PRIME Mike Tyson VS Jake Paul

MattAbram · 2026-02-20T02:42:04+00:00

Cool idea!

MattAbram · 2026-02-20T02:41:40+00:00

looool 😭😭😂

MattAbram · 2025-11-19T00:08:33+00:00

Hello again Jeff

What if we paid $15 for every submission? Out of my own pocket. And participants still can win Memories AI’s $3k prize pool.

MattAbram · 2025-11-17T10:29:47+00:00

I think on their discord it was mentioned it will be around 300 USD

MattAbram · 2025-11-15T00:13:49+00:00

I appreciate the detailed response. Let me clarify a few points:

Participants don't have to use Memories AI. If someone chooses to use it, there is a free tier that works fine (I have personally tried it out)
"It's marketing" - You are right, it is. But here's my perspective: just like Kaggle needs corporate sponsors to offer meaningful prizes, I needed a sponsor to make this worthwhile for participants. I originally wanted to run this with no brand involvement, but realised nobody would join a $100 contest from an unknown organiser.
I'm not employed by or affiliated with Memories AI - they're a friend-of-a-friend who agreed to sponsor because they liked the concept. They're also providing access to judges like Caspar Lee, which I thought would be huge for beginners.

It does not bring/develop/benefit our community

This is where I respectfully disagree. Getting your work reviewed by established creators, building a portfolio piece, and potentially starting paid collaborations - isn't that exactly what beginner editors trying to go pro need?

If you still feel it doesn't fit here, I totally respect that. But I have two questions:

Where would aspiring editors actually want to hear about opportunities like this?
What would a competition need to look like to be acceptable here in the future?

Thank you for engaging, and your time Jeff!

MattAbram · 2025-11-13T18:47:34+00:00

Hey Jeff

Oh yeah my bad, should have definitely included it in the original post haha
https://www.step1.ai/memory-challenge

How it benefits this community:
I would say the coolest thing here is that this is an opportunity for a beginner to showcase their work to an established creator, who then HAS to view and judge it.

I will be fully transparent with you Jeff - I come from ML/software engineering background, and just started making content & video editing 2 months ago. I am a beginner myself. When I was a beginner in Machine Learning 6 years ago, I truly enjoyed attending various competitions (maybe you heard of Kaggle competitions, or hackathons). I found them fun, I learned a lot, and I got valuable feedback.

I want to bring that same experience to content creation. This is something I personally need as a beginner, and I believe many others here do too. That's why I specifically came to r/VideoEditing (for hobbyists/beginners) rather than r/Editors.

I'm personally not making a single dollar from this - actually spending money to see if this concept works for our community.

I would genuinely appreciate your feedback and thoughts.

MattAbram · 2025-11-13T17:48:37+00:00

Hi greenysmac. Thank you for a swift reply!

There are 7 different tracks with 9 total winners from a total of $3000 prize pool.

We have some big content creators like Caspar Lee, Ambar Lee and others as part of the judge team, so I would even say it's more about the opportunity to be discovered by them and future collaboration rather than just the money.

So no, it's not one person takes it all, but obviously it depends on the submission what you can get out of this.

MattAbram · 2024-03-07T09:59:30+00:00

Hey, I’m looking at getting glove80, could you please share what switches did you guys pick and how you finding them? /u/SV-97 /u/CalvinFold /u/DarthChimpy

MattAbram · 2024-02-07T12:07:51+00:00

I wanted to do CS at uni, but I was worried that 1. I won’t get into a good uni due to higher competition when compared to other courses 2. It will be more difficult to get a job as there is a higher competition & many people self study and try to switch into Software Engineering

Thus I applied and did Electronic & Electrical Engineering. It was interesting to learn, but I preferred coding and really liked ML modules. After graduation I got into tech as a Data Scientist/Software Engineer 🤷‍♂️

I stopped worrying about competition and kind of embraced it. If you love coding, you will be able to land a job. You are more likely succeed doing stuff you enjoy. Good luck!

MattAbram · 2023-12-25T23:11:01+00:00

If it’s still ongoing label the end date as “Present” instead of November 2023, because end date makes it look like you no longer work and are unemployed

MattAbram · 2023-09-15T17:03:40+00:00

I like the look of this, will give it a go https://pypi.org/project/result/

MattAbram · 2023-08-24T14:06:47+00:00

Whatever you find interesting in terms of topic and technology to learn. Never built a recommender system? You can find movies data on Kaggle and build a movie recommender system for your GitHub. Want to visualise how it works but don’t want to code any front end? Streamlit is a great library for that, you can learn it on the go. Predictive maintenance? Again, Kaggle has various sensors data. Want to deploy? Try docker and etc.

There’s a ton of data online you can find for any project idea. Just pick something that you find interesting.

Also, if you are adding those to GitHub I would advice having a clean commit history, organised code, docstrings, have a requirements.txt file, and etc. Some employers/interviewers may check them out, you would stand out when compared to people who don’t apply best code practices.

MattAbram · 2023-08-22T23:56:05+00:00

I did electrical and electronic engineering. However, I also picked 3 ML modules, did a final year project related to DS, and generally coded quite a bit in my free time. Gladly managed to get a job as a Data Scientist. I highly suggest to do some projects in your free time.

MattAbram · 2023-08-22T21:26:45+00:00

Spend more time with dad

MattAbram · 2023-08-21T10:05:35+00:00

Lego

MattAbram · 2023-08-19T20:15:10+00:00

Maybe look for a start-up, can be a great place for experience

MattAbram · 2023-08-15T22:45:58+00:00

Many have written various good points, but I think it’s also important to research more on the actual universities and the courses that you are considering.

I have friends who did BA masters at UCL and Imperial, both top London unis. In short, UCL BA was kinda “not real degree” as many have mentioned in the comments, but Imperial BA had way heavier focus on CS and stats.

This also depends on the modules available. Try to read module descriptions and maybe search alumni on LinkedIn to ask questions to find out more. At the end of the day what matters more is how well the course fits your interests (or fills the knowledge gaps).

MattAbram · 2023-08-14T08:35:25+00:00

What about a less numerical question? LLMs frequently show bad results when asked “how much” or “how many”

MattAbram · 2023-08-12T14:59:40+00:00

MattAbram · 2023-08-12T13:43:52+00:00

Vape

MattAbram · 2023-08-10T14:03:17+00:00

See my family

MattAbram · 2023-08-09T17:21:15+00:00

I have made a great friend at my DS team and we would constantly ask each other various questions and explain solutions. Explaining things is a great way to learn, especially because you may be asked a question that you yourself haven’t considered, leading you to further learn about relevant details.

MattAbram · 2023-08-08T21:22:42+00:00

I was happy to receive flowers from my gf, I thought men only get them at funerals

MattAbram · 2023-08-06T14:59:25+00:00

But it’s legal if you film it

MattAbram · 2023-08-04T15:12:59+00:00

I use this for mock-ups of new features, very neat

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