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TLDR; google provides computing resources for demo purposes for free, which can be exploited for non-intended use by clever automation
by draugadrotten 7y ago
TLDR; google provides computing resources for demo purposes for free, which can be exploited for non-intended use by clever automation
- skinkestek 7y agoIncluding some interesting reflections around both the author as well as Google.
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- m-i-l 7y ago> google provides computing resources for demo purposes for free, which can be exploited for non-intended use by clever automation ...and there are some issues with this free model (Colab notebook timeouts and TPUs sometimes being unavailable) which the author is "unfairly annoyed [with] since I’m getting something for free". See also "AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab"[0] noting that the costs were not due to Colab itself but the bandwidth in copying the model from the GCP Storage Bucket to Colab. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21739879 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21739879