{"id":61332,"date":"2017-12-13T00:33:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T05:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=61332"},"modified":"2017-12-13T00:33:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T05:33:27","slug":"hedge-fund-founder-and-amazon-researcher-build-a-better-ai-stock-picker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2017\/hedge-fund-founder-and-amazon-researcher-build-a-better-ai-stock-picker.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Founder and Amazon Researcher Build a Better AI Stock Picker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) A hedge fund manager and a computer scientist have found a promising new way to use artificial intelligence to pick stocks over longer periods than the typical machine-driven approaches favored by Wall Street.   In tests, John Alberg, co-founder of hedge fund firm Euclidean Technologies, and Zachary Lipton, a researcher at Amazon.com Inc.\u2019s AI lab, generated 17.1 percent annualized returns from their technique, compared with 14.4 percent using a standard statistical model, according to a paper they discussed during a Friday workshop at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference, an annual gathering of experts in the field. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/village-us.albourne.com\/village\/pub\/2292240\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) A hedge fund manager and a computer scientist have found a promising new way to use artificial intelligence to pick stocks over longer periods than the typical machine-driven approaches favored by Wall Street. In tests, John Alberg, co-founder of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61333,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61332\/revisions\/61333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}