Actually one more point I’d like to make — even though I just told you that you should just try this and see if it works, there’s another model that seems to approximate what you’re trying to do a little more closely than plain old RNNs. Take a look at what people are accomplishing with WaveNets…

Definitely some interesting thoughts here. I too have wondered whether there are underlying patterns in the stock prices themselves that could be teased out with the right deep learning model. A lot of people are quick to point out that correlating the prices to something else (news, tweets, etc) would be more likely to succeed, but no one actually…

One thing we’ve noticed working on chatbots is that it’s very difficult to get the requirements from your clients/product-owners. You can’t put together a bunch of nice mockups and talk them over. The best we’ve found is some annotated example conversations. But even that leaves significantly more power in the developers’ hands for how the…

Fixing Your Daily Stand-up Meeting

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