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"few days of work" for "tens of thousands of dollars" seems a bit absurd. Are you assuming they are making 10K per day? Seems a bit high. I would assume 200-300

• ak4g 10y ago
  The amount of time you can spend preparing the training data is unbounded. The number of times you can do the training with data that ends up not actually looking like what you see in-the-wild a week later is unbounded. When all is said and done, the yak-shaving alone will be tens of thousands.
• brudgers 10y ago
  At the rate of a couple of hundred bucks an hour that I'd expect to pay for a qualified consultant, 200 hours works out toward the high end of the few in "a few tens of thousands".
  • wlievens 10y ago
    How do you cram 200 hours into a few days?
    • LionessLover 10y ago
      Just like with the vast majority of project forecasts the "few days" is what you say to get the sale - internally or to outside clients. If you think it is that simple, well, I would like to sell you just a few days of machine learning expertise if you have a project... :) Even very simple tasks that you can let the intern do can - and often does - take days longer than projected.
    • brudgers 10y ago
      I think I misread the comment as hours.