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Spending 10 months instead of 1 or 2 and not getting anywhere is also not free.
by general_ai 10y ago
Spending 10 months instead of 1 or 2 and not getting anywhere is also not free.
- kuschku 10y agoThe problem is that as a student I just can not, in any way, get the money for a 1080. The choice is spending 10 months, or not even starting.
- general_ai 10y agoSounds like someone is really good at coming up with excuses.
- grzm 10y agoPlease don't snipe at people. If you don't have something constructive and civil to say, please just don't comment.
- general_ai 10y agoI didn't snipe. This is life advice. Get a part time job. If you're in North America (Canada or US) and you can't squeeze out $400-600 from your budget over the period of a year, you're making excuses, pure and simple. Cook at home, drop cable subscription, don't go to Starbucks, do part time jobs, and so on and so forth. That's what students did back when I was one.
- kuschku 10y agoI’m in Germany, have a part time job, cook at home, have no cable subscription, don’t go to starbucks, buy food if possible at ALDI. Rent has been going up every year, but wages haven’t, so by now for me, rent for a small apartment is over 60% of my monthly income. The world has changed quite a bit since you were a student.
- general_ai 10y agoMy student years were in Moscow in early 90's amid chaos and hyperinflation. Even there, I would be able to scrape together a few hundred bucks for something that's critical to my academic success. Get a roommate, maybe? Find a better paying part time job? I'm having a hard time imagining someone who can program and who writes papers about machine learning not being able to find a decent paying part time job anywhere in the world.
- kuschku 10y ago> for something that's critical to my academic success Well, that’s the problem. It’s not. I can pass this and get the same grade no matter if I have good results or not. With CPU training, the paper just ends up ignored. If it was critical for my success, I’d definitely find a way to do it, but that’s the point, it’s not critical – it would just improve my results.
- general_ai 10y agoYou're confusing your grade with academic success. Those two things are related, but not the same. If this is something you want to pursue, go after it. Grades matter, but they're not the only thing that matters.
- kuschku 10y agoI’m still in undergrad/studying for B.Sc., so it’s not like I’m expected to do actual science, but you’re right indeed.
- gtani 10y agoThere was a thread recently, maybe on reddit, about a facebook group or somewhere people give away ec2 or azure credits to people who want to do HPC or deep learning or whatever. But i can't google it.
- kevinwang 10y ago
- kuschku 10y agoI just spent 3 months CPU-training a network for a paper I was writing, if I had any other options, you can be sure, I’d have used them.