I work on deep learning methods to analyze electronic medical records. Institution I work for (high ranking university in the US) has some outdated GPUs I can use to crunch some numbers, but I cannot use really use them to experiment to learn new things or use them for my own projects. $50-100 credit would help me a lot to rent a GPU instance for many hours and learn a few new tricks. I could start with applying Convolutional Neural Nets to play with this: https://www.kaggle.com/c/grasp-and-lift-eeg-detection .
Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You may not sell, license, rent He's giving it away, no money changing hands. > or otherwise transfer Promotional credit Is what he has "promotional" credit? He says he has credit... is there a difference? If there is, then that quote doesn't apply. If they are the same thing, and it's used on his account? If there is no "sale" or "transfer", then yes... it is clear: He's fine to use it as he wishes.
Yes, if he bought $8,000 in AWS credits then he can use it as he wants, but I doubt this kind soul is trying to just throw out $8k. This is very very likely promotional credit. They hand it out like candy. Edit: Okay, I can see that if his approach is to use it on his own account, but for someone else's purposes, then it's probably fine. I don't think they even have any system to transfer AWS credits Edit2: Then agai…
Be careful the AWS police will get you.
Re: Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?
#74Donate them to a cracking team at DefCon
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You may not sell, license, rent, or otherwise transfer Promotional Credit. Promotional Credit may be applied only to your AWS account, and may not be applied to any other account. Seems pretty clear to me...
If he does the computations and simply gives the results as a donation is that transferring?
I would argue no - what would be the difference between him spinning up VMs and handing off the credentials and hosting a public web service on it? The VMs are still his responsibility - he is just allowing other people to use them.
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#76I'd use it to make progress on some unsolved conjecture in graph theory (for science!). I don't have a specific one in mind right this second, but there are certainly a few where massive computer searches can help.
Re: Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?
#77I'm pretty sure what you're trying to do is not allowed under Section 1.3 of the AWS Promo Credit agreement. Personally, I would be wary accepting "free" credit that I may end up being on the hook for. https://aws.amazon.com/awscredits/
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You may not sell, license, rent He's giving it away, no money changing hands. > or otherwise transfer Promotional credit Is what he has "promotional" credit? He says he has credit... is there a difference? If there is, then that quote doesn't apply. If they are the same thing, and it's used on his account? If there is no "sale" or "transfer", then yes... it is clear: He's fine to use it as he wishes.
Yes, if he bought $8,000 in AWS credits then he can use it as he wants, but I doubt this kind soul is trying to just throw out $8k. This is very very likely promotional credit. They hand it out like candy. Edit: Okay, I can see that if his approach is to use it on his own account, but for someone else's purposes, then it's probably fine. I don't think they even have any system to transfer AWS credits Edit2: Then agai…
-yup its a promotional credit (started at 10k), i didnt really buy it
-nope I can't transfer it
-yes my approach was simply to give the person/people access to my account
-Its my fucking server and I can run whatever script I see fit .. but ok realistically maybe its not the best idea to give it to a commercial startup/project that has a legal entity to be sued. but I don't think its really that big of a deal to run some crawlers
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#79op 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
Re: Ask HN: $8k on AWS in August for you, any interesting computations?
#80op 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
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