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Complex System Similarity - Stock Markets

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  Derivatives Modified The Natural Structure of Independent Traded Stock Many stocks are correlated with each other; it could be that they are correlated  by sector or by design ? This is a snapshot of a few correlated stocks within the month of October 2019. The time domain profiles; for correlated stocks are seen below: JCI - Time Domain Profile - Same Day - Below: As you can see JCI and RIG are Positively Correlated  (e.g. when RIG goes up JCI also does) Note that RIG goes up in the "gaps" between JCI moving up                                                         RIG is also positively correlated with IR                                                         ...

Landscape Similarity and ML Methods

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 Natural similarity is everywhere  In Landscapes , that contain the Sky The only items that are linear are human made objects                                      Humans use "our memory" and similarity to recognize nature.  Many image processing algorithms are biased towards certain features: straight edges or objects associated with humans like faces, eyes, etc.   Common machine learning algorithms utilize       1) exact image template matching            As described in this article, utilizing OpenCV           https://towardsdatascience.com/image-matching-with-opencvs-template-matching-5df577a3ce2e         2) reduce the image into histograms            https://towardsdatascience.com/histograms-in-image-processing-with-skimage-python-b...

Experimental Evidence

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 What follows is experimental evidence across several domains: medical and landscapes   Eye picture - similar cells - that match a degraded profile - retina pathology Evolving sunset sky with similar clouds / complexity ocean cliff house ridge ... these were found via a similarity metric - not hand chosen. sunset picture and beach cliff house - similar due to complexity and colors since the two sky pictures are related ; both sky pictures and ridge are similarly related. And since ridge pictures are related, the sunset picture is also similarly related                                    

Future Observations ...

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  What if we observed       infinity,                A snapshot of a Nebula and Star Fields                infinite time,           an infinite spiral clock           infinite energy,          expressed as energy release across time and evolution of observable universe     infinite observations, memory and recall          a humans neocortex contain 21 Billion Neurons and 2 Billion Synaptic Connections          consider how to store knowledge from all humans in an enterprise     infinite compute,           Cray's Titan - one of the US's top supercomputer     infinite networks          All the fiber that connects all computers ... What would we see   ...

Invariant with respect to time

Sometimes new ideas arrive at our doorstop. Before this idea arrived on my doorstep I followed the normal course for a software engineer moving from one language to another with some vague promise that xyz if better than method zyx.  Later you might find that these are new implementations of old ideas.   In my case the idea was Memex - introduced by US Director of Research in the 40's. Memex  implementations are diverse; some implementations are singularly applied to a specific domain.  Other implementations require extensive programming. an implementation that I helped evangelize cross-correlated all words, symbols, and numerical data into a compressed graph index.  It can answer questions like a human - what do you know about this ? - how is this similar to other data like this ? with the answers expressed in terms of similarity with associated explanations.  Occasionally the answer was "I don't know"  The Memex implementation was an index of in...