Hi, I’ve decided to use Crestle for the first “homework” (aka setting up an environment and getting the cats vs dogs identifier working). I had a few questions on doing it, though.
Even though Crestle comes loaded with the github repo, I was wondering how to create/edit files in the directory. Do you use the terminal and mkdir to do so?
What files/folders are needed to run the program? I know that you need some training data for it, but what files/folders are needed and where in the repo are they? Also, where’s the jupyter notebook file for the first lesson? I’ve found several folders that contain some sort of “lesson 1”.
Is anything else needed to create and run the program besides what I’ve asked for above?
You shouldn’t need to edit any files, other than running the Jupyter notebook as shown by @beecoder . But if you do, you can click any file in the Jupyter notebook file list to edit it.
Thanks professor! I’m hoping to copy the data files to a new directory and either copy or retype the code in a new jupyter file to help me understand the major components of the program.
The most elaborate model that I used for this competition was a 10-fold CV 269-layer deep ResNet. It took about 15 hours to train each fold on my machine, so that translates into about 6 days training.
Looking back, what would you do differently now?
I would try harder and start earlier to look into training really deep neural networks from scratch. I’ve been able to train a ResNet 50 from scratch, and it outperformed the fine tuned pertained model.
