Re: Wonder how cost effective this might be for cryptocurrency mining?What I meant was that there are already a few Google developments that took a different course from what was initially announced, such as Google Car and Google Fibre.
Re: Google’s machine learning It does seem only normal with Google's big investment in AI and machine learning that they would eventually offer this service. Noting that "preemptible GPUs will be a particularly good fit for large-scale machine learning," this move not only gives some publicity to Google but contributes to the bottom line for their cloud computing services as well.
Wonder how cost effective this might be for cryptocurrency mining?With the prices of cryptocurrencies going a bit crazy, I wonder how many folks will be "embezzling" some of their employer's down cycles with mining operations... :P
As for what ever happened to Google Car.. didn't it become Waymo? Or am I missing something in your question?
Google’s machine learning It all seems to indicate that the future is all about machine learning and learning machines. What ever happened with the Google car?
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