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Why is the age limit 18?
by sdan 8y ago
Why is the age limit 18?
- pauljurczak 8y agoBecause ultimately you will have to pay for AWS and they don't want a kid to charge her parent's credit card.
- sdan 8y agoI'm more of a GCP fan since they provide so much in GCP credits. Unless you're doing hundreds of hours of compute, I don't think that getting a relatively high AWS bill to your card will be a problem.
- taneq 8y agoFor some reason most robotics contests seem to be restricted to highschool students. It's bizarre. It's like "Hey kids get into STEM because robots are cool! OK now stop and go build accounting software." Edit: Thinking more about it, it's even worse. "Hey kids, robotics is a toy for kids to play with."
- chucksmash 8y agoI think a big part of it is because as an adult with the time, inclination, some money, and programming skills you're expected to just go off and build things. I guess the same holds true for other adult things like paint-and-sips (you drink and paint a picture) though, so maybe you've come across an untapped market for bot-and-booze.
- taneq 8y ago> maybe you've come across an untapped market for bot-and-booze. I am so down for this. Maybe I should organize something.
- sdan 8y agoYeah, generally that's true. I think I may be a different case (https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08233 https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08233).
- applecrazy 8y agoNice to see another high school student here! Just wanted to compliment you on your self-driving car design. Also skimmed your blog and paper. My intended area of focus is generative modeling but I thought your project was awesome nonetheless.