from Patrick McKenzie | by Patrick McKenzie

A fun thing I ran into when exploring Stable Diffusion is that there is a company specializing in various form factors for delivering compute to people doing AI/ML/etc research. t.co/11Hutrw6q0 One of many, many offerings: t.co/KGiu9VHOvV

Me prior to today: never going to own any hardware again, other than the laptop necessary to touch the cloud. Me today: ... That has to be tax deductible, right. You can certainly make that case to the IRS and NTA. Look it runs Ubuntu; you can amateur sysadmin Ubuntu.

The subtext of this is that I probably should do many things prior to splurging on a really expensive workstation that I am presently unable to use effectively, but that the notion of that sort of splurge does push a lot of buttons that have long laid dormant.