Platform: Salamander ✅

@ramon would you mind removing the error from your post as a courtesy to others scrolling down?

It’s more likely related to Jupyter than Salamander. If you encounter this issue again try restarting your kernel, or if you have other notebooks open try going to the “Kernels” tab & shut all the other kernels down to free up your memory (& restart the notebook you’re working on). Stopping & starting your server again is the nuclear option - you shouldn’t need to do that.

I’ve edited it to use a details section like so:

[details=error message]
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@ashtonsix I was really pleased to get an email from you yesterday saying my server was idling. Great feature! You should advertise that.

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@ashtonsix Also a question: Jeremy mentioned on Mon. that you would be accepting the AWS credit in a couple of days. Is that possible yet?

Hey, as you can see even fastai-0.7 in Jupyter notebooks it is not able to import fastai. I have simply copied the imports of the old fastai lesson. fastai v1 is working fine. Can you pls fix this?

I have found a temp fix. I installed fastai-0.7 following Howto: installation on Windows . It seems to be working fine but the kernel is python.

When I try to train the model with this installation I get “RuntimeError: cuda runtime error (59) : device-side assert triggered at /pytorch/torch/lib/THC/generic/THCTensorCopy.c:20”

@bluesky314 please use this forum category for fastai v1 and course v3. To discuss previous versions, please use the appropriate category (e.g. #part1-v2 ).

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@ricknta I’m adding the aws credit stuff later today: it was harder to build than expected (not possible through API, you have to programmatically control a web browser).

@bluesky314 will investigate (worked for others), let’s continue conv elsewhere.

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everyone, but @ricknta in particular:

You can now redeem AWS credits on Salamander: https://salamander.ai/redeem-aws-coupon

This feature isn’t 100% stable, but I’ve run out of my own coupons to test it with & keep building. There’s no AWS API for coupons, Salamander is controlling a web browser for this.

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For folks that try this, please let us know here if it worked or not. Once we’ve got enough reports of success, we can update the wiki post to let folks know it’s stable.

@jeremy

a quick clarification requested

Is the $50 google credit & $250 AWS credit available for ‘remote’ students also? Or is it only for in-person students?

Thanks a lot

@sujithvn I think the $250 AWS credit is just for usf students. However, if you’re a student anywhere else there’s $110 credits available via a partnership with github. With AWS on-demand that’s 122 K80 hours; 223 hours on Salamander.

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@ashtonsix

Thanks for the clarification. I could have missed those details earlier :slight_smile:

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@ashtonsix
How can we upload data from local device to Salamander?

@Bibek setup your access key on Salamander & find an application suitable for your OS. I personally use the “Connect to server” functionality inside Nautilus (Ubuntu). For Windows WinSCP might work. You’ll probably find a better solution by searching on the internet than asking me (I’m not the best person to ask for general computer help).

@ashtonsix @Bibek easier is to simply click “Upload” on the main jupyter notebook page.

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How do I install chromedriver on Salamander? I’m trying to use duckgoose (https://github.com/svenski/duckgoose) to get Google images.

I can’t seem to create a python3 or any other notebook other than fastai… if I try to change kernel, it switches back to fastai.

I’ve been trying for an hour or two, at random times - I can’t get the web form up - always say someone else is using it…