Deep Learning the Stock Market

In the past few months I've been fascinated with "Deep Learning", especially its applications to language and text. I've spent the bulk of my career in financial technologies, mostly in algorithmic trading and alternative data services. You can see where this is going. I wrote this to get my ideas straight in my head. While I've become a "Deep Learning" enthusiast, I don't have too many opportunities to brain dump an idea in most of its messy glory.