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> Everyone has to bring their own equipment and they receive exactly X kwh from a calibrated power supply to train their model What's the advantage of this ove
by rcthompson 10y ago
> Everyone has to bring their own equipment and they receive exactly X kwh from a calibrated power supply to train their model
What's the advantage of this over simply providing every team with identical hardware and equal computing time? It seems like providing a fixed power supply would favor whoever can afford to buy more efficient computing equipment.
- meric 10y agoMeasuring by power supply allows human participants if the limit is 20W.
- deegles 10y agoDeveloping special purpose machine learning hardware is part of the goal. I think of it like Formula 1, where the R&D eventually trickles down to consumer hardware. Also, there's no reason why you couldn't have different competition categories where you're limited to using X dollars worth of time on a specific cloud provider, for example.
- TwoBit 10y agoIdentical hardware limits you.