we call them free range quants.interviewed a guy who has created his own algorithms, written his own code. they are doing the kind of trading that big operations in new york are doing. their view is we can do it too. they use open-source coding. carol: diy for coders. they are giving the established elite a run for their money. ellen: some of the traders are like -- they cannot compete with us. you may think that, but there are smart people everywhere. carol: in the company section, you have a story about coca-cola and what they're doing with milk. this is an area they are interested in working in. ellen: we call it designer milk. milk that is lower lactose, high calcium, lower sugar. coca-cola is collaborating with a dairy company. dean foods is doing this. the idea is that you are more likely to buy fancy milk. one of the reasons coca-cola is doing it, soft drink sales are down. people are trying to avoid sugary drinks. those specialty milk sales are up, something like 20%, as regular milk and soft drinks go down.

we call them free range quants.a guy who has created his own algorithms, written his own code. they are doing the kind of trading that big operations in new york are doing. their view is "we can do it, they are using open source coding and they think they can play with the big boys. carol: diy for coders. it is really kind of interesting and giving the established hedge funds a run for their money. and some of the traders in big firms say -- they cannot compete with us. you may think that, but there are smart people everywhere. carol: in the company section, company news, you have a story about coca-cola and what they are doing with milk. this is kind of an area they are interested in working in. ellen: we call it designer milk. i think they call it the specialty health category. milk that is lower lactose, high calcium, lower sugar. coca-cola is collaborating with a dairy company. there are other companies doing this to, like dean foods is doing this. very big, very cooperative. the idea is that you are more likely

the quants today are using unstructured data.and different sources of data, spree,are in a buying looking for every piece of data they can, bringing it in house and then analyzing how they can look at it and predict based on what that information is where markets will move and position themselves accordingly. what we are finding is that the investors are becoming increasingly sensitive to the quantitative managers, because interest rates are relatively zero, no fixed income that they can put money into read their eight -- reach their 8%. they are looking for those strategies that would take advantage of volatility. so where do they look? ,uants they look towards the but it is a comic world and they need guideposts. rishaad: machines are using their own intelligence or basing their intelligence on our brains who program them. >> we certainly are behind the algorithms being created so that machines can absorb information, interpret it, and after a certain point become self learning. that is what the concept of deep learning/numeral

we call them free range quants.athw professor who has created his own code, as a partner in canada, and they're doing the kind of trading the big operations in new york are doing. they're feeling is that they can do it too, open-source coding, and they think they can play with the big boys. carol: it is really interesting. established elite a run for their money. of the of them, some traders and big firms are like, they can't compete with us. there are smart people everywhere. people,peaking of smart in the company's section, company news, i story about coca-cola and what they're doing with milk. this is an area they are interested in working in. >> we call it designer milk. i think they called the specialty milk category come milk that is low and lactose, high calcium, less sugar, a of milk, andnds coca-cola is collaborating with the dairy company. there are other companies doing this to. the idea is that you are more likely to buy fancy milk. one of the reasons that coca-cola is doing it is because soft drink sale

they use quant models and algorithms to do investing and they are making more of a push in this directionso, it is clear they need somebody there overseeing the technological aspect. if you pull it up on linkedin, there's a time of engineers, and some would say that bridgewater is more of a technology company that an investment firm in that way. sense. make a lot of they really want them to focus if they are -- or becoming a technology firm, is it more important to be ceo? vonnie: just give us a little bit more about the infighting. reporter: the wall street journal reported they had ray a to employees to vote on their behavior. if you talk to folks who work at bridgewater or other stories, there has been a culture of let's have everybody vote and produce of eight and decision-making, and you are sick -- participate in decision-making and you're supposed to participate. everybody carrying around an ipad. you are required to give a certain amount of feedback a day . in this context, it's not so strange that there would be this kind of debate internally. i think it's just when you are outsi

and the capitals host th if you are looking for something that is slower pace the quant garm book fair today and tomorrow. check out the rare books and naps. >> this is a fun way i'm excited about. alexandria st. patrick's day parade will take place tomorrow in old town. a car show toed by a dog show and brian van de graaff is master of ceremonies and will take place around noon. whatever you do have a great weekend. i'm kidd o'shea. jonathan: might be this could be in your calendar things to do. national zoo and the panda house are in the plans you might see this. the panda cam. bei bei is take a moment to enjoy the video. we caught a pan the playing. the panda got out and played in the snow. but the school district shut the schools down. they didn't want the kids in the snow. how does it happen? michelle: last night at 1:30 when they made the announcement, i thought i know they wouldn't joke about that but i did take a double take. are you serious? really? the kids were like we got -- jonathan: what do you think hay i'll say? michelle: some wonder why they didn't have school. a paren

look at maps right now aside from those slow downs more slow downs in virginia. 95 northbound to quants codipped to a sad 16. no rashes to report a of traffic across all lanes. same story in prince william. 95 northbound dale city to 123. average needs under 20 mimes app how. dealing with a 20 minute delay through that area. it could start to increase as more folks hit the close. arlington you show a bit and charles doocumenty mad awoman, beantown road. metro is ob time. that's good news and no delays reported for metro. volume in city trying to increase new yorkavenue inbound as you work your way across the key bridge. back to you staev and allison. >> thank you so much, erin, today marks two years since disappearance of malaysia airlines mm 370. they held a most of eye lens in monday or o recently a piece of wreckage believed toe come from the flight washed up on island near mozambi. >> south korea says it will sanctions 24 organizations and 38 people in north korea announcement comes one day after they warned of preemtive nuclear strike. they view if as envision rehearsal. >> crews w

