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What’s funny is I’ve had this very idea but no AI skills or extra time to pull it off. Bravo!!

• jacobgorm 4y ago
  That is where I started ~5 years ago :-) Thanks!
  • losvedir 4y ago
    Really? Impressive! Can I ask how you went about learning it all then? Any books or online courses you can recommend?
    • jacobgorm 4y ago
      I learned by joining an early AI startup with some co-founders who knew about old-school AI (but didn't believe in backprob!), and then reading absolutely every ML paper I could find, following AI hotshots on Twitter, reading the darknet source code, and experimenting with pytorch. Eventually two of us left to start Vertigo.ai, and found a customer who would fund a fast object detector to run on a $18 Nano-PI. That was a fun challenge and forces me to think about how to make the AI run fast and with relatively low footprint. Today fast.ai might be a good starting point, definitely recommend going with pytorch, cloning cool projects from github, and going from there.
• capableweb 4y ago
  Yet another example that having ideas is worth close to 0, while being able to execute on your own or others ideas is worth > 0 :)
  • mromanuk 4y ago
    Yes. It's weird and forced when people tell you that ideas are super powerful, there is a good book "Made to stick" which is really cool. There's a section where they look at JFK's "get to the moon and back safely" as the driving force behind the whole thing. Thousands or millions before him, had the same idea, even the URSS was planning a trip. Even the travel is portrayed in a highly popular 1902 film. What set apart the moon landing of 1969 (by USA) was the execution.