I’m a big fan of open source AI research, but creating a new facility doesn’t seem like the way to go. If you’re making a GPU cluster that has to be shared among a bunch of different academic groups, you’ll have to build resource-sharing software, infrastructure tools, etc, and spend all this money on what is essentially an AWS clone.

Wouldn’t it be more effective to simply give this money to AI research groups and let them buy infrastructure from the most cost-effective provider? If AWS works best, fine, if it’s some smaller infrastructure provider, that’s fine too.

This proposal seems like it would actually divert money away from AI, by spending a lot of money rebuilding the standard cluster infrastructure stuff that cloud providers already have.

It really depends why you want a self help book. I have found books that help with people management, and books that help with the general problem of getting lots of emails and having to be organized while handling it all. But those were specific issues I had in my work. I wouldn’t recommend those to just anyone, it would be like reading a “how to fix your sink” book when your sink wasn’t broken.

My goal is to read Ficciónes in Spanish this year. Mostly this is an “improving my Spanish” goal rather than a “reading” goal but I figure it still counts.