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by nl 7 days ago
All model training is in R&D

> How much of that R&D chunk can actually be reduced for the company to continue working.

Worth noting that almost all engineering (including software engineering) is always included in R&D.

Development is important! Most software (and indeed engineering!) companies couldn't continue if they stopped R&D.

Ford couldn't continue as a company without R&D.

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> All model training is in R&D

Yes. But is all R&D model training? That was the actual question.

Everybody that is presuming "inference is profitable" here is just naively deducting "cost of revenue" from "revenue" and running with that.