Vast.ai Reviews

Amazon Mechanical Turk Reviews

1. Maria Miller

   over 4 years ago
   Renown System

   Hire dedicated virtual assistants to grow your business.

Vast.ai mentions (223)

• Nvidia pursues $30B custom chip opportunity with new unit

  There are already ways to get around this. For example, renting compute from people who aren't in datacenters. Which is already a thing: https://vast.ai. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• A SETI-like project to train LLM on libgen, scihub and the likes?

  By "SETI" I assume you mean the SETI@Home distributed computing project. There's a two-way market where you can rent out your GPU here: https://vast.ai/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Ask HN: What's the best hardware to run small/medium models locally?

  - https://vast.ai/ (linked by gchadwick above). - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Ask HN: What's the best hardware to run small/medium models locally?

  Have you considered running on a cloud machine instead? You can rent machines on https://vast.ai/ for under $1 an hour that should work for small/medium models (I've mostly been playing with stable diffusion so I don't know what you'd need for an LLM off hand). Good GPUs and Apple hardware is pricey. Get a bit of automation setup with some cloud storage (e.g backblaze B2) and you can have a machine ready to run... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Budget-friendly Cloud server to host OpenAI Whisper?

  I have heard vast.ai is cheap but I haven't tried it out. https://websiteinvesting.com/reviews/vast-ai-review/. Source: 7 months ago

Amazon Mechanical Turk mentions (15)

• A Few Ways to Make Extra Cash for Christmas

  mTurk- Fueled by Amazon. People tend to make $100-400 per month doing short tasks. This is a bonus pick. Source: 8 months ago

• Instead of Complaining Here Go Apply

  The price of connects is high, but it's doable. If you're really hurting, try a site like mturk.com or qmee.com. They give quick payouts for small tasks. Source: about 1 year ago

• I want to runaway from home

  For money you could get small amount doing audio transcription or small data service jobs. I do not know how controlling your family members are, but you could start by working on small online data jobs for Amazon.com. They have a multitude of industries that are worked in, especially in data services. If you sign up for employment through mturk.com you can try doing small data jobs like transcribing business... Source: over 1 year ago

• I need tasks performed but they are all on the web. What are the best services for this? AskSunday used to be good. Any advice?

  Upwork, fivver. If it is a long term task that you can split into microtasks, then mturk.com. Source: about 2 years ago

• Make your first $1 online

  1. Go to any of these websites - Https://microworkers.com Https://picoworkers.com Https://rapidworkers.com Https://mturk.com. Source: about 2 years ago