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by dist-epoch 372 days ago
Hardware spend also need to be amortized (over 1 year? 2 years?) Unless you cloud rent.
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5 year amortization is pretty realistic I'd say. A100s (came out 2020Q1) are still in heavy use. (I think V100s from 2017Q3 are starting to be phased out a fair bit.)
That is true too