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> Right now training speed is the bottle-neck, and even though my Nvidia GPU is fast it is not nearly as fast as I would like it to be. It takes a few days to generate a new net from scratch but I simply don’t think it is responsible to splurge on a 4 GPU machine in order to make this project go faster.

You should stick up a donate button, if you keep writing interesting articles about how it all works, I'd happily throw a few dollars towards the process.

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Looks like he sold one of his domains, ww.com, for 3 million; guessing he probably doesn't need donations :) https://jacquesmattheij.com/domains-for-sale/

Wow, looks like he is really 'hoarding' a lot of domains.

I'd be interested to know what the HN sentiment is for this kind of behaviour; his only claim to these domains is that he got there first - he obviously has no intention of using them beyond selling to the highest bidder.

I think it's shitty behaviour - but what's the alternative? I've found good fresh domains in the past, and let them drop when the project I registered them for (inevitably) doesn't go anywhere, only to see them grabbed by domain squatter.

Recently I listed an unneeded but above average (trademarkable, keyword, .com) on HN as free to anyone who could use it, with the stipulation that they pass it on if subsequently not used.

I'd be glad to see more of that.

Ha wow, I'd have a mini cluster of GPUs powering it!

For those who don't know, ww.com was the first multi-webcam site on the net. Jacques has shared some stories over the years of hacking that (technically and the nascent business modelling) together - very much in the spirit of this Lego, and his other, projects.

That was the asking price, it fetched a lot less than that (about $1M). Then there were taxes and some debt to get rid of but in the end it was a good deal.

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