PinnedPredicting CryptoPunk Prices: The Case for JPEGsWe trained a deep neural network to predict NFT prices.Aug 31, 20212521Aug 31, 20212521
DeepNFTValue: Machine Learning Driven Crypto Asset PricingThe Mission: Industry-Standard NFT PricingApr 4, 20222601Apr 4, 20222601
Moving to SubstackWhen I published my first story on Medium, we got 55K views. Over the years that has dwindled.Nov 6, 20217928Nov 6, 20217928
Spoofs, Wash Sales, and the Coase Theorem of NFTsAssets find their way to diamond hand owners. The community detects spoofs, wash sales, and other fake transactions. Borrow against NFTs.Nov 1, 2021151Nov 1, 2021151
Resorts World Las Vegas North Strip: Hotel, Poker, Restaurant ReviewIt was great to play poker live in Vegas again, for the first time in two years. Last time I was here for “Doyle’s Game” on PokerGO in…Nov 1, 2021122Nov 1, 2021122
Ego Death and Brazilian Jiu JitsuSomething happened on the mats in Brooklyn.Feb 1, 20211781Feb 1, 20211781
The best end-of-year posts and predictions for 2021 — future of Tech, AI, Miami, etcIn an effort to avoid real work — anything that leads to git commit — I’ve been training BJJ, watching BJJ videos, and reading good stuff.Jan 18, 2021153Jan 18, 2021153
Mo’ data, mo’ problems: deep learning NLP into 2021Deep NLP went mainstream in 2020 with OpenAI’s GPT-3; where is it heading?Jan 4, 20211012Jan 4, 20211012
Deep NLP: Predictions for 2020Augmentation, selection, RL, Transformer beyond text, and of course more and more scaling.Dec 4, 20199Dec 4, 20199
The Best Deep Natural Language Papers You Should Read — BERT, GPT-2 and looking forwardTransformer-type language models seem to be breaking NLP benchmarks every week. What do I need to know to keep up?Dec 3, 20192532Dec 3, 20192532
The AI Talent ShortageIt’s early 2018 and a Bloomberg piece is making the rounds — Just How Shallow is the Artificial Intelligence Talent Pool?Feb 15, 20184Feb 15, 20184
The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs [📚 review]This book was recommended on one of the business podcasts that I listen to. It probably was Masters in Business on Bloomberg radio. Barry…Sep 4, 2017Sep 4, 2017
A Man for All Markets: 📚 ReviewNote: for those who prefer listening to reading, Bloomberg’s Barry Ritholtz did a great interview with Ed Thorpe on last week’s Masters in…May 15, 2017May 15, 2017
AI will be good for jobs (and humans)Everyone is saying that artificial intelligence will destroy jobs. I think they’ve got it wrong.Apr 10, 2017Apr 10, 2017
Short Book Review: Black Edge (inside story of SAC Capital) by Sheelah Kolhatkar 💸Last month I flew to California with five books. The first one I finished was Black Edge.Apr 9, 2017Apr 9, 2017
CMU’s Libratus Bluffs its way to Victory in #BrainsVsAI Poker Match 🤖After three week and 120,000 hands of heads-up No Limit Hold’em poker, the computer showed us who’s boss.Feb 1, 20171Feb 1, 20171
Machine Learning for Baseball ⚾ (my story)A year after I left Google in late 2008 — I traveled around for a bit, got involved in a messy startup, etc — I was looking for a new…Jan 30, 20171Jan 30, 20171
[Poker #BrainsVsAI update] Does the bot ever bluff? 🤖🎲💸Last week I watched Libratus, the poker AI designed by Carnegie Mellon graduate student Noam Brown and CS Professor Tuomas Sandholm, play…Jan 18, 2017Jan 18, 2017
Published inHackerNoon.comAI vs poker pros (advantage 🤖)(Read my followup story for an update on the match. This is a good place to start, and my predictions are looking pretty good, 2/3 of the…Jan 13, 20176Jan 13, 20176