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I have been playing with alternative ways to do machine learning on and off for a few years now. Some experiments went very well.

I am never sure if it is a waste of time or has some value.

If you guys had some unique ML technology that is different to what all the others do, what would you do with it?

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Start with the assumption that someone has already done it... Do a thorough literature survey... Ask experts working on the most similar thing. Don't be disheartened if you weren't the first; ideas don't have to be original to have value; some ideas need reviving from time to time, or were ahead of their time when first discovered.

ML is still fairly new topic and if you have some idea there is high chance that nobody actually tried it yet

Create a demo of it doing -something-. Literally anything. Then show it off and see where it goes.

Write a paper about it. Post it on arxiv.org. Contact some open minded researchers on twitter or here (show HN) for critique.

You have to be affiliated with an institution to submit to arxiv.

You don’t strictly need an institutional affiliation, but it makes things easier for sure. Arxiv has an endorsement process you can go through to post without an affiliation

https://arxiv.org/help/endorsement

Sounds like we are in very similar positions and have a very similar question :). My only real plan so far is to try and beat or match SOTA on a recent benchmark from a large corporate / research lab, give them an email and hope they are willing to talk to you.

Demo speaks louder than words. If you don't want to go into the details of how it works, it would still be interesting to just see where it over and under performs compared to existing systems.

Absolutely! Also, if possible, a Colab (or plain Jupiter notebook) and data would be good.

I’d make a blog and post about my experiments.

And a video too, please :)

Host it on a $5 VPS with full internet access and "see what happens".

I would make a "Show HN" post

Don't burn the capabilities commons. You probably don't have anything, in which case, why bother people? If you do have something, that advances AI capabilities and shortens the time before AGI; and while nobody actually has anything resembling a viable plan for surviving that, the fake plans tend to rely on having more time rather than less time.

A bit LARPy, don't you think?

> what would you do with it?

Use the "proof is in the pudding" method:

Do something with it - preferably useful - that no one else can.

If you do end up posting any sort of musings on this topic, I'd be really interested in taking a look.

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