Machine Learning vs. Quants: The Advantages of Machine Learning in Finance
Author Posted on As quantitative finance has matured and the importance of computation has exploded, it’s time to use machine learning to harvest the new low hanging fruit. Traditionally, quants might work alongside engineers and computer scientists — the quants provide the statistical expertise, and the computer scientists and engineers provide the computational expertise. Machine learning folks combine statistics and computation in one brain to build models that leverage new levels of scale and richness to generalize better to unseen data and tackle new problems.