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Not disagreeing with you, but from what I've heard, the people who win kaggles are people who can try more things, having a faster card presumably would allow y
by edude03 6y ago
Not disagreeing with you, but from what I've heard, the people who win kaggles are people who can try more things, having a faster card presumably would allow you to try more things because each attempt would take less time.
- nl 6y agoThere is some truth in this, but it's not the entire picture. I've thought about it a lot, and talked to lots of really good Kagglers about it. Most of them use multiple machines, rather than having maximum performance in a single machine. This lets them run multiple completely different experiements at once, and then put extra compute onto the ones that seem good. That is a big difference to me, when I have to experiment sequentially. The parallelism is more important than absolute speed a lot of the time.