{"id":4873,"date":"2013-04-10T17:30:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T23:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonapollovoss.local\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2018-09-21T02:04:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T06:04:11","slug":"24-april-2013-jason-apollo-voss-is-a-panelist-at-the-battle-of-the-quants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/2013\/04\/10\/24-april-2013-jason-apollo-voss-is-a-panelist-at-the-battle-of-the-quants\/","title":{"rendered":"24 April 2013: Jason Apollo Voss is a Panelist at the Battle of the Quants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Right here on the What My Intuition Tells Me Now blog I frequently criticized quantitative finance for its disconnection from reality. \u00a0In particular, I decry the extreme prejudice to favor analytical, as opposed to creative and intuitive, thinking. \u00a0So imagine my great pleasure at being asked to be a panelist at the forthcoming <a title=\"Battle of the Quants New York City 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/battleofthequants.net\/agenda\/\">Battle of the Quants in New York City on 24 April 2013<\/a>\u00a0at 10:45am at the <a title=\"Museum of Mathematics\" href=\"http:\/\/momath.org\/\">Museum of Mathematics<\/a>. \u00a0Specifically, I will be a part of the &#8220;Main Event&#8221; &#8211; the &#8220;Man vs. Machine&#8221; debate &#8211; taking the side of the power of human reason and wisdom in investing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I hope that you will be rooting me on from wherever you are. \u00a0In the meantime, sate yourself with some of these selections from my writing on the subject of man vs. machine:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a title=\"Solely Analytical Methods Are Doomed to Failure\" href=\"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web2010\/11\/30\/solely-analytical-methods-are-doomed-to-failure\/\"><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Solely Analytical Methods are Doomed to Failure<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a title=\"Statistics are Not the Truth, Just a Mathematical Method\" href=\"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web2011\/04\/05\/what-my-intuition-tells-me-now-statistics-are-not-the-truth-just-a-mathematical-method\/\">Statistics are Not the Truth, Just a Mathematical Method<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Regardless of your feelings on this issue, Battle of the Quants is one of the globe&#8217;s premier quantitative finance venues and I am thrilled to be a part of it! \u00a0Other participants include Heidi Klum (yes, Heidi Klum is hosting a charity event); Dr. Robert High, the man behind IBM&#8217;s \u00fcber komputer, Watson;\u00a0and my pal, <a title=\"Emanuel Derman Superstar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ederman.com\/new\/index.html\">Emanuel Derman<\/a>. \u00a0Especially big thanks is owed to Bartt Kellermann, principal of <a title=\"Global Capital Acquisition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalcapitalacquisition.com\/\">Global Capital Acquisition<\/a> Corporation, and the man behind the Battle of the Quants; as well as to Robert Passarella, Managing Director: Global Head Financial Institutions Group at <a title=\"DataSift\" href=\"http:\/\/datasift.com\/\">DataSift<\/a>, for introducing me to Bartt.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4968\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/webwp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Manhattan-20130424-00413-e1453508575273.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4968\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4968\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4968\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/webwp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Manhattan-20130424-00413-e1453508575273.jpg\" alt=\"Jason Apollo Voss, CFA at Battle of the Quants as featured in the Main Event: Man vs. machine\" width=\"512\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Jason Apollo Voss, CFA at Battle of the Quants as featured in the Main Event: Man vs. machine<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right here on the What My Intuition Tells Me Now blog I frequently criticized quantitative finance for its disconnection from reality.  In particular, I decry the extreme prejudice to favor analytical, as opposed to creative and intuitive, thinking.  So imagine my great pleasure at being asked to be a panelist at the forthcoming Battle of the Quants in New York City on 24 April 2013 at 10:45am.  Specifically, I will be a part of the &#8220;Main Event&#8221; &#8211; the &#8220;Man vs. Machine&#8221; debate &#8211; taking the side of the power of human reason and wisdom in investing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonapollovoss.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}