Jul 16 2024, 08:11 AM, updated 2y ago
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Frustrations as a Universiti Malaya Computer Science student
TL;DR - if you're going to pursue your studies in Universiti Malaya, specifically in AI, **DONT.** There's little to no infrastructure here
As a Computer Science student from Universiti Malaya, the supposed number 1 university in Malaysia, we have a blockchain lab, and it's just rotting away here for no goddamn reason, and it even became a store for storing raya decorations and even chairs and tables. In this very same room, there's a bunch of GPUs (unused, and even RUSTING)
The Artificial Intelligence department, has **zero infrastructure** to assist them in their AI training, as well as exploring more about Generative AI applications, without forking out money for a GPU Cloud subscription! (which mind you, costs RM80/month, and resorting to using Kaggle GPUs is very much unsustainable because we're full-time degree students not doing the degree on the side)
This is just outrageous. The number one university in Malaysia, having this shit infrastructure, as well as having a dedicated Artificial Intelligence department for students to come here and do their degree, just for them to pay to even support their education journey. For all I know, most people come to University because of two reasons, number 1 is getting that degree paper for further use, and number 2 being that they don't have infrastructure at home to learn the stuff they need themselves
AI students come into the faculty thinking they have proper infrastructure to assist them in their academic AI-related pursuits, and yet boom they get hit with a goddamn wall with NO INFRASTRUCTURE, and when recommending to the higher ups of the university, they just shrug it off as "things take time".
So you're telling me this room, which has been here since 2018, no lecturers from the AI department ever thought "Hey, maybe we should have our own GPU clusters so that we can actually do research instead of having the blockchain lab, filled with a ton of GPUS, rot there"? Damn man
Anyways, that's just what I wanted to vent. Seeing that we're moving towards a more AI-centric future, seeing a goddamn university having little to no infrastructure to even support this is quite depressing, even more so being a student in this "prestigious" institution.
TL;DR - if you're going to pursue your studies in Universiti Malaya, specifically in AI, **DONT.** There's little to no infrastructure here
As a Computer Science student from Universiti Malaya, the supposed number 1 university in Malaysia, we have a blockchain lab, and it's just rotting away here for no goddamn reason, and it even became a store for storing raya decorations and even chairs and tables. In this very same room, there's a bunch of GPUs (unused, and even RUSTING)
The Artificial Intelligence department, has **zero infrastructure** to assist them in their AI training, as well as exploring more about Generative AI applications, without forking out money for a GPU Cloud subscription! (which mind you, costs RM80/month, and resorting to using Kaggle GPUs is very much unsustainable because we're full-time degree students not doing the degree on the side)
This is just outrageous. The number one university in Malaysia, having this shit infrastructure, as well as having a dedicated Artificial Intelligence department for students to come here and do their degree, just for them to pay to even support their education journey. For all I know, most people come to University because of two reasons, number 1 is getting that degree paper for further use, and number 2 being that they don't have infrastructure at home to learn the stuff they need themselves
AI students come into the faculty thinking they have proper infrastructure to assist them in their academic AI-related pursuits, and yet boom they get hit with a goddamn wall with NO INFRASTRUCTURE, and when recommending to the higher ups of the university, they just shrug it off as "things take time".
So you're telling me this room, which has been here since 2018, no lecturers from the AI department ever thought "Hey, maybe we should have our own GPU clusters so that we can actually do research instead of having the blockchain lab, filled with a ton of GPUS, rot there"? Damn man
Anyways, that's just what I wanted to vent. Seeing that we're moving towards a more AI-centric future, seeing a goddamn university having little to no infrastructure to even support this is quite depressing, even more so being a student in this "prestigious" institution.
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