[sevagh]

If you want to work on machine learning problems, you can try your luck at winning AICrowd/Kaggle competitions. Some have cash prizes:

https://www.aicrowd.com/ https://www.kaggle.com/competitions

[cweill]

What do you think the expected return is that good on these competitions? Especially since the number of hours required to do well can be extremely high.

[sevagh]

It's definitely not guaranteed income (the competition is stiff if you're not on top of your field).

But it's an option.