Interesting. To be honest I really appreciated how they started with Matlab; it gave a very math-centric focus to the fundamentals, although of course you can do all of that with Python too. And I say this as a professional developer.
”A lot”. There was some amount of numbers, on how many A100’s were used to train the SD1.5 and what was the training data size, discussed here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33727467
People in SD subreddit have been finetuning the SD-models, so depending what you want to do, it should be doable.
The parent comment had few valid points. As a fellow EU citizen, from Finland, I'm quite sadden how badly the Germans have handled the post-Ukrainian invasion, from energy perspective and from leadership point-of-view. The latter will have long lasting effect on the whole of EU.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fD6D4rjCPg