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Is a "multithousand dollar machine" supposed to be expensive? Any company with even half-decent resources should be able to put hundreds of thousands of dollars
by QuercusMax 7y ago
Is a "multithousand dollar machine" supposed to be expensive? Any company with even half-decent resources should be able to put hundreds of thousands of dollars of hardware toward training a model.
- bart_spoon 7y agoIt is when the competitions are aimed at the machine learning practitioning public, and not companies themselves. If having a machine with a bare minimum of $3000 of GPU power is the entry point for having a competitive model, then most of these competitions aren't actually a matter of coming up with a unique and clever model. It's simply throwing the biggest neural network you can at it. Which is fine, but it definitely flies in the face of the perception of Kaggle.