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by zeptomu 2598 days ago
> We've been recently working in a FREE hosted version [...]

Oh no, you make it sound like this is a good thing. It only means I can't take you serious.

Don't make it free. That is not a feature for a computation environment, it will only cause headaches on your side and people get wrong (bad) impression about the performance (assuming free accounts get some limited shared instances).

I rather pay a monthly fee for a good application, than a pseudo free instance, where you get limited resources. Do you have your credits forever?
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martinzugnoni 2598 days ago
That's a very good point. We wanted to make it super accessible for students using Jupyter. Also, we only support very small containers which of course don't have GPU. It's not mainly intended to be used for business, but for learning purposes.
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synaesthesisx 2598 days ago
What would be the difference between using this and something like Google Colab?
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martinzugnoni 2598 days ago
We were using Colab and Azure Notebooks before, but we found a few not covered requirements. For example:

* We added a way for students to present their projects / analysis in an static blog-looking version of their notebooks. Here's an example: https://notebooks.ai/martinzugnoni/how-to-trade-bitcoin-with...

They can share that version with classmates, and classmates can "fork" the project and do their own changes to it.

* Also, we added a custom JupyterLab extension called "solutions" that allow the teacher to mark certains parts of the notebooks as assignment solution and it will be hidden for the student until they decide to reveal it. Here's how it works:

(teacher) https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7065401/50402147-1...

(student) https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7065401/50402146-1...

We now have the ability to keep adding educational relates stuff to it, without depending on Google or Microsoft, that are not focussed on this space.

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