Hi everybody,
I just wanted to share my small progress! I’m one of these people that has more enthusiasm than technical skill…at least for now. I tried to start the course using Google Cloud Services and got through most of the initial start-up. It was 3-4 days of reading google docs and trying to let them give me access to a GPU quota…I got through all of it except I still couldn’t render a Jupyter notebook in my browser?! I asked @mrfabulous1 what he thought I should do, and he suggested using Google Colab…I dusted off my google drive account and attempted to use Colab, but I still couldn’t get a proper rendering of the notebooks I think I needed to start the course material. It took me a day to realize that Colab is not exactly like Jupyter notebook. I did start to get the lay of the terrain, but I was still not confident that I knew what I was doing…Finally, I remembered that Jeremy Howard had mentioned that Salamander.ai was fool proof and anyone could do it!
It just so happens today was my birthday, and my wife asked me what I wanted. I said I wanted to spend the day on the computer( to launch Salamander.ai)!!! So I spent the day at the house, and signed up an account with Salamander. Then I finally got a proper Jupyter Notebook to launch just like Jeremy Howard has in his lecture! I’m so happy to finally get somewhere! It’s just a baby step, but I feel really good about it. So I just wanted to say that if anyone else is having trouble getting started, to just stick with it!
Also, when I get some more experience, I want to iterate over using Colab and GCP and add something helpful to beginners in the documentation!
~Cheers everybody!
I am surprised you couldn’t get Colab to work. You just need the notebook and you can upload it to colab and easily use it. Plus it’s free!
Yeah, I agree with you. If I was more confident in what I was doing, I was probably only a couple clicks away from a screen that I would have recognized. It’s like that LedZeppelin song ‘Fool in the rain’…his date was waiting for him, he was just on the wrong block!
Here’s what I would do:
- Go to here press on the notebook you need, and download to your computer.
- Go to colab.research.google.com and log into your account. You should see a pop-up like this:
Press upload and upload the notebook you want. - Now at the top, you can press Runtime, Change Runtime Type, and select GPU. Now you can use free GPU!
It should take 5 minutes so if you have trouble let me know and I will try to help.
And Happy Birthday!