Visiting in November

Hi Jeffrey,

I hope you've been well!

I'll be in the US in early November for the BICA conference at MIT (Nov 7-9; I guess Joscha will attend as well)... and probably stay in the US for a little bit after that...

I wonder if we could meet up at some point during my US visit -- either in Boston if you'll be there around that time, or in New York, or anywhere else that you prefer...

It would be good to show you some of the stuff we've been up to with OpenCog, if you can spare a couple hours. Lots going on ;) ... (due to the efforts of the team in Hong Kong, plus some of the guys in Ethiopia...) ... our NLP/reasoning work is advancing quite a bit, as well as some video game world and robotics stuff...

As an aside, our AI hedge fund project looks like it's going to go forward and we'll probably start trading early next year. We had been struggling with HK equity data, but shifting to US equities and global futures (in the last couple months) has given us much nicer historical prediction accuracies (largely due to the lower transaction costs on these markets). Next step is to run backtests on these other markets, and then try it all on data from 2012-2014, which we have held out as "virgin data" for last-ditch testing... and then if that works, trade real money... I have been splitting my time between OpenCog and the trading project and am sick to death of quantitative finance and eager to shift more time to OpenCog; but I would rather ramp down my time on the finance project on a successful note (i.e. after getting a tradable system working), and at the moment it seems to be going in that direction...

Thanks,

Ben

Ben Goertzel, PhD
http://goertzel.org

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