Since I started blogging almost a year and a half ago, I have been following many blogs. I managed to find some blogs dealing with computational linguistics and natural language processing, but they were few and far between. Since then, I’ve discovered quite a few NLP people that have entered the blagoblag. Here is a [...]
Archive for 24 January 2009
Movie idea #7210
Posted: 24 January 2009 in UncategorizedTags: cliches, creative commons, genetic algorithms, hackers, movie ideas, movies, stock market
The main character is a geeky computer programmer playing around with genetic algorithms. He comes up with a representation that lets him evolve intelligent agents for market trading that become wildly successful. He makes over a billion dollars in a very short period of time, like say, a week. He shuts them down, in nervousness [...]
