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Ideas are cheap, but the skills to engineer ML pipes and the knowledge requirements to grok models are not. And the cost of testing some ideas not is not cheap
by angel_j 7y ago
Ideas are cheap, but the skills to engineer ML pipes and the knowledge requirements to grok models are not. And the cost of testing some ideas not is not cheap either.
Lots of people have legit skills, high level math, pro software engineering, actual ML chops (I got mine), and probably significant learning in other sciences. But there is no door to walk through on that alone, only strange VC corridors and FAANGY career mazes.
There should be a wide door to support people with real skills taking chances. If 100K for so many silly startups is worth the gamble, so is the gamble on people who have gone the extra distance with their learning and experience.