Lacuna/Labs
deep-finance-wasserstein-cohort
deep purple
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NAME

deep-finance-wasserstein-cohort — "Your Etsy and eBay customers differ mostly on price tier; geography is similar. Don't serve them the same email."

SYNOPSIS

id deep-finance-wasserstein-cohort tier deep-purple section §22. Finance — AI/subsystem + deep-purple cluster (37) trigger operator-asked shape SINGLE

DESCRIPTION

Earth Mover's Distance: how much 'work' would it take to morph one cohort into another, dirt-pile to dirt-pile? Tells you which two cohorts are genuinely different and on which dimension.

"Your Etsy and eBay customers differ mostly on price tier; geography is similar. Don't serve them the same email."

MECHANISM

DATAyour cortexFITWassersteinPOSTERIORcredible bandFORECASTdecision

not-yet-implemented — no cart file at curator-web/src/scheme/carts/…/deep-finance-wasserstein-cohort.sks

EXAMPLES

Sakura uses this when she's comparing two cohorts and you want "how different, exactly?" Wasserstein distance measures it as a transport cost — the work to morph one distribution into the other. "Etsy vs eBay buyers differ mostly on price tier; geography is similar. Don't email them the same thing."

TIER

deep purple
deep reasoning · batched · dollars per run

FITNESS

Not yet

This method only gives a real answer above a sample threshold. Running it on a small shop produces a confidence band the size of the universe — useless. When the shop crosses the threshold, this lights up.

SEE ALSO

HISTORY

canonical source: curator/docs/AUTOMATIONS-CANONICAL.md · §22-finance-aisubsystem-deep-purple-cluster-37
last regenerated: 2026-06-05 20:31 UTC (mechanical — edits land in the MD or sidecars, not here)

KNOWN BUGS

(none recorded — flag in AUTOMATIONS-CANONICAL.md or open an issue against the cart file)