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by m-i-l·6y ago·view on hn ↗
> google provides computing resources for demo purposes for free, which can be exploited for non-intended use by clever automation

...and there are some issues with this free model (Colab notebook timeouts and TPUs sometimes being unavailable) which the author is "unfairly annoyed [with] since I’m getting something for free".

See also "AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab"[0] noting that the costs were not due to Colab itself but the bandwidth in copying the model from the GCP Storage Bucket to Colab.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21739879