Hacker News with Generative AI: Cost Analysis

Exploring the Cost and Feasibility of Battery-Electric Ships (newscenter.lbl.gov)
Retrofitting a portion of the US shipping fleet from internal combustion engines to battery-electric systems could significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and be largely cost effective by 2035, according to a new study from Berkeley Lab researchers recently published in Nature Energy.
Environment, Shipping, Energy, Sustainability, Cost Analysis
29 points by gnabgib 13 hours ago | 60 comments
A Lunar Space Elevator Could Be Built for $2B [pdf] (hou.usra.edu)
Space Exploration, Engineering, Lunar Exploration, Cost Analysis
20 points by JumpCrisscross 10 days ago | 24 comments
How 15 Top LLMs perform on classification: accuracy vs. cost breakdown (airtrain.ai)
Historically, classification tasks used to be non-trivial endeavors, both in terms of human-power and cost. It would require a specialized model trained on a large labeled dataset; a consequential project involving tasks such as gathering the data, labeling the data, training and evaluating the model, monitoring and retraining, etc.
Generative AI, Machine Learning, Classification, Cost Analysis
13 points by idrisschebak 30 days ago | 0 comments
Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations (spliit.app)
I created Spliit a few years ago, but the version you can use today is only one year old. As a user suggested on GitHub, it’s a great opportunity to release some information about the project as a transparency exercise.
Open Source, Software Development, Cost Analysis, Community Funding
264 points by scastiel 34 days ago | 148 comments
Can solar costs keep shrinking? (tomaspueyo.com)
Solar Energy, Cost Analysis, Renewable Energy
401 points by GoRudy 84 days ago | 618 comments
Boeing's Starliner has cost at least twice as much as SpaceX's Crew Dragon (arstechnica.com)
Space Exploration, Aerospace, Business, Cost Analysis
8 points by mikece 112 days ago | 0 comments
Calculating the cost of a Google DeepMind paper (152334H.github.io)
Artificial Intelligence, Research, Cost Analysis, Google DeepMind
303 points by 152334H 114 days ago | 150 comments
Cost of developing new drugs may be lower than industry claims: trial (theguardian.com)
Pharmaceuticals, Drug Development, Research, Cost Analysis, Healthcare
275 points by swores 210 days ago | 282 comments