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dijittoday at 2:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

Profitable for inference if you completely ignore training costs and that you absolutely must continuously train new models.


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vlovich123today at 2:24 PM

Which is where your analogy breaks down and why you think you’re taking crazy pills. Inference is growing and selling the oranges in your analogy. Model building is growing the farm to sell larger, juicier more addicting oranges.

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spzbtoday at 2:25 PM

And ignore capital costs, depreciation, user churn etc