(For reference I’m talking about the DFT post from the same blog.) I love that ML is still in the “gentleman researcher” stage where relatively small amounts of

(For reference I’m talking about the DFT post from the same blog.) I love that ML is still in the “gentleman researcher” stage where relatively small amounts of startup capital can buy a ticket into frontier research. For a lot of research questions 6 GPUs is even overkill. It’s one of the reasons I’m skeptical of the “trillion dollar supercluster” idea [0]. I think what we need is more reasonably smart people investigating medium-sized problems. A “GPU middle class” you might say. [0] https://situational-awareness.ai/racing-to-the-trillion-dollar-cluster/ https://situational-awareness.ai/racing-to-the-trillion-doll...