Chris Armstrong (rhodium103@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 10-Feb-2025 06:43:14 JST

Needless to say, this stuff is so fuck-nut expensive you're not going get one of these on your own in a routine small grant of a few tens of thousand dollars. No single research project will buy these.

But if they all contribute together, an "overhead" -- a "tax" of sorts -- then teams of researchers and whole institutions can buy them and share them.

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