will you also provide compute resources?
Unfortunately not for this first batch. If there is a second batch after this (~10 months from now), then yes.
Readit Newsnotacat commented on Show HN: Get paid to do your own ML research · Posted by u/notacat
Is it acceptable/allowable to do a grant application as a team of 2, or would each person need to submit individual applications even though the project is related?
Yes. You can submit an application as a team. Both of you should be present during calls related to the application. After that, it's ok if only one person can do the reporting/communication, even though it's better if you can both attend. There would be 2 grant contracts (one for each person individually, with the total split between the two)
You might be able to reach the intended audience at lesswrong forum. Can also ask Zvi (https://thezvi.substack.com/), astralcodexten, Marginal Revolution to publicize this.
Yes, please reach out and repost.
I didn't get the feeling that lesswrong is the right place for such a post. Is it? What tag should I use? Anything else I should know when posting there for these this kind of content?
Can I apply with a product? What is research in your terms? What happens after the grant is over?
I was building an open-source alternative to Perplexity: https://omniplex.ai Now I am adding custom agents actions to performs tasks on behalf of the user requests.
Demo: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1cw0ksn/my_project_...
Is this interesting enough?
You can send a regular email, I'm happy to chat about it.
I consider it outside the intended scope of the grant because your project (as I understand it) is about applying existing techniques to build a product. What I'm looking for is work that tries to understand or improve on them, or create new ones.
Given that your previous HN comments have stated your primary goal is making progress toward AGI, are you just funding methodological research or are you open to applications within ML, e.g. something like AlphaFold?
I'm interested in anything that can help us get a better understanding of ML-related topics: generalization, tranformers, optimization...
So I have a bias in favor of experimentation and theoretical stuff, and less so about practical applications (eg AlphaFold as you mention). With the caveat that sometimes these applications do lead to discovery.
notacat commented on Ask HN: I want to explore/fund a videogame idea, where do I start? · Posted by u/notacat
Whether a game idea is feasible doesn't matter so much on whether its 2d/3d/isometric etc., its the mechanics. For example, nintendo showed that they prototyped many mechanics that would wind up in breath of the wild in a version of the original zelda game and found it to be fun.
I think the answer to the question is already in your post. You said noita is pretty close so why not just play that? That's where you start.
Now, if you want some unsolicited financial advise do not dare spending 50k-2000k on a game development project if you don't have the skills/desire to work on it yourself
I want to get involved in the design/prototyping. My skills are Deep Learning, a bit of statistics, finance and frontend dev, and I played a lot of games. I'd say if I spent a few years on it myself, I eventually could make a prototype, but I feel given my position I have more leverage if I just act as an investor + co-designer. I also know this is a very risky investment and I understand that the most likely scenario is that nothing comes out of it (I made other similar investments in the past)
I said noita is the closest I found, but it's still pretty far from what I envision. I also understand that this idea is probably not enough to make a game compelling. It's more a mechanic that could be added to a broader game. There are many possibilities there which should be mostly chosen by an experienced team or studio and not by me.