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The company the article refers to is https://numer.ai/about

From their homepage:

"February 27th 2016, an artificial intelligence named NCVSAI joined Numerai. . . He uses an untraceable email address. . . He is completely anonymous. His strongest prediction: buy Salmar ASA — a Norwegian salmon company. . . Numerai’s hedge fund went long Salmar ASA."

Ok, so how is this anything but an anonymous proxy to arbitrage insider information?

Wrap confidential, non-public information under the guise of developing "AI" for trading?

I am serious, I don't necessarily understand the need for the data scientists to maintain anonymity, seems like the only functional reason is to let them break the law?

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