def talk(struct) do struct |> title("Machine Learning with Elixir and Phoenix") |> speaker("Eric Weinstein") |> conf("ElixirConf EU") |> city("Barcelona, España") |> date("4 May 2017") end 

for Joshua |##...........................................| 4% 

Part 0: Hello! |###..........................................| 7% 

May the 4th Be With You |#####........................................| 11% 

About Me eric_weinstein = %{employer: "Hulu", github: "ericqweinstein", twitter: "ericqweinstein", website: "ericweinste.in"} 30% off with EURORUBY30! |#######......................................| 16% 

Agenda • Machine learning and neural networks • A wee bit o’ finance • The Phoenix application |#########....................................| 20% 

Part 1: Machine Learning |###########..................................| 24% 

What is it? |############.................................| 27% 

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Generalization |###############..............................| 33% 

What’s Supervised Learning? Classification or regression, generalizing from labeled data to unlabeled data |#################............................| 37% 

Our Data • Data from the S&P 500 from 2015 and 2016 • 3 features, 252 instances • https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SPY/history? p=SPY |##################...........................| 40% 

Features && Labels • Bollinger Bands® • Simple moving average (SMA) • Relative strength index (RSI) • 20-day return |####################.........................| 44% 

Features && Labels • Bollinger Bands® • Simple moving average (SMA) • Relative strength index (RSI) • 20-day return |#####################........................| 47% 

Neural Networks • Computational model based on biological brains • Can model any continuous function (with at least two layers), relatively fast to query, and can model interaction among inputs • However, they are also finicky (often requiring lots of tuning and are prone to overfitting), expensive to train, and black boxes |#######################......................| 50% 

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Training Rules • Buy when predicted 20-day return is positive • Sell when predicted 20-day return is negative • Do nothing when predicted 20-day return is zero (or very close to it) |##########################...................| 57% 

Part 2: Finan¢e |###########################..................| 60% 

Caveat Emptor • I am not a financial professional • No guarantees or warrantees, express or implied, about the completeness or correctness of my experiments • If you repeat them, you can (and probably will) lose money at some point |#############################................| 64% 

Some Jargon S&P 500: American index comprising 500 large companies Adjusted close: closing price adjusted for historical events (such as stock splits) Stock split: Event where a company splits each existing share into multiple shares (e.g. 2:1) Lookahead bias: Bias introduced by using data that wouldn’t have yet been available in a simulation |##############################...............| 67% 

Our Indicators Simple moving average: Arithmetic moving average over a specific window Bollinger Bands®: N standard deviations above and below the SMA (oftentimes N = 2) RSI: Momentum indicator that measures speed and change of price movements |################################.............| 71% 

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How’d We Do? • S&P 500 2015 return: -0.73% • Our return (training): 2.9% • S&P 500 2016 return: 9.84% • Our return (testing): 16.0% |########################################.....| 90% 

Summary • Machine learning is fun and practical • It’s super doable with Elixir + BEAM • Library support is what we really need |##########################################...| 93% 

Takeaways (TL;DPA) • Be the change you want to see in the community! • https://github.com/ericqweinstein/elixirconfeu • http://quantsoftware.gatech.edu |############################################.| 98% 

IO.puts("Thanks!") |#############################################| 100%