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• predictive analytics i.e. for trading (https://github.com/fluquid/cryptocurrency)
• develop algos or just put up existing libraries/solutions for i.e. https://algorithmia.com/
• not sure about T&Cs, but might be interesting to solve simple Mechanical Turk tasks with AI. i.e. use Microsoft/Google speech-to-text for MT transcription tasks ;)
• demand for data scientists is really high right now; define a niche you are strong in and there are probably businesses within 10km of you that are looking for help
• remote contract work, but more full-time rather than ad-hoc (I used to work for scrapinghub.com)

There is no additional color information in a monochrome image.

>Colorful Image Colorization is an algorithm that takes in a black & white photos and returns the colorized version of it. The algorithm uses deep learning to classify objects/regions within the image and color them accordingly.

https://algorithmia.com/algorithms/deeplearning/ColorfulImageColorization

Bummer. I just landed [internal in-testing] support for hosting rust development on our platform for hosting algorithms, and I was planning to build a simple rust algorithm this week by hosting a leaf model, and making it the initial showcase example of running rust on our platform. I may still go down this road, but this announcement certainly knocks some wind out of my effort to turn a side project into an official part of our platform, but I understand the decision and wish you the best in subsequent ventures.

What frightens me is the method used to detect actual CP. Machine learning... works this way: https://algorithmia.com/blog/how-machine-learning-works

Which means they feed the algorithm actual CP to make it work.

And about terrorism... USA calls anything that doesn't benefit them financially "terrorism", "extremism" etc. Check ADL's "hate on display" database, they got triggered by numbers and if you say you're 100% sure of something you're censored.

Free speech? It doesn't exist anymore - you're using facts and you get jailed or cancelled.

Privacy is the only thing we can control, and we can do this by not using surveilled devices, so bring the hammer and ensure no single component in your phones remains intact or simply stop tolerating USA's bullshit and move to the EU. Benefits of living here: lower living costs, better and cheaper health care, less mental illnesses, better job opportunities (and you won't be surveilled into your personal life by your employer). Still, anywhere you are, don't use mainstream garbage or products from USA or China.

If you can write software solutions to a specific problem type then you can sell the solution on https://algorithmia.com/ without writing a whole program.

Its an interesting way to make money programming.

Sounds like you are on your way.

Good luck!

Two that I know of, that are sort of close to what you're talking about - are there more?

https://www.metamind.io/language/explore

https://algorithmia.com/algorithms

A distributed market has always existed. Some NLP corpuses have always been licensable for commercial purposes, usually at 4 to 5 figure rates and you had to directly contact the owner to negotiate the sale. Likewise with some NLP licenses that aren't licensed for commercial use, could be licensed for a fee.

No centralized marketplace existed for those and I imagine that the sales volume was rather low, but there has always been some kind of market. The general idea is feasible, but I expect that there will be several types of marketplaces that specialize in targeting different kinds of customers. E.g. very general purpose models that sell for cheap to many people, versus the highly-specialized narrow domain models that sell to just a few rich customers.

Like this?

Note top algorithms:

• Summarizer: Summarize english text
• Sentiment Analysis: Determine positive or negative sentiment from text
• Auto-Tag URL: Automatically generate keyword tags for a URL
• Nudity Detection: Detect nudity in pictures

Pretty much "AI on demand".

Hello, I am the developer of isitnude.com. The API endpoint for the algorithm is at https://algorithmia.com/algorithms/sfw/NudityDetection and anyone can integrate it into their site/service. Thanks for the comments and thanks for sharing it here!

I like how they put a Knuth quote on the bottom of their homepage, ripping it out of its context so hard that it flies beyond the cloud.

EDIT: OH MY GOD THAT CEO'S JAW: https://algorithmia.com/versioned/images/ef49166720d7b748a8ff56afe387f04b-aboutDiego.jpg

You should check out LatestNewsAPIfrom Specrom Analytics available for free (no credit card required). It returns a maximum of 100 results per call.

