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A Recipe for the 2008 Financial Crisis
May 5, 2015 | StuartReid | 13 CommentsWarning: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is no longer supported, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home/customer/www/turingfinance.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/latex/latex.php on line 47
In 2008 when the market crashed I was 16-years old and visiting London for the very first time. At that age I was already obsessed with the markets. Feeling confident that I could understand the crash after having read the classic investment books such ... Read More
Agent-based Computational Economic Models
January 13, 2014 | StuartReid | 3 CommentsEconomists subscribe to many often contradictory schools of thought. This results in businesses and governments adopting economic policies whose consequences are neither agreed upon nor understood. Furthermore, because the economy is actually a complex adaptive system most traditional economic ... Read More
BRICs Economic Forecasting using Neural Networks
September 18, 2013 | StuartReid | 6 CommentsThis weekend I finished an interesting research assignment in which I used five computational techniques to train artificial neural networks to forecast the 2011 GDP growth rates for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS nations). The ... Read More
Perfect Imperfection, Agent Based Models
August 16, 2013 | StuartReid | 12 CommentsWhen I was 17 years old the Boy Scouts of America invited nine international delegates and I to present at a conference and partake in a 7-day 100 kilometer hike through the Rocky Mountains on the Philmont Scout Ranch. In the week prior ... Read More