From: Ben Goertzel

From: Ben Goertzel To: "jeffrey E." <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Visiting in November Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:09:44 +0000 Great! Do you want to arrange the particular date now, or should I ping you about it in a couple weeks? I will probably need to buy plane tickets for the trip around Oct 1, and it would be good to incorporate knowledge of the date of our meeting to trip planning... Thanks a lot, Ben On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:47 PM, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote: yes look forward to it On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Ben Goertzel < > wrote: Hi Jeffrey, I hope you've been well ! I'll be in the US in early November for the RICA conference at MIT (Nov 7-9; I guess Joscha will attend as well)... and probably stay in the US for a little bit after that... I wonder if we could meet up at some point during my US visit -- either in Boston if you'll be there around that time, or in New York, or anywhere else that you prefer... It would be good to show you some of the stuff we've been up to with OpenCog, if you can spare a couple hours. Lots going on ;) ... (due to the efforts of the team in Hong Kong, plus some of the guys in Ethiopia...) ... our NLP/reasoning work is advancing quite a bit, as well as some video game world and robotics stuff... As an aside, our AI hedge fund project looks like it's going to go forward and we'll probably start trading early next year. We had been struggling with HK equity data, but shifting to US equities and global futures (in the last couple months) has given us much nicer historical prediction accuracies (largely due to the lower transaction costs on these markets). Next step is to run backtests on these other markets, and then try it all on data from 2012-2014, which we have held out as "virgin data" for last-ditch testing... and then if that works, trade real money.... I have been splitting my time between OpenCog and the trading project and am sick to death of quantitative finance and eager to shift more time to OpenCog; but I would rather ramp down my time on the finance project on a successful note (i.e. after getting a tradable system working), and at the moment it seems to be going in that direction... Thanks, Ben Ben Goertzel, PhD httithgoertzel.org EFTA00869354 "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. James T. Kirk "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free our minds" -- Robert Nesta Marley please note The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to [email protected], and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. James T. Kirk "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free our minds" -- Robert Nesta Marley EFTA00869355