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Re:Expect Deeper and Cheaper Machine Learning by visarga on Sunday January 01, 2017 @04:50AM (#13295266)
> I look forward to learned models as a service.

My current disappointment with machine learning as a service is pricing. For example, the same job that could be solved by a cheap $5/month instance with open source software, would cost $45/day if it were implemented in Google's Cloud Prediction API. My task was to classify news and I had a volume of about 100K examples to classify per day.

Why would cloud API cost hundreds of times more?

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Re:Expect Deeper and Cheaper Machine Learning by dekhn on Sunday January 01, 2017 @10:27AM (#13296024)
That $45/day vs. $5/month comparison ignores the set up and maintenance costs of your personal instance. You would also have to train models, keep them up to date, etc. If you are happy trading your dev time that way, fine, but the value proposition of APIs are clear.
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