Technology

The Pricelessness of Attention

Attention is money. In today’s online age, Companies will do anything for a user’s  attention. This competition for people’s valable attention has become so important that a new term has been coined to describe it – the “attention economy.” In general if there’s attention, money will follow. This has always been true – if a …

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AI is Revolutionizing the Healthcare Industry. This is how.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a term used to describe an advanced problem-solving process computers can use to perform tasks with human-like logic processes. Although this is a relatively new technology, the potential this technology brings is very high. Recently, AI usage in medical fields has been greatly increasing in the development of preventative medication and …

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An Introduction to Scratch – Our Club’s Community Event

I am the president of a club at Mountain View High School called the Study Tools at Mountain View club. Clubs at Mountain View have opportunities to host community events, and my club and I decided that we should try to do one since it would be beneficial to not only increasing teamwork amongst us, …

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Backtesting Paired with Machine Learning in Stocks

Backtesting is a powerful tool that can be used to help facilitate future decisions based off of past information. According to an article on Medium, “Backtesting is the process of applying a trading strategy, predictive model, or analytical model to historical data to evaluate its accuracy and performance.” Put simply, backtesting is an analyzation method …

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Amazon Machine Learning Tools Increase the Power of Hypothesis Testing

Machine learning is the use and development of computer systems that are able to learn and adapt without following explicit instructions through the use of algorithms and statistical models to analyze and draw inferences from patterns in data. Nowadays, machine learning is widely used, such as in the YouTube algorithm to give the user videos …

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Intro to Financial Engineering

The definition of financial engineering is the “use of mathematical techniques to solve financial problems.” Financial engineering draws on the skills from fields of computer science, statistics, economics, and applied mathematics in order to solve financial problems and to create new financial products.  Financial engineering is being used to create new investment tools and products …

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