What's a reasonable desktop configuration to work on these topics at home for < $2000. I guess RAM and SSD would be as much as I can afford. How about processor & graphics? I think I want to experiment with Apache Spark, Hadoop, Scipy, R.
I don't want to buy laptop. The motherboard gave up on current Sager within 2 yrs. Also, I had trouble with optimus + linux in the past, so want to avoid optimus stuff.
Ask HN: Hardware for data science and machine learning
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Re: Ask HN: Hardware for data science and machine learning
#2I think it will be much cheaper to rent an instance on AWS or Digital Ocean , on an hourly basis, with Hadoop and Apache Spark already deployed.
That way you can play around with much larger datasets.