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For undergrad students trying to dabble in reinforcement learning, several hundreds of dollars can be quite a lot.
by cyber_kinetist 5y ago
For undergrad students trying to dabble in reinforcement learning, several hundreds of dollars can be quite a lot.
- ladberg 5y agoI got MuJoCo for free as an undergrad and I'm pretty sure all I needed was a .edu email address.
- xwolfi 5y agoBut they can accept that the world is not geared towards amateur dabblers, and that a few hundreds of $ for a license (a license, meaning to legalize production usage, you can always copy from somewhere to "dabble") is nothing.
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- ResearchCode 5y agoThe CS world has certainly been geared towards the hobbyist budget for some time now. Would be good to keep it that way, even if it meant sacrificing a supposed 1% extra accuracy in the latest "top conference" (sure if their sponsors are the companies publishing huge models it won't happen even if it should).
- Syntonicles 5y agoWell now they don't have to, because it really is nothing.
- dekhn 5y agoas an undergrad in the 90s I invested thousands of dollars of my own money to work on machine learning. Worth every penny, even if I had to miss out on some cool parties.
- regularfry 5y agoWonderful that you had thousands of dollars as an undergrad to be able to do so.
- dekhn 5y agoWorked a job to pay for ram. It atypical.
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoWorking in undergrad isn't a common thing?
- cdcarter 5y agoWell, if you're working to pay your rent, bills, and food expenses, and you're only working part time (because you're a full time undergraduate student), you may not have a lot left over to pay for software licenses.
- dekhn 5y agowhich is precisely the reason I went with linux: so I could maximize my hardware resources while eliminating license costs. By not buying whatever MS compiler in those days, I was able to max out my workstation with 32MB RAM.
- regularfry 5y agoWorking in undergrad and having thousands left over after paying for food and a place to sleep certainly can't be assumed to be. That's where my pay went.
- dekhn 5y agoI was very fortunate to not have to pay tuition or board, but if I had to, I wouldn't have spent my money to pay for that (I would have taken out loans) and still spent my money on RAM.