I am not sure if you have figured out a solution yet or not but let me plug a public news API from my company.

So I am a cofounder of Specrom Analytics, and for last five years or so we have been running a broad crawler as part of our social listening and media monitoring product offering. This basically indexes about 60,000 or so domains (mainly news sources, forums, etc). We perform run lots of NLP algorithms on it which drives up the subscription cost.

However, we noticed that it was preventing lots of developers and prospective startups from accessing our crawled data at low cost which is even more necessary in post covid world we live in.

Hence, we have decided to expose a portion of data through our LatestNewsAPI on Algorithmia platform. There are no credit cards required to sign up and you can make hundreds of API calls a month without even paying a cent.

Let me know if you want more local news than whats available there and I will be happy to send you a full list of 60,000 domains we are currently indexing and that should help you cover over 90% of local TV stations and newspapers in towns above 20,000 population in US.

Full disclosure, I work at Algorithmia.

I've used tools across different services, but Algorithmia has been the quickest way to productionize models. It supports a wide array of frameworks, and you only pay for what you use. You don't need to terminate workers like you would need to do in traditional cloud providers.

Full examples can be found here: https://algorithmia.com/developers/model-deployment/

Feel free to ask any additional questions.

Take a look at https://algorithmia.com/algorithms/deeplearning/DeepFilter and https://algorithmia.com/algorithms/media/VideoTransform

Right now it doesn't work on really long videos but anything short of 5 min works pretty well, cheap too.

EDIT: also pm me or ping us in intercom and reference this comment, we'll sort you out with some free trial credits.

I love sentiment analysis, but I don't need a slack nanny to tell me when my comments are negative/positive.

Also, algorithmia looks to be closed source and not free based on this link. What corpus is it using to evaluate sentences?

Alternatively, you can use something like nltk or textblob, built on nltk which are more flexible with defining corpus(corpii?) and are also free.

A user who submits materials (including photos, images, and media) into the Colorize It demo is not restricted in any way by Algorithmia as to how he/she uses the resulting materials afterwards. The Submissions to the Services section of our Terms and Conditions (https://algorithmia.com/terms) state that Algorithmia does not take an ownership interest in any materials submitted by a user, although we are granted a license to use those materials in connection with the Services, which allows us to create the resulting colorized versions of submitted materials.

The language you cited is from the Intellectual Property section of the Terms and Conditions; it only restricts a user's ability to use (rent, lease, loan, etc.) the technology constituting the Services. For example, a user can't modify or create derivative works of the Algorithmia applications or software, including the Algorithmia API.

Source: I am the CEO of Algorithmia and asked our lawyer to clarify. Hope this helps. Cheers.

I can't find the colorizer anywhere on github. Are you sure it's open source? I just found a demo.

https://algorithmia.com is a marketplace for APIs.

 

https://emailhunter.co/pricing has an API and paid tiers.

 

You can probably find some here too - http://www.programmableweb.com/

The algorithm behind it doesn't appear to use any human body part feature detection. It builds a skin color distribution model from a test set, then uses it to join regions of detected skin, and if large portions of the image are skin regions, it will have higher confidence that the image contains nudity.

Most body painted subjects won't match the expected chromaticity for human skin, so it won't detect these as skin regions.

yes, creating an API is expensive, dev hours , infrastructure and maintenance and much more. using a proven solution is pivotal to companies who want to move fast and offer digital services.

you can also check out byvalue.org where people can request APIs to be suggested to them according to the specific task need to solve.

and for enterprises that want to do the same with ML you can use algorithmia.com

Seems similar to https://algorithmia.com . They used to be a marketplace where you could upload your model and charge for it. It looks like they changed recently to something else.

honorable mentions :

Rapidapi.com - API marekplace (monetization)

byvalue.org - API developer platform (infra + monetization)

algorithmia.com - ML focused API marketplace (infra + monetization)

https://algorithmia.com/algorithms/vagrant/ColorSchemeExtraction will provide an API based way of generating the color set. Or something similar on algorithmia.com.

