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mrpopo on Nov 28, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lessons learned building an ML trading system

> But it's intellectually interesting, so people work on it.

No. It's a financially sound way to use time, so people work on it. Anything can be intellectually interesting.

What kind of academic research does not create value? And if so, maybe it deserves to be criticized the same way.

emteycz on Nov 28, 2019 [–]

> What kind of academic research does not create value? And if so, maybe it deserves to be criticized the same way.

I have friends that study social behavior of ants. Is there any way to apply that?

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