u/rather_pass_by

I have been building some thing for a while and one ideas after another, finally I have come up with a real novel algorithm for training model that works very well. As it should, because it's grounded in physics.. (if I explain you the ideas behind my model, you'd actually agree that it should work better). The kind of ideas that are obvious but hidden in plain sight or thought about it but just no one tried so far.

I have already filed a provisional patent application on it.. and now looking to publish it.

I have published in other ai domains but never in cvpr or the likes. And it's just my own work.. completely solo. Not a professor, nor have a PhD degree.

I'm now looking to get it published in a conference but I also feel like going all my own might be tough just because I'm not affiliated to any research labs or universities.. I know how to write papers.. what kind of results are expected and so on.. but I also know lot of editors just send out desk rejections to anyone without affiliations.. sad but true thing. Depends on scientific community and editors

What should I do? Target a second tier conference or even a workshop first? There is enough merit in the paper and deserves better in my perception.

It's unfortunate and sad people resort to anything to make money

They know there are a lot of founders and so to get funded they will do anything.. even pay.

So a lot of pseudo investors are nowadays charging 5-7 bucks to reply to your email, to give you feedback. To connect you to investors

Truth is these people are not investors, they are in real life struggling to pay their bill.

Even accelerators like YC only encourage more and more people to apply for the sake of increasing their denominator.. most founders don't know by applying to them, they only help them claim that they selected "top" 1% .. in reality, it's never top 1% .. it's just 1%.. from top of bottom, depends on the success. Chatgpt wrappers and yappers can never be top one per cent.

Regardless, even YC never charged anyone to pitch. Other accelerators are also trying hard to get more and more applicants but never charging anyone.

But now, there's a new brand of "angel investors" who will ask you to pay 5-7 bucks.. to reply to your pitch email.

If they had been charging like 500 bucks, I might have actually paid, but 5-7 bucks?? Literally?

Don't help them in paying their bills and mortgages. Never fall for this!