The Politics of Digital Technology
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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You Know I'm Not Going to Be a Google Scholar or a Facebook Scholar
You're not going to stand up your own on-premises sort of compute not to do this like you know GPU or TPU intensive sort of training so you need access to that somehow and either you pay for that in a grant maybe you have trained a model and then your AWS credits like expire. So it's captured on the kind of like we can't materially do the research without getting access to these you know infrastructures. There are parallels here in network engineering as well when like the NSF network network network was privatized.
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