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I was at an “all things data and analytics benchmarking” event last week. It was fabulous, most major banks were represented, also the hottest of hot hedge funds, a chunk of exchanges, and some of not...
What is RAG? Here's the simple 30 second definition, A deeper dive will follow. RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) is the buzziest word on the GenAI internet right now, more jargon to confuse the un...
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I recently wrote a Finextra piece entitled 3 GenAI Use Cases for Capital Markets; The Power of the Vector. In it, I discussed the increasing importance of the so-called vector database and vectors mo...
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It is rare to see quants talk about trading systems and strategies so publicly. Recently Avi Palley, Lead Quantitative Strategist in eFX Trading at Wells Fargo and Carlos Zendejas, also a one-time Qua...
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