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by madenine 2033 days ago
If you want to dabble; use the cloud.

Colab is free. Colab Pro is $10/mo. GPU instances give you access to better hardware and don't lock up your machine for hours/days at a time.
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nickysielicki 2032 days ago
Moving data in and out is a pain in the ass, though. I wish they would just give me shell access instead of forcing me to use notebooks.
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ArtWomb 2033 days ago
>>> If you want to dabble; use the cloud. Colab is free

Colab notebooks are proving to be one of the most incredible resources out there right now. I liken it to the "free tier" cloud vm / app engine / heroku of a decade ago ;)

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nvarsj 2033 days ago
Is it the same? I've done CUDA development myself, and the ease of local development is hard to beat.
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madenine 2033 days ago
No, its not really the same - but the parent is "planning to have a dabble with NLP and machine learning" so my guess is HuggingFace/SpaCy/PyTorch/Tensorflow/FastAI are more the consideration than touching CUDA directly.
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