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by vi1rus 3573 days ago
Is this the article you are referencing?

http://www.feld.com/archives/2011/10/be-on-fire.html

Cause that picture is now my new wallpaper...

Also it sounds like you have a similar path to mine. Launch stuff, fail, launch again stop mid way when no traction, launch, fail.

Mind if I ask what you are doing that having 5 clients is all you need to be self-sufficient?
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malux85 3573 days ago
Yes that's the article! I love that picture too.

I am doing media monitoring, I collect vast amounts of data on social networks, p2p, rss, webscraping ... then built reporting tools on top of it - high level trend reporting, customer segmentation for acquisition and brand targeting, planogram computing based on collaborative filtering, an entire media and brand intelligence platform.

I also do Forex trading with TensorFlow, but that's only making about 70-80k a year, which is probably a living wage, but not if you're in London and have an insatiable appetite for GPU's like me ;)

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tinco 3573 days ago
I feel like calling out the humblebrag, but that's just impressive man.
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bytefactory 3573 days ago
> I also do Forex trading with TensorFlow

This is the second time today I'm reading about "solving X with TensorFlow", which I find very interesting. It's not, "solving X with machine intelligence/AI/an application I wrote". I don't really have a point, just thought it was interesting!

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fspear 3573 days ago
> I also do Forex trading with TensorFlow, but that's only making about 70-80k a year, which is probably a living wage, but not if you're in London and have an insatiable appetite for GPU's like me ;)

Please teach me how to do this. I will pay you for your time.

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malux85 3573 days ago
I'm developing a Deep Learning platform that helps with rapid data ingestion and model creation and training, all with a web GUI. It's intended to be an "accelerator" to take all of the boring engineering out and allows you to focus on the data science.

I'm about 1-2 weeks away from launching into beta, if you're interested I can provide you with a machine, a license for the platform, and consulting on how to search for profitable strategies.

My contact details are in my profile :)

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mohsinr 3573 days ago
Great thanks so much for sharing. Here is video version I found in the comments https://youtu.be/z1x3BZjU5Pw
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