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Not unusual for people at the top of their game. I just turned down a 2M a year offer, and I have a friend who is making 2.9M USD. It's just a value propositio
by malux85 9y ago
Not unusual for people at the top of their game. I just turned down a 2M a year offer, and I have a friend who is making 2.9M USD. It's just a value proposition, he makes the company a lot more than 2.9 million a year, and when you negotiate you negotiate on value (and not on time) then you can justify these salaries.
- miketery 9y agoWhat qualifications or degrees do these people posses?
- malux85 9y agoIt's experience in the two examples I gave : I singlehandedly built my company : RAMM Science (https://ramm.science https://ramm.science) And he singlehandedly built one of Europes largest online betting system backends (and scaled it to 800 transactions a second using Deep Learning, Kafka and a Hadoop cluster)
- iampims 9y agoThat’s impressive. Time to hire a front end engineer and designer though.
- zitterbewegung 9y agoYou can do with a bad front end design if you are doing b2b since you don’t get leads from your websites but instead from meeting people .
- jedbrown 9y agoIs that a real company? Your website is all "lorem ipsum ...". https://ramm.science/x/signalbox/ https://ramm.science/x/signalbox/
- malux85 9y agohahahaha you made me slap my forehead, someone did tell me that the other day and I forgot to fix it. thanks for reminding me!
- the_watcher 9y agoI'm not seeing any lorem ipsum at this url.
- tzakrajs 9y agoIs 800 transactions per second good? It seems like a low number but what do I know. I am impressed that Europe's largest betting system only does 800 transactions per second.
- malux85 9y agoThat'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
- alexbeloi 9y agoWhy does a payment gateway need deep learning? I can't imagine an online betting system doing fraud detection on deposits.
- malux85 9y agoIt was a bit simplistic of me to summarize it as a payment gateway, it was actually 50-60% of their backend systems that was enhanced, it was called their "Big Data Project" They do do fraud detection on the deposits, because of anti-money-laundering. The DL models also monitor various other types of abuse (bonus abuse and in-game abusers). They also are experimenting with Deep Reenforcement Learning to actually play some of the games
- sjg007 9y agoI thought bots weren't allowed? Also a DL bot by the house would probably have an unfair advantage.
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- GFischer 9y agoSo 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
- ashelmire 9y agoGet rid of the font-weight on your site, it makes the text unreadable. But good work making something and becoming successful!
- charlesdm 9y agoDegrees don't matter. (Business focused) results and a track record of delivering do. Still impressive remuneration though -- he must be adding tens of millions in profits to the bottom line.
- nvarsj 9y agoAnd/or good at convincing people he provides that much value.
- tensor 9y agoResults don't really matter either, you just need to convince people that you are valuable. Many people in business don't have any sort of "provable" results but have excellent people skills.
- kirykl 9y agoAgreed, Results generally only matter for the low level employee and the CEO. In between you can people your way to a career
- 7figures 9y agoDegrees matter deeply among the untalented in my experience. I have one of those fancy pee HUDs, but I only whip it out when I'm dealing with the above sort.
- JonRB 9y agoGenuinely curious - what do you do?
- malux85 9y agoIn my profile
- roymurdock 9y agoHe puts smart assets on a blockchain and controls them with AI https://hydrachain.io/ https://hydrachain.io/
- Radim 9y agoThese RAMM sites seem a hotch-potch of vaguely related buzzwords, blurred images and unrelated company logos. Did you see the laundry list of "Current Customer Use Cases" under https://ramm.science/x/signalbox/ https://ramm.science/x/signalbox/? I respect fake-it-till-you-make to some degree, but I find too much "spinning" actually hurts the ML industry (though no doubt profitable for the spin artists). Communication style straight from the ICO world.
- etaioinshrdlu 9y agoI thought this was a joke, but it turns out to be true. This is the world we live in.
- fergie 9y agoAfter reading the article I am genuinely unsure whether you are joking or not.
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- einstok 9y agoFake it till you make it dude
- aje403 9y agoHahaha
- opsiprogram 9y agoWhat is considered to be "top of game" in deep learning in your experience... does that apply to just researchers like Ian Goodfellow who come up with completely novel methods for ML algorithms, or does it extend as far as people who are just using the methods that others developed effectively or in new ways? I know thats a weird question, but I am planning on looking into deep learning jobs after finishing my (MS) curious what the market value is for people who have experience implementing the systems , vs the people inventing new architectures. Because I won't have a PHD... It seems like somewhere along the way its a pretty extreme jump to ask for 1,2M or even 500K instead of just 100K~200K... wondering if you have any advice for how someone new might prove themselves... I guess beyond the standard stuff (have a nice github, try to replicate papers etc...)
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- chillydawg 9y agoI think a smart, hard working person who re-uses modern results from others well and in potentially new ways can create a vast amount of value. Short term, more than the top guys, as a lot of their work may be speculative, and yours would be getting-it-done. Long term, they'll invent some method that leaves you in the dust, but that's fine, just learn that too!