Chris Sim writes on AI, blockchain, data architecture and publishing from New York City.https://chrisx.nyc/en-ushttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/an-agentic-design-for-ai-consciousness/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/an-agentic-design-for-ai-consciousness/A design for conscious AI built today: LLM-backed submind agents, stigmergic memory and a stream of consciousness.Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMTGenerative AIagentaiconsciousnesshttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/an-executives-cheat-sheet-to-generative-ai/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/an-executives-cheat-sheet-to-generative-ai/Cutting through the Gen AI hype: a short, straightforward cheat sheet for executives deciding where it fits.Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 GMTGenerative AIaigenerativeaihttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/optimizing-defi-yield-aggregator-portfolios-with-garch-modeling-and-cvar-analysis/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/optimizing-defi-yield-aggregator-portfolios-with-garch-modeling-and-cvar-analysis/Optimizing yield aggregator vault portfolios with GARCH simulation and CVaR to manage crypto tail risk.Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMTBlockchainblockchainDeFihttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/harnessing-generative-ai-to-personalize-financial-education/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/harnessing-generative-ai-to-personalize-financial-education/Using GPT-4 to read a customer's psychographic profile and rewrite financial wellness content just for them.Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMTGenerative AIaigptmarketinghttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/optimizing-portfolio-performance-using-generative-ai-and-synthetic-financial-data/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/optimizing-portfolio-performance-using-generative-ai-and-synthetic-financial-data/Using GPT to generate synthetic market scenarios that stress-test allocation across three emerging market ETFs.Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTGenerative AIaiasset allocationGANgptsynthetic datahttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/blockchain-beyond-the-frontier/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/blockchain-beyond-the-frontier/Script and slides from my Blackseachain 2022 talk on where blockchain genuinely matters, beyond the hype.Sat, 10 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMTBlockchainblockchainself-sovereign identityhttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/my-book-and-machine-learning-odyssey-part-4/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/my-book-and-machine-learning-odyssey-part-4/It's not what a book says, it's how it makes you feel: finding the emotional language that connects readers to books.Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTArtificial Intelligenceaibooksmachine learningnlphttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/my-book-and-machine-learning-odyssey-part-3/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/my-book-and-machine-learning-odyssey-part-3/Pivoting from bestseller prediction to a real need in publishing: generating Amazon keywords for books at scale.Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTArtificial Intelligencea9aibooksmachine learningnlphttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/my-book-and-machine-learning-odyssey-part-2/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/my-book-and-machine-learning-odyssey-part-2/Chasing publishing's holy grail: validating a bestseller prediction model with literary agents and real manuscripts.Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTArtificial Intelligenceaibooksmachine learningnlphttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/my-book-and-machine-learning-odyssey-part-1/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/my-book-and-machine-learning-odyssey-part-1/Why I founded Kadaxis: a lab for testing machine learning on book data before wrapping what worked into a product.Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMTArtificial Intelligenceaibooksmachine learningmongonlpscalasearch rankhttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/a-decentralized-publishing-ecosystem/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/a-decentralized-publishing-ecosystem/A 2017 discovery piece for an Ethereum publishing ecosystem that puts value and control back with authors, publishers and readers.Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMTBlockchainblockchainpublishinghttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/data-platform-and-mlops-architecture/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/data-platform-and-mlops-architecture/Maturing a deep learning startup's data and MLOps platform into a B2B SaaS product, from as-is to future state.Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMTArchitectureaiarchitectureawsmachine learningmlopstensorflowhttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/data-pipeline-architecture-bookish/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/data-pipeline-architecture-bookish/The book data pipeline, search and recommendation architecture I built at Bookish around 2012 to 2013.Mon, 09 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTArchitecturearchitecturedata pipelinepublishinghttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/measuring-keyword-effectiveness-on-amazon/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/measuring-keyword-effectiveness-on-amazon/Off-page keywords are invisible to shoppers. Here is how to tell whether they actually surface a book in Amazon search.Mon, 08 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMTPublishingaidiscount cumulative gainmachine learningsearch rankhttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/panel-rights-metadata-and-marketing/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/panel-rights-metadata-and-marketing/My answers from the BISG 2017 panel on rights, metadata and marketing at the Harvard Club, NYC.Sat, 30 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMTPublishingbisgpanelpublishinghttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/webinar-adding-keywords-to-backlist-titles/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/webinar-adding-keywords-to-backlist-titles/A BISG webinar on how Amazon search works and how to optimize keywords and on-page data for search rank.Thu, 17 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMTPublishingamazonkeywordssearchsearch rankhttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/legal-analysis-of-web-scraping-uk/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/legal-analysis-of-web-scraping-uk/The case I made to a UK publisher's legal team on the legality of scraping Amazon.co.uk reviews for keywords.Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMTArtificial Intelligencelegalscrapinghttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/machine-learning-and-bestseller-prediction-more-than-words-can-say/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/machine-learning-and-bestseller-prediction-more-than-words-can-say/Why a book's text alone can't predict bestsellers: lessons from testing a prediction algorithm in the wild.Wed, 28 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMTArtificial Intelligenceaibestsellersdata science machine learningnlpoverfittingpredictionpublishinghttps://chrisx.nyc/posts/why-keywords-are-so-important/https://chrisx.nyc/posts/why-keywords-are-so-important/Why keywords may be one of the highest return marketing activities for books, and how they drive Amazon discovery.Thu, 21 May 2015 00:00:00 GMTPublishingbook discoverymarketingpublishingsearch