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Ask HN: Any machine learning task to solve? I'll try to do it for free.

9 points by Konstantin ↗ HN
It's an experience and fun for me and a good chance for you to get a working prototype. I'm a NLP engineer and my passion is sequence processing. But all other ML tasks are fine. I'll try to solve it in several hours / few days and send you the results.

I am comfortable with Python (+numpy/scipy/sklearn/theano) and C (+blas/lapack), nvcc (cuda).

Please send me a description (and data) to: lightcaster _at_ gmail.com

You lose nothing. I give no warranties but I'll do my best. My current timezone is GMT+4.

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sadkingbilly
Have you tried Kaggle? There are some interesting projects on there.
Konstantin
yes I know. My motives are a bit different. Usually kaggle competition is like a sport - fighting for hundredth of a percent in a long run. Sometimes this is not really practical. Instead I would like to grab something from real life and make it work good enough (as it usually the case for a startup).

But kaggle is a cool place anyway.

solve
That's how I think too. Find the low-hanging fruit of real problems, instead of competing for a rounding error on constrained and slightly artificial problems.
ig1
Have you seen http://www.datakind.org/ ? - connecting Data Scientists to data problems faced by non-profits.
Konstantin
No I haven't seen it before. Thanks for the reference!
rfergie
I might have something for you - will check with the boss on Monday about potential privacy issues.

If I don't get back to you by Tuesday then please send me a reminder email.