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Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?
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Re: Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?
#82I am doing my thesis (in the general area of video classification) as an electrical engineer in a Greek University and I am currently running some experiments that try to learn a video representation from local features (kernel codebook encoding) using an SVM variant and stochastic gradient descent. I could use a couple of c4.8xlarge instances to run the experiments trying out learning parameters. I am currently "com…
Your thesis sounds interesting. I'm working with a company doing some research in a potentially similar area. They might be able to spare some time on their cluster - drop me an email if interested and I'll see if I can set something up.
Re: Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?
#83Immediate idea is that scraping current complete product listing from amazon, ebay, alibaba and saving into database for public use. I am not sure one month is enough or those sites have anti-robots policy.
Another is crawling and indexing the internet to make another privacy-respected or specialized search engine(how to continue the effect one month later is an issue).
Re: Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?
#84I should like to learn to use AWS without risking being overcharged (a guy went from 200$ to 50000$ next month). You could make a web like try AWS anonymously without risk.
But that is a risky endeavor.
Re: Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?
#85Contact any computational chemist. They will use that overnight. Make sure to get documentation for a tax write off.
Re: Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?
#86If you are into baseball and advanced sabermetric stats, there's a bunch of c3.8XL and g2.8XL instances out there cranking through data to train various neural networks. The results can't be published to the public but I'd be happy to add you to the distribution list of results and future projections.
Hmm? First I've heard of it, and I work in professional baseball and have been active in the SABR community. Can you add me? mike.anon@hotmail.com
Unfortunately it's been caught up in the classic proprietary closed-source vs public source political debates... Pretty much zero chance anything we do gets added to the public domain.
Re: Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?
#87Step 1: I would use a chunk of it for Alexa web services and ranking very large lists of small business and non-profit org URL's from open data sets, and use it to identify sites whose traffic far exceeds their reasonably predicted popularity. Step 2: ____ Step 3: Profit
Re: Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?
#88op here: to clear up I can't really 'donate' or transfer 8k or any amount to your account. I will just give you ssh access to the machine(s) you need. The 8k will also be gone if we don't use them before end of august, so whatever it is you wanna build it needs to be written and executed before that date
Do you plan to follow up when you've made a decision?
op: i planned to, but up till now everyone is either telling me to donate the transfer to an ongoing project (ignoring the fact they only get to use it in August) or stuff people want 'to start' building or want me to start doing. Still no solid lucrative suggestions, do you have a favourite suggestion here ?
Re: Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?
#89Give it to Watsi, a non-profit that is making extensive use of AWS. It would probably equate to donating the entire sum to them.
Watsi sounds like an awesome organisation, but would they need such computing power within a month ? (the credit is only usable in August), if then can you connect me with them ?
Re: Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?
#90If someone wants you to do webscraping, even for a good cause, I wouldn't waste my time if I were you. Most AWS IPs have been long-since blacklisted by the most interesting sites (e.g. craigslist).
TOR ?