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My name is Avi Marcus, I am a 29 year old, semi retired (sold my previous startup ) hacker from Israel. Started programming at 8, started CS in college when I w
by marcus 19y ago
My name is Avi Marcus, I am a 29 year old, semi retired (sold my previous startup ) hacker from Israel.
Started programming at 8, started CS in college when I was 13. Flunked out because I was bored at 15.
Always been interested in artificial intelligence, but a year and a half ago I read a book on the way the human brain works and suddenly I had a vision of something programmers missed in all of the machine learning algorithms they built, which is a basic part of the human cognitive process, and I suddenly understood how to add it to existing algorithms.
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- jkush 19y agoWe'll all look like fools if we cry "bullshit" and you happen to be right. But we'd look like even bigger fools if we just took your word for it.
- hhm 19y agoI think we have to do neither; if he's clever (and if he's done what he claims, he surely is) he's not trying for us to take his word for it, or for us to say he's a great genius and all that. He's just looking for a way to monetize his discovering, and I think it's right.
- marcus 19y agoFrom my experience genius isn't a boolean thing, people can be brilliant in somethings and horrible in other things. I try to acknowledge my limitations and ask for help in the things I suck at.
- hhm 19y agoThank you for your answer. I was curious about it, and I'm sure this info would be useful for anyone interested in contacting you.
- marcus 19y agoAdded my email to my YC news profile.
- robg 19y agoGoing out and winning the Netflix prize and/or KDD and refusing to release your code would bring you the best tests (and biggest paying customers) because of the publicity. I actually can't think of a better and faster way of building a business around machine learning. Beat the best teams in the world as an individual and you won't have to worry about how to make money any more.
- oPerrin 19y agoSounds like you read: "On Intelligence" - if so, cool, if not do so. Then do this: break CAPTCHA There are plenty of people who will pay for that, and a successful implementation of Hawkins/George system will be able to do so.
- marcus 19y agoLets try to stick to something ethical with either a positive impact on the world or at least without a negative one. Don't want the spam in the worlds Inboxes to be on my hands.