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Re:Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mi... by general_ai on Monday January 30, 2017 @11:41AM (#13522640)
My student years were in Moscow in early 90's amid chaos and hyperinflation. Even there, I would be able to scrape together a few hundred bucks for something that's critical to my academic success. Get a roommate, maybe? Find a better paying part time job? I'm having a hard time imagining someone who can program and who writes papers about machine learning not being able to find a decent paying part time job anywhere in the world.
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Re:Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mi... by kuschku on Monday January 30, 2017 @01:26PM (#13523698)
> for something that's critical to my academic success

Well, that’s the problem. It’s not. I can pass this and get the same grade no matter if I have good results or not. With CPU training, the paper just ends up ignored.

If it was critical for my success, I’d definitely find a way to do it, but that’s the point, it’s not critical – it would just improve my results.

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Re:Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mi... by general_ai on Monday January 30, 2017 @03:23PM (#13524654)
You're confusing your grade with academic success. Those two things are related, but not the same. If this is something you want to pursue, go after it. Grades matter, but they're not the only thing that matters.
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Re:Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mi... by kuschku on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:28PM (#13527305)
I’m still in undergrad/studying for B.Sc., so it’s not like I’m expected to do actual science, but you’re right indeed.
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Re:Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mi... by gtani on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:30AM (#13528259)
There was a thread recently, maybe on reddit, about a facebook group or somewhere people give away ec2 or azure credits to people who want to do HPC or deep learning or whatever. But i can't google it.
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