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From: on behalf of Ben Goertzel . , Sent: Monday, November 3, 2014 5:55 AM To: jeffrey E. Subject: Re: timing for meet-up in November ... Re: Visiting in November Hi, Sorry to be a nag, but do you know if you're available Nov 6 at this point? thx ;) ben On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:43 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: > cant be sure yet > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Ben Goertzel wrote: >> » I'm firming up my travel plans; does Nov 6 in NYC still look good for » us to meet? » Looking forward to it -- lots to report & discuss! » thx ;) » ben >> » On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 5:59 PM, jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: >» >» 6th looks good at the moment >» On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:10 AM, Ben Goertzel wrote: >>» >>» »» Hi Jeffrey, >>» »» It looks like I'll be at MIT Nov 7-9, and then on the US East Coast »» (details to be figured out) from Nov 10-17 .... Will sometime in the »» interval Nov 10-17 work for us to meet up? >>» »» If not I could possibly do Nov 5 or 6 or so, before the BICA »» conference at MIT ... but I'd want to know soon so I can buy plane »» tickets HK-US accordingly... >>» »» Or if this is too far in advance for you to plan a meeting, I can EFTA_R1_01780267 EFTA02595540 »» just come and then hope to schedule something with you at the last »» minute ;) >>» »» There is loads of interesting stuff to discuss!! >>» »» Thanks a lot, »» Ben >>» »» On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote: >>>» >>>» >»» Great! >>>» >»» Do you want to arrange the particular date now, or should I ping >»» you about it in a couple weeks? >>>» >» I will probably need to buy plane tickets for the trip around Oct >»» 1, and it would be good to incorporate knowledge of the date of >»» our meeting to trip planning... >>>» >»» Thanks a lot, >»» Ben >>>» >>>» >»» On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:47 PM, jeffrey E. >»» <jeevacation@gmail.com> >»» wrote: >>»» yes look forward to it >>»» On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Ben Goertzel >>»» wrote: >>>»» Hi Jeffrey, >>>» I hope you've been well ! >>>» I'll be in the US in early November for the BICA conference at >>>»» MIT (Nov 7-9; I guess Joscha will attend as well)... and >>>»» probably stay in the US for a little bit after that... >>>>>» I wonder if we could meet up at some point during my US visit -- >>>»» either in Boston if you'll be there around that time, or in New >>>»» York, or anywhere else that you prefer... >>>»» It would be good to show you some of the stuff we've been up to >>>»» with OpenCog, if you can spare a couple hours. Lots going on ;) >>>» ... (due to the efforts of the team in Hong Kong, plus some of the guys in Ethiopia...) ... >>>»» our NLP/reasoning work is advancing quite a bit, as well as some >>>»» video game world and robotics stuff... 2 EFTA_R1_01780268 EFTA02595541 >>>»» As an aside, our Al hedge fund project looks like it's going to go >>>»» forward and well probably start trading early next year. We had been >>>»» struggling with HK equity data, but shifting to US equities and >>>»» global futures (in the last couple months) has given us much >>>»» nicer historical prediction accuracies (largely due to the lower >»>>» transaction costs on these markets). Next step is to run >>>>>» backtests on these other markets, and then try it all on data from 2012-2014, which we have held out as "virgin data" >>>»» for last-ditch testing... and then if that works, trade real money.... I >>>»» have been splitting my time between OpenCog and the trading >>>»» project and am sick to death of quantitative finance and eager >>>»» to shift more time to OpenCog; but I would rather ramp down my >>>»» time on the finance project on a successful note (i.e. after >>>»» getting a tradable system working), and at the moment it seems to be going in that direction... >>>»» Thanks, >>>»» Ben >>>»» Ben Goertzel, PhD >>>»» http://goertzel.org >>>»» "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. >>>»» James T. Kirk >>>»» "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery / None but ourselves >>>»» can free our minds" -- Robert Nesta Marley please note >>»» The information contained in this communication is confidential, >>»» may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside >>»» information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. >>»» It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying >>»» of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited »>>» and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in >>»» error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail >>»» to jeevacation@gmail.com, and destroy this communication and all >>»» copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights >>»» reserved >>>» [repeated 5 times] >»» Ben Goertzel, PhD >»» http://goertzel.org >>>» >»» "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. 3 EFTA_R1_01780269 EFTA02595542 >»» James T. Kirk >>>» >>>» "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery / None but ourselves can >»» free our minds" -- Robert Nesta Marley >>» [repeated 4 times] »» Ben Goertzel, PhD »» http://goertzel.org >>» »» "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable »» one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all »» progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw >» [repeated 3 times] please note >» The information contained in this communication is confidential, may >» be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, >» and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the >» property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this >» communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be >» unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please >» notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to >» jeevacation@gmail.com, and destroy this communication and all copies >» thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved » -- » Ben Goertzel, PhD » http://goertzel.org >> » "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one » persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all » progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw > please note > The information contained in this communication is confidential, may > be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and > is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of > JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or > any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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