I submitted this article because I was especially intrigued by the high-profile ex-Google ML Researcher hire (and then departure.) Anyone know what exactly the BlackRock ML group was doing? Was it supposed to be a competitor to Renaissance Technologies (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/how-renai...)? Was this an NLP-driven fund gone haywire?
I'm particularly interested as I was recruited for this group multiple times, so a bit relieved I didn't pursue it. I wonder if there are any lessons (about what to avoid) to be learned here about the way the group was structured...or if it was simple randomness gone wrong.
I'm particularly interested as I was recruited for this group multiple times, so a bit relieved I didn't pursue it. I wonder if there are any lessons (about what to avoid) to be learned here about the way the group was structured...or if it was simple randomness gone wrong.