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Slider
10-29-2001, 11:08 PM
I am beta testing the latest Horsestreet Handicapping program (HSH) upgrade. This puppy took almost two months to come out. We normally get upgrades each month. However, this is a giant upgrade. This upgrade has more stuff than many programs that are on the market now.

It contains HSH pace which is unique and different from anything on the market now. I can not explain this approach to you in words. You would need to see it for yourself. Conventional pace and HSH composites are still there and available with a click of the toggle button for comparisons.

This is a lot of information to look at. That is where artificial intelligence comes in. Yes, the ants have arrived. Ants is the name used for artificial intelligence. Read the horsestreet.com website free stuff section and you will understand why. These are network ants. They do not require a large database. I have used only the last few weeks of previous races and they work fine. These ants use a different approach for each user and we can end up with different answers. This is because of all the options used for the training plus there is a randomness factor. Sounds complicated but the usage is easy.
Takes less than 60 seconds to handicap a race. Whoops almost forgot to mention all the analysis tools that are opened up with the ants. I like to do research and this is great. Push buttons and see the impact values and ROI’s along with what the public is doing.

The BD button is automated even further. BD is a button system that tells us how much to bet. It takes the guess work out of wagering. The BD wagering system has been opened up to selections from other methods. This lets us know how deep we can go in our contender selection process and show a reasonable profit.

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Buffalo Bob
11-08-2001, 09:43 PM
Slider:

Wouldn't "ants" as you and Dave describe them here actually be miniature quasi-trained neural networks, rather than artificial intelligence?

Dave Schwartz
11-08-2001, 10:25 PM
Bob,

You will have to move forward about 10 years... Until the early '90s only heuristic systems (i.e. "expert systems") were considered artificial intelligence systems.

Neural nets are now generally considered as AI as well.

Technically, this particular permutation of AI has the structure of a neural net but its training engine is actually a genetic algorithm.


Regards,
Dave Schwartz

Slider
11-09-2001, 01:55 AM
Buffalo Bob:
Huh, yeah, what Dave said. <G>

Been working with these ants for a while now and they are an education. The selection and assigning of confidence levels to training races is advancing my handicapping education. I did not expect this but the confidence levels are painting a picture of the race types. You can see what the strength of what factors are doing the winning. It is similar to modeling but not quiet since I am assigning the confidence levels for each race. Can not fully explain but it was surprising when I got ready to train and saw them all together. It is kind of like a picture of what races are playable and what are not.