* Remove support they are ideologically opposed to irregardless of merit. USAID is the most obvious example where many of the things it does/did are opposed to the political and religious beliefs of those involved in scrapping it.
* With the 'America First' agenda it reduces the scope of what 'national interest' is in terms of foreign policy so they want to force regional partners to take more of role. This is clearest at the moment in Europe but they'll be doing the same to everyone else (e.g. Korea with China/North Korea).
Broadly the administration is continuing along the Project 2025 path. So the end goal is a more distant America waiving nukes at China.
They're going on vibes - a general feeling of "I'm not paying for that!" International aid is in the expenses category, and it's not a payment to me, so it must be cancelled! It helps that Putin makes big "donations".
Never mind that just a few years ago we were talking about how China's belt and road initiative would help it take over the road and now we are cancelling the American belt and road initiative.
Never mind that America is only rich because of its worldwide influence.
a handful of oligarchs get unfettered control to the US in exchange for a withdrawal from international agreements. simple overlap with some libertarian ideology.
heavily funded by Russia, and to a lesser extent China.
I’ve experimented with both. Neither really values where you come from and what you’ve accomplished. What they care about is what you’re going to do for them.
In my case, I just happen to care about what they’ll do back because I’m not interested in super imbalanced relationships.
If you don't pick your lab/PI wisely you might end up stroking you PI's ego without accomplishing anything of value. Or you might end doing four years of work that ends up obsolete before you even graduate.
Huh? Their position in the market is much better than that of OpenAI and Co. Selling hardware and services is sure business. Training models is by contrast a risky business, and even if you attain SOTA, you cannot relax because your competitors will be on your tail. From a purely pragmatic perspective they also do not have the manpower to compete seriously in that space.
It costs the equivalent of 2 years of cloud GPU H100s at current prices.
Edit: Sorry fucked up my math. I wanted to do 40x52x4, $4/hr being the cloud compute price but that us actually $8300, so it is actually equivalent to about 4.5 months of cloud compute. 40 hours because I presume that this will only be used for prototyping and debugging, i.e during office hours.
