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by d--b 888 days ago
Back in school in 2004, I had to make a choice: go into quantitative finance, the stuff was piping hot, and people there made a lot of money OR follow my interest in AI/neural nets, possibly not making much.

I chose finance, then the crises kept hitting. I don't regret it, because I'm still very employable and I did make some money. But to me it's a bit of a missed opportunity.

The point is: don't look at what is hype now, look at what could be good in a few years. My guess is that the next huge thing is robotics.