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GeoffNN • today at 11:53 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Cofounder of The Forecasting Company here - disagree on this. The models now work quite well and are in prod at a number of places, including very sophisticated places - quant funds, top retail cos etc


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beernet • today at 12:03 PM

You are telling me quant funds prefer a heavy-weight and slow ANN to a fast, specialized model? Maybe in totally non-critical environments, otherwise it's simply too slow, regardless of performance.

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mstkllah • today at 12:09 PM

Do those places also include companies focused on private markets?

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