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Re:Deep Learning: Not Just for Silicon Valley by mcintyre1994 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @10:24AM (#13754351)
Do you have to spend money on AWS for this course?
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Re:Deep Learning: Not Just for Silicon Valley by jpuderer on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @12:05PM (#13755246)
No. You can build your own machine, use Google Computer Engine (https://cloud.google.com/gpu/), or even just stick with CPU while you get your feet wet.

I started the course with CPU only, and then switched to a GCE instance (which I run sparingly) when I got tired of waiting for my models to train.

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Re:Deep Learning: Not Just for Silicon Valley by dminor on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @11:16AM (#13754819)
If you want you can just watch the videos. You won't learn quite as deeply but he goes over his solution to the homework.
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Re:Deep Learning: Not Just for Silicon Valley by BrandiATMuhkuh on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @11:08AM (#13754741)
Yes you do. But you can turn off your machine after you are done with your calculations. You probably end up with not more than $20 a month.
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Re:Deep Learning: Not Just for Silicon Valley by a_bonobo on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @12:05AM (#13761321)
That's a good guess! I spent nearly exactly $20 until week 4, including a whole Sunday of fiddling around with the Cats & Dogs dataset
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