Very nice!
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Jonathan Nitzan <[email protected]> wrote: > The Capitalist Algorithm: Reflections on Robert Harris' "The Fear Index" > by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler > Montreal and Jerusalem, March 2014 > > ABSTRACT:Alexander Hoffmann is a physicist-turned-financier, a refugee > from the particle accelerator complex in CERN who now runs a $10-billion > algorithmic hedge fund from nearby Geneva. The fund is managed by VIXAL, > Hoffmann's machine learning algorithm, and is incredibly successful. The > company's statistics boast a consistently huge Alfa - a measure > indicating by how much the fund beats the average and exceeds the normal > rate of return - and the world's biggest oligarchs and financial > institutions are salivating at the mere thought of being allowed to > invest in it. Managing their money has made Hoffmann very rich. In just > a few years, he has seen his net worth rise from nothing to over a > billion dollars. He has acquired a huge mansion, complete with a > beautiful wife and a library full of antique books. There is no limit to > what he is set to achieve. But things are not exactly what they seem to be. > > FULL TEXT: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/393/ > > *** > > Recent additions and updates to the Bichler & Nitzan Archives: > http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/perl/latest > To unsubscribe, reply to this email with "unsubscribe" in the subject > field. > > -- > Jonathan Nitzan > Political Science || Social and Political Thought > York University > 4700 Keele St. > Toronto, Ontario, M3J-1P3 > Canada > > Voice: (416) 736-2100, ext. 88822 > Fax: (416) 736-5686 > Email: nitzan at yorku.ca > > The Bichler & Nitzan Archives:http://bnarchives.net > Capital as Power:http://capitalaspower.com > RECASP (journal):http://uow.edu.au/arts/research/recasp/index.html > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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