To the author: I'm sorry that your post is flagged and now mostly hidden unless someone actively tries to read it. I'm actually curious about a few things. 1

To the author: I'm sorry that your post is flagged and now mostly hidden unless someone actively tries to read it. I'm actually curious about a few things. 1. How much total did you spend (and with which provider)? I'm curious because I've seen a lot of people do experiments like this, and I see that you gave an amount for how much you spent to get a correct answer, but I would also love to know how much it cost to do it all in the first place. I'm assuming that you had to re-run attempts, failed runs, etc. I think there's value in understanding the cost to get the results throughout development, not just the final result. In other words, I think that many people don't appreciate how much work/$$$ it takes to develop something like this... they only look at the final result. I want to better appreciate it myself. 2. How long does it take to run? You may have mentioned it in the writeup, but I don't recall. 3. What was your motivation? General curiosity, or are you working as part of a larger picture? 4. Are you intending to publish the results beyond what you've done here?