[mikkom]

> I get the feeling this "pure dataset" is part of some framework that Numerai thinks will beat the market, given good predictors.

> That's not necessarily the case.

This is the part that I find most interesting. They have a hypothesis and they are testing it with real money.

They are even outsourcing computational power which I think is very interesting as running ml fund with thousands of algos would probably be quite hard to scale.