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A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit

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Re: A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit

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Post by sjg007 »

alexbeloi wrote: post #65
malux85 wrote: post #31

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That's 800 credit card transactions a second --- thats people making deposits into their accounts to bet with. (btw I think that's peak - I'm not 100% sure) The frontends (where the casino / betting games run) do a lot more than this, but they work against the balance in the account, it's the payment gateway that's doing 800/s

Why does a payment gateway need deep learning? I can't imagine an online betting system doing fraud detection on deposits.

Well, I think random forests on a feature set probably plays a big role and is probably easier. But to use a deep neural network maybe, you might be able to get away with a convolutional network to extract higher order associations among some input set.

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Post by jasonkester »

libdjml wrote: post #154
jasonkester wrote: post #152

It's sad that the comments here mostly fall into a few categories: - "This is only a few people, so not something that could affect the rest of us" - "Those people had a specific skill, so the rest of us couldn't possibly make that much" - "This is only happening in the Bay Area, so anybody living anywhere else shouldn't expect to make that much" It's maddening. How about, instead, when we see another datapoint showi…

I applaud the positive spin, but the responses are due to the headline which suggests these salaries are normal. If an article said “supermarket checkout clerks are earning over $1m” and the article explained that a couple of retired property investors decided to work at a supermarket, would you respond the same? The harsh reality is, very few people will have the tenacity, intelligence, and opportunities to become a…

You're doing it again. If you truly believe you can't bring in that kind of money unless you're "top 20" then you're never going to try.

And it's to your detriment, because there are a lot more than 20 people making that kind of money in software today.

Note further that AI is in fact a subset of software. There is nothing magic about it that somebody like yourself or anybody else here can't pick up.

You seem to grudgingly accept that doing so can make you a lot more money. But still you go out of your way to insist that you, personally can't do that.

Why?

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Post by najra »

gaius wrote: post #168
najra wrote: post #163

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would also be weird to omit the years entirely tho, right?

Not really, if they were right at the beginning of your career - quite normal for people to trim their CVs like that, esp. these days.

that makes sense, just be weird if you dont finish your masters to have you bachelor, then a few years of nothing, and then your first job. I'd put the master course there too, but perhaps include a note that you didn't graduate?

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Post by gaius »

najra wrote: post #173
gaius wrote: post #168

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Not really, if they were right at the beginning of your career - quite normal for people to trim their CVs like that, esp. these days.

that makes sense, just be weird if you dont finish your masters to have you bachelor, then a few years of nothing, and then your first job. I'd put the master course there too, but perhaps include a note that you didn't graduate?

People do all sort of weird stuff on LinkedIn, I take it all with a pinch of salt!

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Post by GFischer »

kilbuz wrote: post #58
GFischer wrote: post #42

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So I can do 800 credit card transactions a second I should get a 100x raise? I knew I was underpaid, but not that much ! :P

Close. You need to build a product with which 800 people per second want to perform a credit card transaction.

Yeah. That would be my employers then, and they're definitely making more than that :)

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Post by matte_black »

gaius wrote: post #153
matte_black wrote: post #126

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If you drop out of grad school is there a way to prove you were ever actually even in grad school? Or can anyone say they were in grad school but just didn’t finish?

There is something I see on LinkedIn from people I happen to know never graduated: they list the years they were at university and their subject. It’s not technically lying, and most people never notice.

I’m pretty close to just listing that I was a Stanford graduate and seeing how it affects my LinkedIn profile. Seems like no one would really bother to check anything anyway.

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Post by iagovar »

shams93 wrote: post #149
tomrod wrote: post #69

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From what I've seen, away from the coasts between $70k - $100k. PhD adds about 25k-40k to the figure, depending on industry.

Yeah I make 100k and live in Los Angeles sometimes I can't eat food I work remote so my coworkers outside cifornia don't have it too bad. But despite 30 years of experience I'm hardly worth enough to this society to let me eat food or have a roof over my head. 100k is about average for LA but at one point I had a job that paid me only 45k with no benefits demanding I generate a sentiment analysis system I literally h…

When I read comments like yours I wonder why don't you people move of of LA. I'm not in the US so maybe I'm missing something.

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Post by potbelly83 »

yoz-y wrote: post #165
kisstheblade wrote: post #123

And I have yet to see any "AI" worth anything. Some image recognition and rudimentary translation engines maybe, but "AI", way overhyped.

AI is driving cars and planes, beating experts at disease diagnostic, ruining popular competitive board games... But as the definition goes, anything that can be done today is already old hat.

Not really, planes are driven by control theory algos which existed long before all the deep learning hype.

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Post by mygo »

endymi0n wrote: post #151
TeMPOraL wrote: post #137

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To not have situations like I did. I've almost done my masters - I finished all the courses, but did not submit my graduate thesis in time - so I have what we call "absolutorium", i.e. finished the program without pursuing a degree. The other day, a friend from my alma mater wanted me to come and do a semester of programming classes as an "industry consultant". It was all arranged properly and I was getting ready wit…

To be honest, the academic field is about the only field in which it perfectly makes sense to finish a degree, I mean, what else can you boast with if you have none? The other three reasons are visa (proof of "ability"), wanting to work in government (if you really, really want that) or early-stage startups that need Ivy-League credentials for their investors, because they don't have anything else to offer. Other tha…

> I mean, what else can you boast with if you have none?

Your actual contributions to the field.

of which, comp sci is one of the few fields where you don’t need an academic degree to have significant contributions to the field

But I read the other day about a biologist who just recently made a major contribution to graph theory, as an amateur mathematician?

He can come speak at all of my cookouts.

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