BitIRA, West Point Partner on Machine Learning Research
Summary
BitIRA has partnered with the United States Military Academy at West Point to assist students to apply their systems engineering skills to investigate real-world questions. “He had the clever idea of running the numbers backwards, analyzing sales performance outside that stereotypical demographic, and, sure enough, it held up.” But the project wasn’t without its high points. Cadet Place explained that “race was not necessarily a huge predictor of whether someone bought cryptocurrency, something that surprised me.” So apparently we can strike “white” from the list of average-customer adjectives. Using the machine learning platform TensorFlow, Cadet Raftery employed a natural language processing script to analyze the day’s headlines for keywords related to cryptocurrencies along with their sentiment, positive or negative. Founded by team members from Birch Gold Group with extensive precious metals IRA experience, the company was established on the belief that Americans should have easier access to the wide range of conventional and alternative assets available to hold in their tax-advantaged retirement accounts.