn’t sure if I could ask the quality questions it would take to make the interviews interesting (I still am not sure about that). Despite the apprehension… Read More
A new technology called continual learning (CL) enables computers to apply accumulated knowledge to make better decisions in the future and is considered “one of the hottest threads of artificial intelligence (AI) research.” This according to an article in CFA Institute. “It may prove to be the single most disruptive technology for investment management,” the article says, adding that CL may be better able to apply objectivity to the investment decision-making process than humans do.… Read More