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Prediction toolsShort description: From the page Here are some applets that give you a sense of the kinds of things that Super Crunching can help predict. Use them at your own risk (The lawyer in me feels compelled to emphasize that I make no representation as to their accuracy). By fredericbaud at 2007-09-01 04:46 | Articles and Whitepapers | Prediction Market | English | Research Institute or Sister community | login or register to post comments | flag this | 53201 reads | 1 point
Evolutionary AlgorithmsEvolutionary algorithms now surpass human designers.28 July 2007, NewScientist.com news service, Paul Marks CHARLES DARWIN's theory of evolution has been the source of much controversy since its publication in 1859, most recently involving the intelligent design (ID) lobby in the US. Now the theory is fuelling another debate, although for once the battle lines have nothing to do with religion. Instead of pitting God against science, the emerging spat centres on evolutionary algorithms (EAs), which mimic the processes of natural selection and random mutation by "breeding", selecting and re-breeding possible designs to produce the fittest ones. read more on NewScientist.com ![]() Avida, NetLogoThey are working on AVIDA right over here at Michigan State University
You know, I've one some models with very simple agent based modelling tools, like NetLogo, that have made some amazingly accurate predictions about things, like wealth distribution, hoarding vs. spending and/or sharing etc You can use surprisingly simple tools to test models, so long as you can see Simple Rules in complex data sets. It is the simple rules that make predicting complex behavior possible
Sam Rose Social Synergy Web Weblog More about algorithmsGordon Gekko makes way for trading software30 May 2007, NewScientist.com news service, Robert Matthews BRAD BAILEY was visiting the trading floor of an investment bank in New York City when he first noticed it. As a former Wall Street trader, he should have felt at home amid all the screens, phones and bustle of billions of dollars in trades. But that was just it: there wasn't any bustle. In fact, there were hardly any traders. "You could hear a pin drop," he recalls. Then it sank in: machines had taken over the role of people and computer servers don't make any noise. There's a quiet revolution happening all over the financial world. Gone are the days of Gordon Gekko lookalikes screaming obscenities and dumping a loss-making stock onto an unsuspecting market. Investors have realised that the processing speed and sheer volume of trades a computer can make can help them to outwit the sharpest of dealers. As a result, they are investing heavily in what has fast become an arms race between investors. Their goal is to develop the best "algorithmic trading" systems - software that helps decide which trades are the most profitable, and then does the deals. Ten years ago, algo-trading was almost non-existent, but according to a recent report by Bailey, now at the Boston-based consulting firm Aite Group, one-third of all trading decisions in US markets are now made by machines. He predicts that by 2010 more than half will be done this way. At Deutsche Bank in London, over 70 per cent of a category of foreign currency trades, called "spot trades", are now carried out without human intervention every day. All this will have an impact on more than just high-rolling investors. Even if you don't own any shares you can bet that millions of those owned by your pension fund are already being bought and sold using "algo" trading techniques. read more on Scientist.com
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