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Zachary Nado#707
Palash@ABiggerSpalash
Geoff Hinton, before he was Geoff Hinton, once asked NVIDIA for a free GPU for his students Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever. Nvidia declined
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Resurfaced anecdote reveals NVIDIA once declined Geoff Hinton's request for a free GPU for students Ilya Sutskever and Alex Krizhevsky
The request followed an independent workshop rejected by NeurIPS
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Mikhail Parakhin@MParakhin
I remember, I was there :-) Fun fact, it wasn’t NeurIPS, it was a room they rented in the same hotel, organizing an unrelated “workshop”, because NeurIPS wouldn’t accept them - Neural Networks weren’t cool. The room was packed, though.
Palash@ABiggerSpalash
Geoff Hinton, before he was Geoff Hinton, once asked NVIDIA for a free GPU for his students Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever. Nvidia declined
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