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that's really impressive, congrats. for how much of that year and 2 months were you working solo ?
I spent 1 year learning about AI/ML with books and moocs. Then 1 year building a prototype. Then 1 year + 2 months as a team.
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We have a hard time believing it ourselves too. I did leave out that around 25M of it is profits reinvested over time and it did do well because we are in a bull market. Binance forces you to hold 11k BNB to be vip9 to get the best fees, we started buying it at around $15, it's worth now around $300 per BNB, and we also hold other cryptos as a side investment. The rest is algotrading profits. The initial investment w…
> it did do well because we are in a bull market You're not in a bull market. You're in fucking Wonderland. Please take this reply as an opportunity to provide evidence for your tremendous wealth. Nobody makes $100m without a footprint.
Hi. I went through this journey myself. I have a CS master degree, and always wanted to transition into AI research (focus on probabilistic programming, deep learning and self-play, but also simulation, learning-to-learn, bayesian inference, genetic algorithms). The initial plan was to self-learn machine learning, deep learning and statistics. I did that for 1 year, with the hope of joining on of the big AI labs afte…
This would be a challenge even if you had perfect foresight.
If you had gone all-in on Dogecoin, you would still only have ~5M.
Without a goal and process the institute will be a failure. It will fail to produce interesting results. It will fail to attract and grow talent. And it will fail to do well by the researchers who you are hoping to benefit.
In my own opinion, the best goal is something that you can derive a market signal for. For DeepMind, this was video game playing. For Paul Allen Institute, it is the ability to spin-off bets. If you try and sell something, you get a clear opinion of its value.
The process is also important. For a research institute, my suggestion is a periodic public interaction. There are many ways of garnering this; self-publishing reports, publishing in journals and conferences, attending (or better yet holding) conferences, increasing funding from public events, or seeking out collaborations with other institutions.
Hi. I went through this journey myself. I have a CS master degree, and always wanted to transition into AI research (focus on probabilistic programming, deep learning and self-play, but also simulation, learning-to-learn, bayesian inference, genetic algorithms). The initial plan was to self-learn machine learning, deep learning and statistics. I did that for 1 year, with the hope of joining on of the big AI labs afte…
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Very impressive and congratulations for playing the game right, but the idea that 3% of all crypto use is from 5 people in SF ratifies a lot of my negative beliefs about the crypto world.
Where did you get SF from? I mean seems like a likely place but I don't think OP said that did they?
Hi. I went through this journey myself. I have a CS master degree, and always wanted to transition into AI research (focus on probabilistic programming, deep learning and self-play, but also simulation, learning-to-learn, bayesian inference, genetic algorithms). The initial plan was to self-learn machine learning, deep learning and statistics. I did that for 1 year, with the hope of joining on of the big AI labs afte…
> in 1 year and 2 months, we turned 40k of our own funds into [redacted]. This would be a challenge even if you had perfect foresight. If you had gone all-in on Dogecoin, you would still only have ~5M.
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> in 1 year and 2 months, we turned 40k of our own funds into [redacted]. This would be a challenge even if you had perfect foresight. If you had gone all-in on Dogecoin, you would still only have ~5M.
You have to assume that they also a) levered up and b) were doing some kind of arbitrage, not just HODLing. Color me skeptical but wilder things have been known to happen.
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> it did do well because we are in a bull market You're not in a bull market. You're in fucking Wonderland. Please take this reply as an opportunity to provide evidence for your tremendous wealth. Nobody makes $100m without a footprint.
Agree. Should be straightforward with blockchain and cryptographic signing.
> End goal as of now: assemble a few great minds, give them the space to work rent-free in a region with good academic infrastructure, ideally let them collaborate, watch the beauty of it. My advice is not to expect others to do the work for rent and a “stipend”. This isn’t a game. AI done wrong will be the end of us.
It's not like we will carelessly stumble upon world-ending technology. This is not a sci-fi movie.