Money for nothing and the algos for (almost) free

Submitted by Xilodyne on Sun, 05/21/2017 - 10:39

I've been regularly monitoring the machine learning job postings on upwork.com and absolutely love some of the requests coming through, especially those focusing on stock picking or FX (forex / currency exchange) prediction.  And they want it cheap.  Which begs the question that if you had the ability to create a learning algorithm that could make stock predictions and you could make money on it, would you really sell it to someone for $100?

Here's a typical one: