Crestle is using wrong github repo for fast ai by default

It looks like when you create a new crestle account the notebooks on it are pointing to https://github.com/fastai/courses repo which is the wrong repository. The repo that we need is https://github.com/fastai/fastai.

If you are using crestle you may want to press new terminal and run git clone https://github.com/fastai/fastai and when you reopen the jupyter notebook you should see a folder called fast ai.

I saw that there are 2 repositories under https://github.com/fastai/courses - fastai and fastai2. I then observed the expected course 2 repo directory structure under the fastai2 folder, including another courses directory, and under it dl1 etc.

Although I initially had difficulty getting it started, the lesson1-crestle notebook so far is working OK…

Yeah I think you are right under fastai2 folder is the correct lessons. Was a bit confused at first after going through the first bit of the notebook and realized it wasn’t any of the stuff we did in class.

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Getting Crestle Working - for Newbies

I’ve been following all the forum threads, and still it’s taken me a while to understand why Crestle wasn’t working and how to fix it. (Perhaps I am more of a newbie than I thought :upside_down_face: )

I wrote up Getting Crestle Working - for Newbies using everyone’s suggestions (thanks all!) and put the info in one place.

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Awesome @reshama - thanks so much for sharing!

Just to clarify one thing - if you set up your crestle account within the last week or so, you’ll already have a folder courses/fastai2, which is the correct repo for this course.

I hesitated to necro this thread, but for those curious as about Reshama’s notes, they are here:
https://github.com/reshamas/fastai_deeplearn_part1/blob/master/tools/crestle_run.md

Not that you should need them (hence the hesitation). Because now, a year later (Nov 2018), what you get on Crestle is correctly setup such that you do not have to do a git clone/clone (or so I think early into lesson 1).

One more tidbit on a related topic: as of this writing, if you are working on the ml1 class where the first lesson is deep forest/bulldozer competition, you should disregard Crestle’s plea to use Crestle.ai instead of .com. I believe the .ai site will be used for another revision of Jeremy’s class at some point in the near future.