Setup Course-V3 on a new mac book pro

Part 1 (2019)
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Hello everyone, I got a new computer and I am trying to set up fastai on my local machine, so that I don’t have to be on Crestle each time I am exploring the datasets or looking at various functions.

The instructions all seem outdated (6 months ago or earlier). Are there any new instructions on how to install the fastai library and how to set up my machine to be able to open and explore the Course-v3 notebooks locally first before I run them on Crestle?

In particular, I was looking at these instructions - Fastai v0.7 install issues thread . Are they still valid?

Thanks in advance for your help!
Sri

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Answering my own question here, ha.

I have Anaconda, Python 3.7 and therefore Jupyter Notebook already installed. Now, I opened a new Terminal window and typed this:
conda install -c pytorch -c fastai fastai
mkdir fastai
git clone https://github.com/fastai/course-v3

After this I opened Jupyter Notebook from Anaconda, navigated to the “00_notebook_tutorial” notebook in the “course-v3” folder and I was able to run the whole thing without any errors when I tried this line:
from fastai import*

Hope this helps other n00bs like me.

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