A bit of a hero in the bio-chemistry world. He was working at DOW chemical, and when he was assigned to a project that he wasn't interested in, he quit, and continued doing research and publishing from his house.
There is a lot of research to be done in the fields of computational linguistics and machine learning. Get yourself a coffee maker, and start hacking. You might eventually need to save up for some nice cuda gear, but there is no reason that you can't research from your garage.
Consider Alexander Shulgin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin#Life_and_care...
A bit of a hero in the bio-chemistry world. He was working at DOW chemical, and when he was assigned to a project that he wasn't interested in, he quit, and continued doing research and publishing from his house.
There is a lot of research to be done in the fields of computational linguistics and machine learning. Get yourself a coffee maker, and start hacking. You might eventually need to save up for some nice cuda gear, but there is no reason that you can't research from your garage.