apollo
VLANC Fx introduce the project “apollo”, a project that combines the creation of an Artificial Intelligence, with quantical calculation and big data decision engine.
Designed to promote human progress through technological and financial development.
Imagine what would happen if we miraculously discovered the answers to one of life's great unknowns.
What will happen next?
Surely to know that answer we would need a time machine. And fortunately, in reality, a time machine is not that difficult to build.
Now let's explain what we mean...
Imagine a billiard room, waiting for the initial shot that will disperse the balls. You're about to hit the cue stick and, stop! Stop your imagination just at that moment before the stroke.
At that moment, if we asked you to predict which balls would land in which pockets, would you be able to guess right? Of course you wouldn't.
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There are thousands of possible outcomes for that situation. But... what if we had a time machine that would allow us to go fifteen seconds into the future, observe what happens to the billiard balls and then come back? Believe it or not, we will have the technology and the necessary elements to do so, thanks to Apollo.
We would need optical sensors on the table to measure the speed, rotation, direction and axis of spin of the cue ball as it moves, and then we could get an instantaneous mathematical model of the ball's motion at any given time. And such a model would allow highly accurate predictions of future motion. Knowing exactly the mass, position and velocity of the cue ball, we could calculate the interactions with the other balls and predict the outcome.
OK, we'll take it... It's not exactly a time machine, but it allows us to see into the future.
This way, I can know the future long before it happens. Computer simulations are actually virtual time machines. Of course, this is all based on simple calculations on a closed system like a billiard table. But what about a more complex system?
We think you can imagine what we're getting at. Computer modeling is a kind of time machine that allows us to see into the future and know what will happen ... maybe even billions of years from now.
We are not the first to idealize something like this, as even this is a frighteningly complex experiment.
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To reproduce the chemistry of the ocean, simulations at the molecular level would be necessary. Something like predicting atmospheric weather with a level of accuracy that would allow us to know the exact location of every molecule of air at any given time. Any useful simulation of the sea would therefore require a computer capable not only of applying the laws of physics, mechanics, thermodynamics, gravitation, conservation of energy, etc., but also those of chemistry, to accurately reproduce the bonds that would occur between each atom, within the bubbling broth of the ocean.
Unfortunately, a simulation that has to consider such an enormous number of possible permutations requires a colossal processing power; a quantum computer.
However, if the current model could be computerized, the experiment would show molecules combining with each other for years, but in the end we would not be able to determine the precise behavior of human beings and therefore of their complex social, financial and natural systems. We would not have the element of universal natural behavior that governs human beings yet.
Perhaps we have omitted only one essential ingredient from the recipe...
The law of entropy.
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When we heat a coffee, we concentrate heat energy in the liquid. If we leave the cup on the table for an hour, the heat is dispersed throughout the room and evenly distributed. The process is irreversible. No matter how long we wait, the universe will never magically warm our coffee again. We live in an entropic universe.
Well, now, first of all, let's clarify that this is not a proven theory but just an idea.
The universe works with a single directive and a single goal.
To disperse energy.
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In other words, when the universe finds energy concentrated in certain areas, it disperses it. This is the 2nd law of thermodynamics, entropy.
The universe favors entropy and disorder, so isn't it surprising to find so many examples of molecules organizing themselves?
Tornadoes, snowflakes, life forms...
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These are all examples of dissipative structures, collections of molecules arranged in such a way that they contribute to a more efficient dispersion of the energy concentrated in the system. Tornadoes are nature's way of removing a concentration of high pressures, converting it into a rotating force that after a time is exhausted.
In other words, matter self-organizes to better disperse energy. In its attempt to promote disorder, nature creates small islands of order. These islands are structures that intensify chaos in a system and thus increase entropy.
What does entropy have to do with the behavior of the social and financial system? Well, it turns out that systems are an exceptionally effective instrument for dissipating energy. Life not only obeys the laws of physics, but also originated because of those laws.
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If we add the law of entropy to the devised model, we would be able to prove that financial and human systems work with this omitted ingredient. We even believe that we could prove the origin of DNA. Why would a system build DNA in its attempt to disperse energy? Very simple: because two heads think better than one, and four better than two. A forest diffuses more sunlight than an isolated tree. If one is an instrument of entropy, the easiest way to work more and better will be to split oneself into innumerable copies of oneself.
Thus we would be witnesses of Darwinian evolution. Evolution is the universe's way of constantly testing and perfecting its systems. The most efficient survive and evolve. They continue to improve and become more and more complex and even more efficient. Over time, some of these systems take on the appearance of trees, and others end up resembling universal nature, such as complex galactic and planetary systems. From a microcosmic to a universal angle, that is exactly a fractal system, and the financial system is governed by the same law.
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These human systems - the social, the financial, the natural, the evolutionary, among others- come from the same laws of physics that have created life throughout the cosmos.
If you have paid close attention to all of the above, you will understand the enormous importance of what we have just shared. This gave rise to another even more significant idea. Knowing the origin of systems is half as amazing as figuring out where we are going. And that will be Apollo's specialty.
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While we were thinking about the idea of the model that can show the guidelines of the social and financial system, we wondered what would happen if we went further in time, beyond the present. To imagine beyond.
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If we use these key historical data, we could create a model capable of extolling them together, as if it were one of those connect-the-dots pastimes, but applied to the social and financial terrain.
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We would start with simple features, such as: human behavior, a very precise indicator of financial behavior.
Why bother to look at human behavior? Because if we discover a pattern, a trend, the model could tell us where that trend will take us in the future. As in the financial markets, human behavior is captured there and so it is possible to spot quantified opportunities before they happen.
If we say, 2, 4, 6, 8, you will immediately say 10. In essence what we intend to do with the model is to have it predict what that 10 will look like. If the model could simulate the evolution of human systems up to the present moment, we could model the obvious question: what happens next, what will the financial system look like later on?
In other words, where are we going?
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The evolution of a system is always linked to the environment in which it lives. So my variables to consider would be: the environmental situation of today's world, the political situation, the social situation... Think of it this way, it is very simple because all the news about culture, politics, science, methodology and technology are widely available on the net, so the model would be nourished from there. Simple, isn't it?
Well... almost.
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The main factors to consider are those that may affect the future development of the human brain: new drugs, experimental medium techniques, pollution, cultural elements and so on.
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Then, the idea comes to life. If the model were to live and advance, something unexpected would happen.
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Every day, new technological advances emerge, evolving at an exponential rate, and each technology becomes an instrument to create new technologies. The invention of the computer has made possible the construction of amazing instruments, from smart phones to spacecraft to surgical robots.
We are witnessing an explosion of innovation far faster than our minds can comprehend. And we are the creators of that new breakthrough, the knowledge of tomorrow.
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Our financial systems are evolving into something different. The same instruments that work out there today, fifty years from now will be incorporated into new, more complex and sophisticated technological and systemic forms.
We are at a strange turning point in history, a time of global upheaval when nothing seems to be as we had imagined. But uncertainty always precedes great change. There is always restlessness and fear before the most profound transformations.
With Apollo, we may have the power to illuminate the darkness.
Go further than anyone and go beyond possibilities.
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Take your business to the next level.
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