Deep Learning on Apple Silicon

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I was just able to train the whole model from lesson 1 on my MBP with M1 Max 24 GPU Cores. Has anyone else been able to do this with conda?

Fastai on Apple M1

I’ve setup a condo environment on my MacBook Pro with 24 Core M1 Max. I’m able to run the first notebook from the book without any issues. The only change I’ve made is this: import os os.environ["OMP_NUM_THREADS"] = "1" When creating a the conda environment, use conda install -c fastchan fastai fastbook jupyterlab sentencepiece. sentencepiece is an important dependency, but condo doesn’t install it by default for some reason. if you don’t install it, you’ll end up getting some weird dependen…