Do you think neural encryption is closer to encryption? GAN-style: One network encrypts while preserving structure, another network tries to reverse engineer to the original features.
Edit: No specific sources for what Numerai is using, but in general: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06918 "Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography".
Edit2: Yes, in general. I would say "yes, this is a valid form of encryption". But I do agree that their marketing was perhaps a bit too optimistic. I have no problem calling it "obfuscation" either (I just think their method of "obfuscation" is way more advanced than removing headers and normalizing within 0-1).
Edit: No specific sources for what Numerai is using, but in general: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06918 "Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography".
Edit2: Yes, in general. I would say "yes, this is a valid form of encryption". But I do agree that their marketing was perhaps a bit too optimistic. I have no problem calling it "obfuscation" either (I just think their method of "obfuscation" is way more advanced than removing headers and normalizing within 0-1).