# Numerai Quant Club with Michael Oliver

**URL:** <https://forum.numer.ai/t/numerai-quant-club-with-michael-oliver/5933>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [December 12, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/numerai-quant-club-with-michael-oliver/5933 "2022-12-12T22:24:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![zizek](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/zizek/32/1543_2.png) [@zizek](https://forum.numer.ai/u/zizek)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 10:24pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/numerai-quant-club-with-michael-oliver/5933/1 "2022-12-12T22:24:29Z")

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**Announcing Numerai Quant Club with Michael Oliver**

Join Numerai’s Chief Scientist and Minister of Research, Michael Oliver, as he digs deep into the world of Numerai, research, data and everything in between.

This will be a recurring event through 2023. The first scheduled call is  
**Wednesday, January 4th, 2023 | 09:00 PST / 17:00 UTC**

 ![Numerai Quant Club](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/uploads/numerai/original/2X/0/0da392a5491bd28edd3f4900fb316f6f06761fe1.jpeg)

Going forward, these events will be announced typically a week ahead of the scheduled date. Announcements will happen on RocketChat.  
Slido boards will be available for events to submit questions and suggest topics, also shared on RocketChat, but there is no guarantee that all questions will be addressed in a given event. A Zoom link to join will be shared shortly before going live.

The recording of each event will be added to [YouTube](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz3D6SeXhT3tTu8rhZmjwDZpkKi-UPO1F) soon after recording.  
By joining these calls you acknowledge that your audio or video may be shared to Numerai’s channels such as YouTube and Twitter. You will be able to join the calls with your audio and video off if you wish.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Quant Club!

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**Author:** ![jeremy\_berros](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/jeremy_berros/32/3478_2.png) [@jeremy\_berros](https://forum.numer.ai/u/jeremy_berros)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2022, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/numerai-quant-club-with-michael-oliver/5933/2 "2022-12-14T16:07:13Z")

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Looking forward to it and get up to speed on how to best approach the competition with all these changes over the last few months.

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**Author:** ![perfect\_fit](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/perfect_fit/32/2527_2.png) [@perfect\_fit](https://forum.numer.ai/u/perfect_fit)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2022, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/numerai-quant-club-with-michael-oliver/5933/3 "2022-12-26T00:42:23Z")

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Cool! Cool, cool, cool! Think I will join on the call!

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**Author:** ![zizek](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/forum.numer.ai/zizek/32/1543_2.png) [@zizek](https://forum.numer.ai/u/zizek)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.numer.ai/t/numerai-quant-club-with-michael-oliver/5933/4 "2023-01-27T22:30:10Z")

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**Quant Club with Michael Oliver, February 8th at 09:00 PST / 17:00 UTC**

In the next installment of _Quant Club with Michael Oliver_, we will discuss the paper, “_Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data?_” and how to apply its insights to the Numerai competition.

> **[2207.08815.pdf](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.08815.pdf)**
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> 25.21 MB

[Slido link](https://sli.do/quant_club2)  
Details on how to join the call will be shared on RocketChat shortly before going live.