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Re:Ask HN: Anybody using Amazon Machine Image for AWS Deep L... by jph00 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:06AM (#14050586)
To answer your question about the http://course.fast.ai MOOC: the course provides an AMI that has everything you need pre-installed. Just follow the directions in the setup video, which includes a script that sets up the instance for you.

To save around 80% (but slightly less convenient) there are two ways to use spot instances provided on http://forums.fast.ai that are largely automated and work well.

In part 2 of the course you'll learn how to set up your own server. As others have mentioned that's much better value if you're using deep learning somewhat regularly.

(I'm the founder/teacher of this course.)

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Re:Ask HN: Anybody using Amazon Machine Image for AWS Deep L... by shoshin23 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @11:47AM (#14051629)
I can totally vouch for the ease with which you can setup your deep learning AMI. I followed the instructions on the site and the scripts provided by Jeremy abstract a lot of the stuff away. Super cool work!
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