Comments on: Cambridge Analytica* is coming for you https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/04/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/ He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. Tue, 11 Dec 2018 05:53:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: Lor https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/04/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-422 Sun, 15 Apr 2018 23:48:57 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/04/12/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-422 Twitter is a make believe world, a matrix. It amps up noise, and then the world feeds on it, mistakenly for reality.

Its fuel is instant gratification.

]]> By: Horth https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/04/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-423 Fri, 13 Apr 2018 18:49:47 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/04/12/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-423 Suppose you are football player and you have 1 mil. Twit followers. By all accounts, you are an "influencer". Then every celebrity in every field is an "influencer".

]]> By: Max Cantor https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/04/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-424 Fri, 13 Apr 2018 18:44:22 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/04/12/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-424 Using Bayesian statistics, I suppose. Perhaps a computer scientist can help us here ?

]]> By: Carl https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/04/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-426 Fri, 13 Apr 2018 18:39:46 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/04/12/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-426 How do you mine for sentiment on Twtr, which is a pile of crap “sentiment abound” with unhappy people ?

]]> By: Lynn https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/04/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-427 Fri, 13 Apr 2018 18:39:46 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/04/12/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-427 The question is, how do you gauge for sentiment ? Across pentabytes of audio and word data ?

]]> By: Max Cantor https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/04/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-428 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:43:31 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/04/12/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-428 Thanks, CS. Link to Ed Thorp's review: http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/11/04700235/0470023511.pdf. He broke even on Black Monday 1987 and was up for that month. Astonishing.

Leroy Satchel Paige quote “Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you” is timeless.

]]> By: Jack https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/04/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-429 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:34:05 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/04/12/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-429 Subscribe to Quantpedia, you will find some good resources. It's like Wikipedia for quant knowledge.

]]> By: Lara Jones https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/04/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-430 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:28:21 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/04/12/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-430 Thanks.

]]> By: CS https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/04/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-431 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:27:46 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/04/12/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-431 In the quant world, you need to be able to do modeling with copulas, you need to be able to do stochastic volatility option pricing. You may refer here.

]]> By: Lara Jones https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2018/04/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-432 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:20:28 +0000 http://wallstreetdealmaker.com/index.php/2018/04/12/cambridge-analytica-is-coming-for-you/#comment-432 How do quant funds generate algos ?

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