by Claudio
Some of us would like to believe that the days when we were still being ruled by quants and risk analysts are drawing to a close. That by now we would be reasoned to tears and sucked empty from looking at the world through the veil of spreadsheets and data-driven platitudes. That we would have set aside by now all our ‘Key Performance Indicators’ and that we would want to dive in head first, without an inkling of what is at the other end. That we would let algorithms, at last, do the heavy lifting for us. So we can take tennis lessons, learn to play the guitar or catch up on the sleep and the sanity we lost while racing against the machines all those years.
But I was wrong, I suppose. Because there was Nate Silver giving a talk for theJohn Adams Institute at the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, earlier this month, reminding us that the future still very much belongs to the poker players, the crypto bros and the risk analysts. And that I’ll just have to hang in there just a little while longer.
