The challenge facing artificial intelligence

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John McCarthy (1927-2011) is considered by many to be one of the fathers of the field of artificial intelligence. He was the creator of the LISP programming language; and founder of the artificial intelligence laboratory at Stanford University. In this Thinking Allowed interview, I conducted with McCarthy back in the 1990s, he describes the challenges that he sees facing the field of artificial intelligence.

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Book Three: Trading With The News

Learn about a news-based trading system that yielded a back-tested, average annualized, compounded return from 2000 to 2011 of 58.6%.

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Book Two: Technical Analysis

Learn about the "trend recalling" algorithm that yielded researchers a simulated annual return of greater than 400% in multiple tests.

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Learn the strategy, based on analysts' revised forecasts, that yielded researchers an average of 1.13% - 2.19% profit per trade, for trades lasting one to two days?

Learn how certain analysts' recommendations, following brokerage hosted investment conferences, yielded profits of over 3% during a two-day holding period?

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James P. Driscoll, PhD, investor

Statistically Sound Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading of Financial Instruments by David Aronson (software included)

Evidence-Based Technical Analysis by David Aronson

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