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Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by malux85 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:38PM (#16880402)
It's experience in the two examples I gave : I singlehandedly built my company : RAMM Science (https://ramm.science)

And he singlehandedly built one of Europes largest online betting system backends (and scaled it to 800 transactions a second using Deep Learning, Kafka and a Hadoop cluster)

Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by jedbrown on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:45PM (#16880445)
Is that a real company? Your website is all "lorem ipsum ...". https://ramm.science/x/signalbox/
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by malux85 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:55PM (#16880516)
hahahaha you made me slap my forehead, someone did tell me that the other day and I forgot to fix it. thanks for reminding me!
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by the_watcher on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:55PM (#16880522)
I'm not seeing any lorem ipsum at this url.
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by tzakrajs on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:53PM (#16880506)
Is 800 transactions per second good? It seems like a low number but what do I know. I am impressed that Europe's largest betting system only does 800 transactions per second.
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by malux85 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @06:02PM (#16880565)
That's 800 credit card transactions a second --- thats people making deposits into their accounts to bet with. (btw I think that's peak - I'm not 100% sure)

The frontends (where the casino / betting games run) do a lot more than this, but they work against the balance in the account, it's the payment gateway that's doing 800/s

Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by alexbeloi on Thursday April 19, 2018 @07:02PM (#16880925)
Why does a payment gateway need deep learning? I can't imagine an online betting system doing fraud detection on deposits.
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by malux85 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @07:24PM (#16881036)
It was a bit simplistic of me to summarize it as a payment gateway, it was actually 50-60% of their backend systems that was enhanced, it was called their "Big Data Project"

They do do fraud detection on the deposits, because of anti-money-laundering. The DL models also monitor various other types of abuse (bonus abuse and in-game abusers). They also are experimenting with Deep Reenforcement Learning to actually play some of the games

Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by sjg007 on Friday April 20, 2018 @09:08AM (#16884429)
I thought bots weren't allowed? Also a DL bot by the house would probably have an unfair advantage.
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by sjg007 on Friday April 20, 2018 @09:11AM (#16884441)
Well, I think random forests on a feature set probably plays a big role and is probably easier. But to use a deep neural network maybe, you might be able to get away with a convolutional network to extract higher order associations among some input set.
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by PeterisP on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:06AM (#16882493)
An online betting system has to do fraud detection on a higher level than random merchants, since they can expect to be a target for large scale non-amateur fraudsters, and just as in any other business, if your incoming payments are fraudulent, you lose that money.
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by cocoablazing on Friday April 20, 2018 @07:58AM (#16884030)
Perhaps for anti-money laundering compliance.
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by iampims on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:42PM (#16880424)
That’s impressive. Time to hire a front end engineer and designer though.
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by zitterbewegung on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:47PM (#16880462)
You can do with a bad front end design if you are doing b2b since you don’t get leads from your websites but instead from meeting people .
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by cabaalis on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:53PM (#16880510)
This is absolutely true. Our company's website leaves much to be desired (and I'm in charge of it!) but we do not solicit or receive leads from it.
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by malux85 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @05:56PM (#16880528)
yeah this is correct, I get sales through word of mouth and resellers, the website is really just a holding page
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by GFischer on Thursday April 19, 2018 @06:17PM (#16880659)
So I can do 800 credit card transactions a second I should get a 100x raise? I knew I was underpaid, but not that much ! :P
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by kilbuz on Thursday April 19, 2018 @06:43PM (#16880824)
Close. You need to build a product with which 800 people per second want to perform a credit card transaction.
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by weavie on Friday April 20, 2018 @08:22AM (#16884152)
Easily done if you don't care which way the transaction goes!
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by GFischer on Friday April 20, 2018 @10:20AM (#16884950)
Yeah. That would be my employers then, and they're definitely making more than that :)
Re:A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonp... by ashelmire on Thursday April 19, 2018 @08:59PM (#16881396)
Get rid of the font-weight on your site, it makes the text unreadable.

But good work making something and becoming successful!