Reminds me of Feynman's 'There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom'. He discusses miniaturizing ICE engines in page 5 - bottom left paragraph.

https://calteches.library.caltech.edu/1976/1/1960Bottom.pdf (8 pages, PDF)

Off peak for China or US

Off peak for China. Off peak times are only in one timezone

It's been a while since I've used it but Google cloud shell is a good free platform for learning Linux commands as well

https://shell.cloud.google.com

MiniMax token plan

https://platform.minimax.io/docs/guides/pricing-token-plan

How is the speed and stability?

These small Chinese companies dont always have access to serious hardware.

I’ve never had any problems with MiniMax. I wouldn’t call the speed fast exactly, but it’s faster than GLM and seems similar to Opus.

It’s been fast enough that I’ve been using it as my main model (M2.7 and before that, M2.5). Opus still does better at tasks, but MiniMax is so much cheaper. I’ve used their cheaper plan and I’ve never been rate limited.

OP is probably talking about shared vCPUs, not dedicated

For those, wouldn't hyperthreading be a win? Some fraction of the time, you'd get evicted to the hyperthread that shares your L1 cache (and the hypervisor could strongly favor that).

Two years after the imposition of a student cell phone ban, student test scores in a large urban school district were significantly higher than before, David N. Figlio and Umut Özek find in The Impact of Cell Phone Bans in Schools on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Florida (NBER Working Paper 34388).

Paper: https://www.nber.org/papers/w34388

Possibly if the case is being used as a heat sink, but in that case it would be unsafe to touch. I think it's just being used instead of a traditional mesh panel.

I'm pretty sure they just want to be coherent with the which has that "steel scrubber finish" on the hardware

(photo for reference: https://www.wwt.com/api-new/attachments/5f033e355091b0008017...)

YaCy (https://yacy.net) can do all this I think. Cloudflare might block you IP pretty soon though if you try to crawl.

You might be able to reach the intended audience at lesswrong forum. Can also ask Zvi (https://thezvi.substack.com/), astralcodexten, Marginal Revolution to publicize this.

Yes, please reach out and repost.

I didn't get the feeling that lesswrong is the right place for such a post. Is it? What tag should I use? Anything else I should know when posting there for these this kind of content?

Lesswrong is a AI Safety related forum. There have been previous funding posts on lesswrong. Can check them out.

https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/grants-and-fundraising-opportu...

Also, it would be better if you reach out to the other blogs since they might have some doubts regarding this program of yours.