Introduction to the Evidence of the Use of Kelly Type Strategies by the Great Investors and Others
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Abstract
We know that in the long run, full Kelly strategies dominate other strategies, but they are very risky short term. Hence, practical applications to long sequences of wagers are especially appropriate. Current hedge fund trading that enters and exits in a few seconds is such an application. Thorp (1960) coined the term Fortunes's Formula in his application of Kelly to the game of blackjack using his card counting system. The count provides an estimate of the mean so that with more favorable counts the player should wager more. Typically, blackjack players can play about 60+ hands per hour. So this application works well for full Kelly. But the risk is high that even after a few hours, with say a 1% edge, a player may be behind. Hence, blackjack teams typically use fractional Kelly strategies, with fractions of 0.2 to 0.8 being common. Gottlieb (1984, 1985) describes the early use of these fractional Kelly strategies…
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".