Tag: AI
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Building a Personal Quant Agent
A personal quant agent is much closer to reality than it was a few years ago. I’ve been thinking about whether an AI agent could help manage and improve my existing investment portfolio. Not by…
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RareRead #004: The Modernity Machine
We tend to locate the birth of the modern world in the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, or the Scientific Revolution. Venkatesh Rao asks us to rewind the clock to the 13th century and reconsider what actually…
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RareRead #002: Who Will Taste the Cherries?
A particular kind of technological optimism assumes that anything worth knowing can eventually be measured, modelled, and optimised. Liam Spradlin calls it computism and begins his argument in a Silicon Valley test kitchen where engineers…
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RareRead #001: Lost in the Good
More writing is being published than anyone can read, and the problem is getting worse as the cost of producing and publishing it keeps falling. Somewhere in that growing stream are essays and articles that…