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I would literally pay to subscribe to a comments feed on posts like this. It's so obvious and so powerful, I'm sitting here kicking myself for not thinking of
by apathy 10y ago
I would literally pay to subscribe to a comments feed on posts like this. It's so obvious and so powerful, I'm sitting here kicking myself for not thinking of it first.
Nearly every time I've put in a successful patent, that last bit ("god damn it! Why didn't I think of that?") comes up. The other times are derived from clinical trials in rare populations (whereupon other trialists say "god damn it! Why didn't I think of measuring that?").
The idea being, look for simple ideas like this, jump into the market second, and split the market for a while. Then when it gets too crowded, jump to the next-best-idea in the queue. Could be very profitable in this big ML transition.
- amelius 10y agoEven they didn't think of it first. I heard about this application of ML about a year ago. For every "why didn't I think of that?", there's probably a bunch of companies already doing that.
- xapata 10y agoThis idea is decades old.
- apathy 10y agoI don't doubt it, but the same could be said of ML in general. Being in the right place at the right time counts for a lot.
- xapata 10y agoI'm not sure how that follows. Folks have been using statistical machine learning techniques to analyze machine sounds for at least a decade in my experience, and probably since the 80s according to other comments here. Therefore, if you subscribed to a newsletter of articles like this one and tried to launch competitor companies, you wouldn't be second to market, but yet another in a crowded field.
- apathy 10y agoPossibly. I was thinking along the lines of "look at idea, see if easily, reliably, and cheaply implemented, assess market & competition, decide accordingly". Hell, even that could probably be automated. Hmm. ;-)