rather than fighting in chicago, i did something that was a good move, a good decision, because i don't quantto see anybody be hurt. and we've been given so much credit for that decision. nobody hurt, no problem. it went away. but because of that, people say, well, is there violence. there is no violence. there a love fest. these are love fests. and every once in a while, i mean, sometimes like you just had somebody will stand up and say something and the police who are so great by the way in all cases, they're great. but somebody will stand up and they will say something and a lot of times they're kids and they don't know where they're coming from and they will have a bernie sign. bernie is going nowhere. you know that. but they will have a bernie sign. probably given to them by bernie. they're the bernie signs. they're made by machine. they're made the same signs that you see. and possibly or probably given to by bernie's people. but it's a little disruption. but there is no violence. none whatsoever. and we go and these things are so incredible. it's a movement and it's a love fest and we

that's from our quant firm. it's a historical guide on seasonality. doesn't factor in some of the weird things we're going through right now, when it comes to raising rates and diverging policies. for more, go to cnbc.com and check out cnbc pro. >> let's get to some political news. it's super tuesday. historically, this is a showdown that ends some campaigns and solidifies others. nbc's tracie potts has this. >> reporter: donald trump hoping to build on his front runner status today with his closest challengers aiming to collect enough delegates to remain competitive. >> a vote for donald trump tomorrow is literally a vote for hillary clinton in november. >> reporter: for ted cruz, that means winning his home state, texas. >> so what we will see, i believe, is donald trump and me coming out both with a significant chunk of delegates and everyone else far behind. >> reporter: there could be trouble for trump this super tuesday. buzzfeed reports there's a secret "new york times" tape where trump reportedly rejects his own promises to close the border. >

if you say now something has changed, we quant do that, we have to pay for it, senator manchin has a pay-for. a penny per milligram of opioid. it raises over $1 billion. you can do half a penny that the pharmaceutical industry that is so culpable in this predicament, in this tragedy that we have could contribute. but, no, rather than allow this good program, this bipartisan program to be expedited out there to help the people who are dying, $47,000 in 2014, the last year, what we've done is protect the pharmaceutical industry from having to pay any share of the solution. i yield to my colleagues. mrs. shaheen: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new hampshire. mrs. shaheen: i appreciate the comments from my colleague from rhode island, who is the author of the comprehensive addiction and recovery act, that is the underlying bill that we were trying to amend. and i would just point out that despite what the honorable chairman of the budget committee said, the fact is that the emergency supplemental funding amendment that we introduced is very specific about where th

halo effect hoped for and think that is important for us to acknowledge and really dig into that and quant ify it so going forward we know that we go in eyes wide open next time and brain storm with the people who are putting on the event and endorsing the event both on the superbowl side and city side, how we try to get more benefits for all businesses in san francisco and how we try to mitigate the negative impacts because sometimes you just will be too close and have to know how to prepare. shut your door and take a vacation, what do you do because you incured additional cost by having to over staff and you don't think about the additional cost that are incured. it isn't just the loss it is the additional stuff-we built more product to make sure that our local retailers wouldn't be short. it was highly unnecessary because they sold less than they normally do and we sell a lot of product at the farey building and it is very consistent and have multiple years of data so can easily quantify the effect over that period of time. >> even [inaudible] the chart er yacht companies were down. the

m 30 in quantico.30 in quant 32 for you in leonardtown.k.tty quick here comes our clipper system. you can see the moisture snow so streaming back towards chicagodo this morning. mor now approaching cleveland. and we can expect snow to breakb out around here after rush hourh probably nine, 10:00 o'clock0:0k tonight we'll get a period of snow beginning and then andhe overnight tonight it will pick up a little bit in its intensity and i think by early morning byy our morning commute tomorrow thm snow will still be flying atlyg least through seven,ghev 8:00 o'clock tomorrow morning wm are going to have period of snof around here early tomorrowom morning. all right. how much snow we looking at? weo not whole lot. l one to 3-inches looks like the jackpot here to our south and sa east.ea perhaps parts of prince george's county, charles county, calverte county. you guys will get a little more, and one of our sort of questionq actually going to stick? it hat been relatively warm the laste l couple of days with theda exception of yesterday.. and tha

halo effect hoped for and think that is important for us to acknowledge and really dig into that and quant ify it so going forward we know that we go in eyes wide open next time and brain storm with the people who are putting on the event and endorsing the event both on the superbowl side and city side, how we try to get more benefits for all businesses in san francisco and how we try to mitigate the negative impacts because sometimes you just will be too close and have to know how to prepare. shut your door and take a vacation, what do you do because you incured additional cost by having to over staff and you don't think about the additional cost that are incured. it isn't just the loss it is the additional stuff-we built more product to make sure that our local retailers wouldn't be short. it was highly unnecessary because they sold less than they normally do and we sell a lot of product at the farey building and it is very consistent and have multiple years of data so can easily quantify the effect over that period of time. >> even [inaudible] the chart er yacht companies were down. the