Handicappers Needed for Horse Racing Research Project

[turfnsport]

Originally Posted by andicap

Wondering if something has happened. He cancelled Sunday's sessions pretty abruptly. End of the gravy train perhaps?

They had staffing issues and Thursday's were canceled...Family emergency..Going to be limited this week. Paypal delayed some payments again this week. Issue should be resolved moving forward.

Any other issues contact support or email me directly at turfnsport@aol.com. Don't post in this thread because I may not see it for days.

[andicap]

response from KPK


Thank you for your inquiry. This weekend will be a limited run in observance of Memorial Day. We will be sending out scheduling emails as sessions are confirmed. None are scheduled for today at this time

[mikesal57]

Are you guys allowed to talk about the project?

Did you find it 'unique" to handicapping?

[fastfasterfastest]

Most recent e-mail update received about 10 minutes ago..

Thank you very much for being a valued participant of the KPK Swarm Research program.

We wanted to provide an update on compensation payments for participation during the week of May 13th, 2019.

We have been experiencing slight administrative delays due to the rapid expansion of the program and resulting volume of security and compliance procedures that must be met. As mentioned in our previous message on May 20th, 2019, we will have the proper account mechanisms in-place by next week to process payments en-mass. Despite our greatest efforts to complete payments individually this week under our current account capabilities, we will need to combine these payments into the upcoming payment cycle on May 28th, 2019.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Please be assured, your participation is the most valuable element of this program, and it is our top priority to ensure your compensation is successfully received in the most expedient manner possible.

In observance of Memorial Day, we will be running a limited series of sessions this weekend, and resuming full coverage next week. We completely understand if you may not be willing or able to cover upcoming sessions until the outstanding balance is completed, and would like to confirm that any skipped sessions will not in any way affect your position in the program.

Thank you very much again for your continued patience and support on this matter. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to email us at billing@kpkventures.com.


Best regards,
KPK Ventures

[mikesal57]

this about sums all this up....

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[headhawg]

You are even a bigger cynic than me Mike.

[mikesal57]

Originally Posted by headhawg

You are even a bigger cynic than me Mike.

[JerryBoyle]

While I'm not calling the OP a liar, this will definitely be used in racing if it proves to be useful. No study runner is going to see it outperforming, see the potential profit, and not put it to work. There was an article about this kind of "swarm AI" a while ago: https://www.techrepublic.com/article...entucky-derby/.

[Dave Schwartz]

It's a prediction market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market

I've actually got an artificial one in my software. We call it Swarm Technology, (as do these guys), but in truth, "swarms" in the wild world of A.I. is something entirely different.

Horse racing is a perfect example of how a swarm works in the real world, BTW.

IMHO, you should give these guys a try.

They will probably pay you and if not, you'll be out a few hours doing something you love anyway.

[Suff]

Swarm is consensus based logic. This type of intelligence comes from harnessing group-think.

The project here sounds like Machine Learning using Unsupervised Training. Machine learning learns from human inputs (annotations) on an outcome or expected outcome.

When you train an AI using supervised learning, you give it an input and tell it the expected output. ( winner )

If the output generated by the AI is wrong, it will readjust its calculations. This process is done iteratively over the data set, until the AI makes no more mistakes.



When you train an AI using unsupervised learning, you let the AI make logical classifications of the data.

Unsupervised learning is behavior-predicting. It won’t learn by using a labelled data set of inputs and outputs.

Instead, it will create its own classification of the input data.

[andicap]

I got paid the first week. We'll see what happens next week.

[fastfasterfastest]

Email update this morning...

"At this time, we estimate payments will be delayed an additional 4-5 business days"

[turfnsport]

Issues will their bank and Paypal. They decided to hold off on resuming swarms until everyone gets paid.

[fastfasterfastest]

Originally Posted by turfnsport

Issues will their bank and Paypal. They decided to hold off on resuming swarms until everyone gets paid.

And they should hold off but it's never a good look when time frames keep being missed and or extended.

[turfnsport]

Originally Posted by fastfasterfastest

And they should hold off but it's never a good look when time frames keep being missed and or extended.

Nobody is more frustrated than they are. The issues with Paypal were not anticipated.

Payments are coming and for anyone not happy with the delay it is certainly your option not to participate moving forward.