Thanks Siraj! I've just started working with a few clients, it took forever just to secure the first project as you said. Secured a big project recently, and very happy. But the challenges are tough! I'm a designer but want to build my programming skills to work on even bigger projects. Love your content, you're a big inspiration!
Geez man, how is it possible that you’re exactly the person I want to be five years from now. I’m so happy to see you thrive and I just really want to be here too one day. Does anyone else on the internet make content like Siraj does or is living a similar lifestyle because this content is great
You are awesome. I’ve run my own businesses in other industries before transitioning into AI, and I’m happy and impressed that you suggest having a business account. You’ve just helped a lot of people with something they usually miss.
Spot on analysis Siraj - one comment I would add: learn to market yourself and close the deal! AI programming is a top tier skill, so freelancers deserve top tier wages. Unfortunately, if you can't market yourself and sell the client on your value, it's very hard to capture your worth from the market. Nobody is happy when they're in a race to the bottom.
Thank you Siraj for sharing your experience with us. Because you can find technical content in books very easily, but a book can't tell you an experience. You don't how hard it is for anyone who lives outside any city to find someone who shares his professional experience. Great work!!!
looool I've signed up for Upwork many many times using Machine Learning, AI and Data Science as my skills and all I get is: "We’ve reviewed your profile and currently our marketplace doesn’t have opportunities for your area of expertise."
Hi Siraj thx for everything!!!. Can you make a video where explaining how to do a portfolio, and how to make it known by potential clients? By the way, I admire you.
It's very good and inspiring advice, but in my experience, freelancing can get tedious so fast. Especially if you are male with spouse and kids, for the following reasons : 1. You now have the luxury of 24 hour non-stop nagging from your wife/girlfriend. And kids.... they will disturb you. all-the-time. 2. The loneliness and no one to talk and gossiping about life and work will get you crazy. Sometimes bosses are needed to complain and bitch about. 3. You can live your life in beautiful touristic beach side area in developing country for several weeks, after that it will get dull. 4. Sometimes we just need to get out of our house, far from spouse, kids. Meet new unique characters, flirt with new hot interns etc. 5. The warm feeling of of having fixed income and health insurance cannot be replaced. My advice is try to do freelancing while you have full time job, take a month off and go to Bali to live off the beach and start doing that, see if it fits you..
I've checked out of curiosity some of the listings on upwork. Well .. $200 budget for training NN for a mobile platform, offer only for experienced developers :-) No ... it's not an hourly rate, it's the budget for the whole project.
Indeed, the supply and demand on traditional platforms have become poor. For example, in Germany, you don't find big companies on the 'web.' Sample: speech recognition job for >6 months. 20% of the time needs to spent with the client in-house. Payment similar to Silicon Valley, but it's a challenging job and not permanent.
With Upwork and Freelancer, you have to be incredibly selective of clients. Especially starting out, it's good to find clients who know what they want (even better if they can do it themselves), but simply don't have the time. They're going to have job descriptions with good details. Feel free to ask questions when applying for the job and don't accept the job until you have satisfying answers. I turn down so many more clients than I accept, which hurts at times I need the money. Bad clients happen and they'll eat more time and money than it would cost to avoid them.
Something else to look out for: on an international community, there are folks out there who are just as talented but have a much lower cost of living. You really cannot compete with them. Instead, use search features that restrict to your country. There are clients who would rather deal with "locals" and pay more. There are usually ways to filter for that.
Hi raj.my self Rajeev. I Completed my linear algebra . it take 3 weeks to become pro.i learn by doing python coding each formula and also solving problem using python.best way to learn python to become pro in python thanks Raj.
lol i am not following mit courses ok. I have coursera.give me u Gmail account i will share u the videos for free.they will teach u with python programming and linear algebra.how to use in ml problems.
Excellent info. Siraj definitely needs to work on his slow/normal speed talking since it sounds very stilted. Need to keep it sounding conversational rather than robotic/script.
Hey Siraj, great content and awesomeness as usual. Re: publishing work (articles, code, etc.) - I stop myself because I don't think there is anything original in learning something off the internet and then spitting out a different version of the same. But I see a lot of blog posts explaining basic concepts, even though there are more authoritative content already. I can never catch myself doing that. How do I go about creating content and sharing, while also not being a copy cat?
Hi , Siraj it's been really excited watching your videos one more good video... Can any one please guide me. If I choose NLP as specific in artificial intelligence then how should we move about.... More interested in chatbot ... Stuck helpless Thanks Hari
Even though you never replied to my comments I still hope some day you'll consult with me about some machine learning ideas. Untill then, I'll keep watching and learning more about machine learning in hopes that I can make some of my ideas on my own. Soon.
Thanks for awesome video! Any info on average time taken to complete projects offered to freelancers? Or whether certain kinds of problems are more likely to be offered out to freelancers rather than permanent hires?
Hi, Siraj. Do you do kaggle competitions? If so, do you use it as a portfolio? It seems like the best way to show a potential employer that you've the skills to solve these big-data problems.
Keshav Tulsyan I have experience with computer vision and seq2seq. But I think I'm not yet good enough in these fields to actually work as a freelancer, so I would prefer just simpler tasks like implementing stuff in Python or setting up a WordPress website etc.
Really , you're goon enough with CV , that's great cause I also learn ML and DL applied specifically to CV so if instead of begin a freelancing you're interested to build a Start-up , let me now ....(I'm 20)
@@ivoriankoua3916 Ivorian Koua I am 17 and I have already done great work with AI and computer vision. check my github : github.com/bacemtayeb or medium : medium.com/bacemtayeb. Contact me if you are interested about the startup thing : bacemtayeb@gmail.com
My experience on Upwork has been that most people want to pay effectively less than $10/hr, and a surprising number of them are just wanting you to do their university homework for them. Once you take out crazy self-employment taxes, Upworks 25% fee, and the fact that sometimes they end up not paying, I earn significantly more with a proper minimum wage job. How can people actually earn $20+ take-home pay doing freelance ML without having contacts inside big companies?
I'm curious why you posted Bunq? It has a 1.5% charge for non-euros (payments or withdrawals within the US). Was this directed to viewers in the EU or am I missing something? Cool concept, but seems best for the euro zone. Also, cofounders lab was acquired by "Business RockstarsTV". I can't even tell what that business does from their website. Short video promos? Anyway, interesting links but there are probably more helpful ones out there.
