4 ms·

Find a PhD student that needs GPUs for their research but isn’t in a first world institution. You could reach out to a few top professors and ask for a referral

Find a PhD student that needs GPUs for their research but isn’t in a first world institution. You could reach out to a few top professors and ask for a referral to someone promising. Ie be a science benefactor

ghoshbishakh 3y ago
wow this is some real advice. I fully agree!
jacurtis 3y ago
As a PhD candidate myself, I have to say this is an amazing idea. Meet with your local university's CompSci department and they will have many good uses for them. I don't need them, I have actually accrued a large collection of credits myself for the program. But another university may not be as fortunate, so this can be a huge help and be the difference in many research projects being completed or not. Overall, research benefits everybody, so this is a better use of the credits than using it to middle-finger Bezos that many comments are suggesting. Especially because credits are more beneficial and needed than ever before right now. I can tell you from being in academia that they are pushing almost all research projects to find AI/ML angles on everything we do. Thats the type of research in demand right now by the major journals and publications so all the universities are pushing for this twist on all current research projects to improve the likelihood of being published. And as you know, doing anything with AI/ML can 10x - 100x the cost. So credits are more valued right now than ever before.
whitepoplar 3y ago
Good idea, but make sure they don't accidentally blow past $10k, leaving you with a monster bill. People can be a little reckless with "free money".
- manderson89 3y ago
  This. AWS Budgets to get notifications when they reach certain spend thresholds will be a must. Also you should probably setup an AWS organization and have them operate in a sub-account if you go this route.
throwawayadvsec 3y ago
it's damn near impossible to get approved for enough GPU to do any serious research with random free credits it won't help much :/
- james-revisoai 3y ago
  absolutely, unfortunately you are right.

ghoshbishakh 3y ago

wow this is some real advice. I fully agree!

jacurtis 3y ago

As a PhD candidate myself, I have to say this is an amazing idea. Meet with your local university's CompSci department and they will have many good uses for them. I don't need them, I have actually accrued a large collection of credits myself for the program. But another university may not be as fortunate, so this can be a huge help and be the difference in many research projects being completed or not. Overall, research benefits everybody, so this is a better use of the credits than using it to middle-finger Bezos that many comments are suggesting. Especially because credits are more beneficial and needed than ever before right now. I can tell you from being in academia that they are pushing almost all research projects to find AI/ML angles on everything we do. Thats the type of research in demand right now by the major journals and publications so all the universities are pushing for this twist on all current research projects to improve the likelihood of being published. And as you know, doing anything with AI/ML can 10x - 100x the cost. So credits are more valued right now than ever before.

whitepoplar 3y ago

Good idea, but make sure they don't accidentally blow past $10k, leaving you with a monster bill. People can be a little reckless with "free money".

manderson89 3y ago
This. AWS Budgets to get notifications when they reach certain spend thresholds will be a must. Also you should probably setup an AWS organization and have them operate in a sub-account if you go this route.

throwawayadvsec 3y ago

it's damn near impossible to get approved for enough GPU to do any serious research with random free credits it won't help much :/

james-revisoai 3y ago
absolutely, unfortunately you are right.