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IMHO it's outrage-bait from an AI researcher who is likely oblivious to the costs of the computing infrastructure they use and thinks the overhead being charged
by KennyBlanken 4y ago
IMHO it's outrage-bait from an AI researcher who is likely oblivious to the costs of the computing infrastructure they use and thinks the overhead being charged on top of the grant award is outrageous because they don't have lab space and such.
Sadly, most researchers have zero appreciation for how much computing infrastructure costs, and how they think it's perfectly fine to store data for a several million dollar research grant, that involves multiple people's academic careers, on a USB hard drive they got at Best Buy because buying a proper server etc would cost too much.
You can see their attitude in how outraged they seem to be about having to pay a grad student $46k a year...
- azhenley 4y agoI only paid my students $26,000 a year (listed as $2200 a month in the post). I wish I could have paid them many more times that like they deserve!
- jltsiren 4y agoIf you are a CS researcher, the chances are the computing infrastructure you need is very cheap. If you only develop algorithms and software, your computing requirements are probably an order of magnitude smaller than for people who use the stuff you developed in their research. And even your data is often just something you downloaded from a public source, because you needed something with the right combinatorial and statistical properties.
- currymj 4y agothey don't pay the grad student $46k a year. they pay them $24k a year (or more likely $20k for 9 months), and then the university makes up a number for "tuition" and takes an extra $15k arbitrarily.