Why are you taking part in this competition?

[gammarat]

Here’s my reasons and background, on this previous thread.

The humans of Numerai

I guess I’m the only antique around these parts . I got introduced to programming in 1969 via a paper tape terminal in high school using FORTRAN. But as I wasn’t all that fond of education I took off for a decade or so. Then around 1980 I started university and took just about all math and physics, with one semester in Pascal to fulfill an arts requirement. I took math because, with no labs, no term papers, and a predictable amount of homework, it was the ideal subject for a…

TL;DR version–it’s just quite interesting.