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Richard Walker
May 22, 20244 min read
Dodge City Data Duel: AI vs. The Unarmed Cowboy
(Spoiler: It's a Draw!) What was true in Dodge City in 1870 is true today While the "Wild West" is often romanticized as a time of...
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Richard Walker
May 20, 202410 min read
Pressing Issues: AI's Byte-Sized Impact on News & Journalism
Journalism's AI Dilemma: Unlocking Potential Amid a Copyright Quagmire The Future of Journalism in the Age of AI Can artificial...
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Richard Walker
May 11, 20247 min read
Why other firms' AI projects fail: And why yours won't
From Shipwrecks to Success: Captain Your AI Project Beyond the Bermuda Triangle of Failures AI model evolution gone wrong Many AI...
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Richard Walker
May 8, 20249 min read
Ssssssuperior Sequence Modeling: Mamba's Charm Will Hypnotize Your AI Applications!
The Rise of Mamba: A New Architecture for Sequence Modeling As large language models (LLMs) continue to advance, researchers are...
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Richard Walker
May 7, 20248 min read
Beyond The AI Frenzy: The Race for Dominance in Large Language Models
Riding the Wave of AI Hype: ChatGPT and the Emergence of AI Titans Just 18 months ago, ChatGPT, OpenAI’s chatbot, caused a frenzy in the...
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Richard Walker
Apr 29, 20246 min read
Your business, Jarvis-powered.
Four Strategies for Making Money with AI in 2024 The Emergence of AI in Business Ventures As we venture further into the digital age, the...
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Richard Walker
Apr 29, 20248 min read
Taming the Bulls and Bears: Can Machine Learning Learn to play the Stock-Market game?
Harnessing Machine Learning for Stock Market Predictions: Navigating the Random Walk The Quest for Predicting Stock Prices: Machine...
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Richard Walker
Apr 29, 20247 min read
Clearing House Rules: The Balancing Act of Central Clearing in the Repo Market
Central Clearing in the Repo Market Balancing Benefits and Risks The Integral Role of Central Clearing for Repo Market Resilience The...
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Richard Walker
Apr 29, 20248 min read
Token Gestures: The transformation of financial assets
Unlocking Value in the Digital Age: The Tokenization Transformation in Financial Services A Gateway to Efficiency and Innovation In the...
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Richard Walker
Jul 26, 20224 min read
Accessing the TPI is fine, but sooner or later you run out of somebody else’s money...
Executive Summary On September 25th Italy will elect its 67th government since the second world war This comes at a time of soaring...
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Richard Walker
Jul 19, 20227 min read
Central Banking - Mind the gap
Executive Summary Central banks seek to shepherd the economy through cyclical shifts If an economy runs too hot inflation can take hold,...
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Richard Walker
Jul 12, 20226 min read
If you wanted to start your journey, I would start from anywhere but here...
Summary Debt to GDP levels have risen to historically high levels in many countries The UK, much like others in the G7, has borrowed in...
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Richard Walker
Jul 6, 20226 min read
Skating away on the thin ice of a new day...
Summary The UK's current Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, is under siege. In early June he survived a vote of 'no confidence' with 148 MPs...
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Richard Walker
Jun 28, 20227 min read
Roll-on Italy.
Summary With over €674Bn of debt maturing in 2022 and 2023 and secular rises in interest rates, Italy has been in the news. The ECB is...
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Richard Walker
Jun 24, 20227 min read
Inflation vs Fragmentation: A very European dilemma
Summary In a previous post we examined the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy; specifically the use of QE and short end rate changes to...
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Richard Walker
Jun 23, 20223 min read
Introduction to Neural Networks. Pt1 - The Neuron
Neural networks are a popular AI solution. They are at the heart of facial recognition, speech processing, autonomous driving, medical...
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Richard Walker
Jun 22, 20226 min read
The Federal Reserve rate rise: Some historical context.
Summary We examine the Federal' Reserve's mandate for price stability. We look at the track record of US price stability since the mid...
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Richard Walker
Jun 22, 20223 min read
Inflation Targeting
With Inflation and Central Bank rate rises making the front pages again, we thought it was worthwhile to publish a short primer on...
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Richard Walker
Jun 13, 20224 min read
Are we an AI Company?
In the past few years, AI has been everywhere. From self-driving cars to voice assistants, from image recognition to language...
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Richard Walker
May 10, 202213 min read
Introduction to Neural Networks. Pt5 - Backpropagation
Backpropagation is How Neural Networks 'Learn'. How to train a neural network, by tweaking its weights and biases during training This is...
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