Lots of people think that grants aren't intended to fund tools, but are you sure that's the case? Particle accelerators are big tools, and the engineering is f

Lots of people think that grants aren't intended to fund tools, but are you sure that's the case? Particle accelerators are big tools, and the engineering is funded by grants. Ditto for telescopes. PyTorch allows thousands of labs to more efficiently do AI research, so should it have been fundable in some way?