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Re:Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with... by rand_r on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @04:13PM (#13592858)
The problem is understanding data. A human can learn a new word's meaning by reading its definition in a dictionary; a computer can't.
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Re:Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with... by NikolaeVarius on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @04:36PM (#13593057)
It's a dictionary. I'm pretty sure a computer can look it up faster than a human can.
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Re:Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with... by rand_r on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @05:34PM (#13593592)
Access to raw text is not the hard part.
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Re:Goldman Sachs automated trading replaces 600 traders with... by eon1 on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @05:18PM (#13593451)
Even so, that doesn't stop one human helping the computer to understand, and thus replace x more humans.
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