shipwright

Good thinking, and regarding Euro institutions there's lot of regional differences- for instance, brits have steps to take which are pretty set in stone with the Centres for Doctoral Training; basically it's the opposite of the process from the prior comment, it's the system that allocates someone for you. Denmark is free if you're native or from EU- Finland however is free for all (according to peers and the net) and would gauge they're both tad more flexible than UK in terms of requirements. Anyway, there's plenty options! Regarding the selection process, although they're a clear benefit perfect grades aren't a must and it's alright to be from outside of a top ranking school- but you'll have to bring something to the table to make up for it. Whether that is a solid paper, practical achievements along recommendations or whatever again depends on the place. I think there's just so many ways to show something that can be impressive without knowledge about the latest thing or dropping walls of equations for the sake of it haha. Best of luck!

That's not necessarily a deterrent :) it really depends where, also would you consider staying in the states for it? Because I know of some reputable places (west coast mostly) where pretty much if you are to the right person's liking and fit their requirements, your admission won't see objections- there's plenty of time to make a decision about it, because the applications (iirc) take place a bit before* the end of the year. Let me know if you need more details!

I know someone who is on the second platform, they're labeled B2B professionals and can be filtered to your liking- the rate is between 70 and 160 $/hr which does fall within the initially mentioned budget it seems :)

Great to hear! And if memory serves correct, long time no see (Belgium like 11 years ago? haha) :) the Greek Mozilla squad was tons of fun to hang out with, super interesting discussions that day- project I mentioned briefly back then got awarded by NASA one year later, wish what I did was half as impactful than what you guys got going on at Libre Space though! Hope all is well

You're likely eligible for Nvidia Inception which does offer a handsome amount of free credits for several providers, AWS included.

That's rad, lack of lock-in and sharing in a niche is a big green flag- Hope adding ultrasound to the list of modalities goes as planned, would gladly lend a hand at no cost if it's high on the priority list!

Such a hidden gem, gotta love the sketches and the layout overall is pacing the entire article so damn good!

We have a machine running Win7 that's just about that age at home, mostly for the sake of keeping old passion projects that rely on heap behavior being deterministic like some forensics plugins and a half baked try at application checkpointing for Windows- despite that meaning a wider attack surface for Win7 (like LFH buffer overflows or use-after-frees), there aren't that many major threats to be wary of especially if an eye is kept at ProcMon then and now, plus maybe a network packet analysis tool of choice with some rules on (anecdotally, said workstation still sees reckless unprotected use from relatives and it's just fine haha). XP on the other hand needs more precaution and it might be better off kept offline or replaced with a lightweight Linux distro like Lubuntu :)

Getting to know some cuda is a solid step forward, I'd recommend familiarizing with Triton as a next move since you seem into that, besides fundamentals like trying out a scalable deployment workflow with a framework>training env>inference env>orchestration tooling of choice. Plenty of room to mix and match there (and can be done at no cost in many cases due to generous free trials/tiers) :). Simply finding something you love goes a long way, there's always going to be opportunities to prove your worth especially when it comes to infra: here's a little example, there's a lot of popular streamlined training tools which save checkpoints where tensors are nested oddly in subkeys- because of it deserialization gets iffy when converting to safetensors. That wouldn't be a hassle if it were a one off thing, but said models are really big and popular without even counting the sheer number of finetunes that also get deployed and when aware of it can just act accordingly but it's what stopped enough projects in their tracks for a while until pointed out haha. I'm sure that whatever you pick to do will be a good choice, best of luck :)