Getting that onto an existing image would be interesting.

Such a great pic! I hope they recover fast and I'am sorry I can't help with the colors.

Actualy, try coloring via this website: Use Case Gallery - Algorithmia

I'm pretty sure there are people here in this sub that could do it better, but this website did a great job with a pic of my father.

We have recently made our email database available through a rest API via Algorithmia platform. You get 10,000 free credits when you signup for Algorithmia and there is no credit card required. Please use it and let us know.

We also have a free API for verifying and validating email domains, and people search API to query for more details about a person.

Check it out and let us know!!

check out LatestNewsAPI. It's free to use and no credit card required but you will have to generate API keys by signing up from Algorithmia.

thanks for the reply! we tried using google cloud functions as the client-facing proxy, but that has been problematic. we just want to abstract away as much of the scaling infrastructure as possible. do you know of any frameworks similar to cortext for google cloud? or any startups that handle everything? algorithmia.com seemed promising except for the issues mentioned.

>Gradient Deployments

Thanks for sharing. Can you highlight differences between you and https://algorithmia.com/? We need a simple way to deploy production models with exposed API end points.

They entered the market as an ML API marketplace - build your own model, host it with them, charge for it.

https://algorithmia.com/tags/marketplace

Seems as though it wasn’t profitable as they appear to be focusing much more on the hosting / delivery of highly available models.

This one could be interesting for you: https://algorithmia.com/algorithms/algorithmiahq/DeepFashion

Event though it's the same name, this dataset is different from the publicly availaible one. And though it's not open source, it can be queried via their API. And has object detection. :)

See if you can find the 1080p MPEG2 rip of My Immortal that came from MHD back in the day. I lost my copy some years back and haven't been able to find it since.

Once you have that highest-quality source, use FFMpeg to split it into images (should be somewhere between 5000 and 8000 images), then you can throw each image at a cloud AI colorization engine. This one is cheap enough that you'd pay ~10 bucks in per-image fees, then fractions of a penny per image in CPU time. I guess it'd be around $40.

Reassemble the images into a video with FFMpeg and then mix the audio back in—colorized version ready to go.

It might look funny though. Depends on how good the AI algorithm is.

sure thing bro.. i did contract work on shit like this at $50/hr for various wantrepreneurs and that was underselling myself quite a bit.

oh btw algorithmia ate your lunch a few years back.

I think if you translate it to modern terms, by design-contributions they mean header files. So header files contain a list of functions your part implements, call protocol, data structures, but no actual implementation.

The point they're making is that customers and software vendors should design these headers files for the specific project in order to make it all fit together. You cannot call function if it assumes one data format, but you have another.

Then when all necessary functions are described, a software vendor can create object files which implement this particular functions.

Then you get all the headers and object files together and link it into an executable. If you did everything correctly, it works. Software vendors do not need to disclose his source code, only object files.

Sounds cool, right? Well, yeah, it is cool. But we had this back in 1970. It is not a new way, it is the old way.

The only new thing is an emphasis on the collaboration on header files as opposed to "just use our libraries". However, it's not particularly unheard of, for example, two months ago I discussed API with a customer, and we adapted our stuff to make integration simple. So we're already using this "new way".

At least, conceptually. If you look at the text, it talks about executable binaries, addresses, bytes... It is like 5 generations older than what people use now.

A moder way of doing things is service-oriented architecture, SaaS, cloud, microservices. With SaaS, you can easily charge for usage without revealing the internals.

If you want to tie it to Bitcoin somehow, SaaS makes a lot of sense. You can create a peer-to-peer market for SaaS, where one company says "We need API which does this and this", another one offers it as SaaS and charges for each call.

And this thing already exists, sans Bitcoin, though. https://algorithmia.com/

We have created one where you might find some helpful algorithms https://algorithmia.com/signup?invite=algorithmify

Currently supports uploading CSV files our Data API or retrieve data through MYSQL. Adding more connectors everyday.