And you find that a compelling reason to tokenize it? I don't.
Very compelling. Without staking the hedge fund doesn't have any knowledge of how confident you are in your estimates. If you can put the value of a coin up against your confidence estimates then you are giving that information in a very real and binding way.
Do you have another way data scientists can give estimates of their model's ability to do better than chance and be held accountable for that estimate? Additional prize pool based on giving good reliability estimates seems like an excellent way to do it.
The tokens are not the value of the numerai fund itself. They are merely a tool for the staking process.
Yes...I remember a few years ago, with one of the algorithm testing sites, a group basically just submitted 20-30 pseudo-random predictions. One of them ended up winning, but it wasn't like the team actually had a useful algorithm, they were just playing the system because betting was free.
Re:AI Hedge Fund Goes Live on Ethereum
by isubkhankulov on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @06:13PM
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why not stake with bitcoin or ether?
Because they can't mint and award it to users. NMR is only earned by performing well.
Re:AI Hedge Fund Goes Live on Ethereum
by isubkhankulov on Thursday June 22, 2017 @05:46PM
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theyre listing it on poloniex FYI
Re:AI Hedge Fund Goes Live on Ethereum
by chrissoundz on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @06:03PM
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If anyone is interested. Software Engineering Daily did a podcast about Numerai not too long ago, with one of their employees.
The data you work with from Nunerai is obfuscated, so you can't take it directly to the market.
It is an interesting no-risk way to evaluate models/algorithms. A lot of people are there to learn on a tough problem.
Edit: The reason for the coin is to allow data scientists to give confidence information about their models. There is an additional payout in USD associated with NMR staking (currently an extra ~$4000/mo for the most consistent models).