Numerai
medium.com/numerai · Company blog · on HN since 2017
Numerai is a quant hedge fund that crowdsources stock predictions from data scientists, paying them in its NMR cryptocurrency.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for the crypto-paid hedge fund model; one points out its data is obfuscated by a closed-source method, not standard encryption.
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Most-shared posts
- 1A New Cryptocurrency for Coordinating Artificial Intelligence on Numerai7 people · 37 points · first shared 2017 · 4 comments on HN
- 2Crowdsourcing the future3 people · 6 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 3Encrypted Data for Efficient Markets3 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 4Building the Last Hedge Fund – Introducing Numerai Signals2 people · 21 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 5Numerai's Master Plan2 people · 8 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 6Numerai is giving away $1M in NMR in new Erasure grants program2 people · 8 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 7AI Hedge Fund Goes Live on Ethereum1 people · 195 points · first shared 2017 · 70 comments on HN
- 8Erasure: a breakthrough protocol to create unstoppable data feeds1 people · 27 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 9Crowdsourced Hedge Fund Numerai Outperforms Market Neutral Hedge Funds by 29%1 people · 14 points · first shared 2021 · 1 comments on HN
- 10ErasureBay: Erasure’s marketplace for information of any kind1 people · 10 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 11Numerai becomes the most well-paid data science tournament on the planet1 people · 4 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 12Erasure's unique architecture using EIP-1167 clone factories1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 13Redesigning Ethereum’s Most Used Token1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 14Erasure Quant1 people · 1 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 15How to scale 16x in 6 months on ethereum 174105d3b1d31 people · first shared 2018
What HN people wrote when they linked it
lkowalcz · 2017-08-07
Worth pointing out that Numerai actually doesn't use encryption in any standard sense (including structure-preserving encryption), but instead seems to be using some heuristic method of obfuscating their data.
Their (closed-source) method of obfuscating their data apparently does have the property that it preserves the structure of the data, but calling it "structure-preserving encryption" is misleading imo since it risks confusing it with standard notions of encryption and structure-preserving encryption which have much stronger security guarantees.
(Their marketing seems to encourage this conflation by, for example, citing academic advances in standard notions of homomorphic encryption and SPE and implying that these advances have enabled Numerai's technology)
https://medium.com/numerai/encrypted-data-for-efficient-markets-fffbe9…
alexmingoia · 2020-11-03
Numerai hedge fund buys data anonymously, and pays you in cryptocurrency based on its performance: https://medium.com/numerai/building-the-last-hedge-fund-introducing-nu…
kumikoda · 2018-08-01
Numerai | All Engineering | San Francisco | Onsite
slyfox @ numer.ai
https://angel.co/numerai/jobs
Numerai is a quant hedge fund with a distributed research platform designed specifically for AIs. We are a small team looking for ambitious individuals interested in money, decentralization and AI.
Tech stack: Elixir, Go, Python, Javascript, Postgres, GraphQL, AWS, Ethereum
More info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa6L2UHTm2g
https://medium.com/numerai/how-to-scale-16x-in-6-months-on-ethereum-17…
https://medium.com/numerai/a-new-cryptocurrency-for-coordinating-artif…
sandGorgon · 2017-09-06
is one of these used by Numerai ? https://medium.com/numerai/encrypted-data-for-efficient-markets-fffbe9…