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At this first presentation since their acquisition by Intel, Amir Khosrowshahi, co-founder of Nervana, was sweetly spunky “We provide tools for you to weaponize against each other, and hopefully make money for Intel.”

He gave a good overview of deep learning applications in finance, with examples in order book substructure analysis and semantic sentiment analysis

From the AI in Fintech Forum, hosted by the Stanford Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (“We do big math”).

One response to “Nervana after Intel — Finance Applications for Deep Learning”

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    jurvetson

    Intel is pushing the Nervana chip forward… with 10x as many multipliers as NVIDIA and a tensor-based instruction set (matrix multiply is a single instruction), integer math and a custom mesh interconnect, all optimized for deep learning"Intel is committed to build this neural network chip for you to get into your terminator robots."

    After getting a PhD in string theory, Amir went to LTCM and then Goldman Sachs. People laughed at him at first because he had not heard of the Federal Reserve. So, he was assigned to credit derivative trades and "almost wiped out civilization."

    And here is an earlier blog post on Nervana, with Amir at the centerIntelligence Inside: Congratulations to Intel on their acquisition of Nervana

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