So forget the ants from Pi. You know, the ones that produced the stock-market-predicting, answer-to-life-having goo? Ya those. They’re so a decade ago. All you need now to predict the stock market is Charlie Sheen’s #winning and what Justin Bieber is eating for lunch. Really.
This reminds me of a flex-coded, corporate version the machine in Darren Aronofsky’s Pi. Only with fewer ants creating the special sauce (sorry for the spoiler but I think 12 years is past the statute of limitations). Seriously though, data-mining and trend-spotting algorithms are big business in todays T.I.A. world. And that’s fine – the [...]