Fastai for PyTorch: Fast and accurate neural nets using modern best practices

Re:Fastai for PyTorch: Fast and accurate neural nets using m... by maykr on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:36PM (#18124396)

Hello and thank you for the great work! Hopefully, the new version will work on MacOS with Anaconda, because 0.7 failed there due to the unsatisfied dependency on PIL. Apparently, the default Anaconda channels doesn't include the python 3.x-compiliant PIL package for Darwin. That blocked my progress on ML course.

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Re:Fastai for PyTorch: Fast and accurate neural nets using m... by jph00 on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:47PM (#18124505)

MacOS is really hard to work with for deep learning. Try https://salamander.ai/ . $0.19/hour for a server with NVIDIA GPU, fastai v1 pre-installed with notebooks and datasets. Or try Google Cloud preemptible instances - similar cost IIRC, but a little more setup to do.

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Re:Fastai for PyTorch: Fast and accurate neural nets using m... by ashtonsix on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @03:44PM (#18125044)

Oh, it's $0.36/hour for salamander. the equivalent on gcp (n1-16-standard with attached k80) is $0.29/hour. though as you said, Salamander is easier to get started with (just 1 click after signing up!)

ps: i'm the creator of salamander

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Re:Fastai for PyTorch: Fast and accurate neural nets using m... by kalefranz on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @06:43PM (#18126333)

Are you sure you didn’t want pillow, which provides the PIL import and is the follow-on from the original PIL?

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Re:Fastai for PyTorch: Fast and accurate neural nets using m... by jacquesm on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:40PM (#18124419)

You can always get a server with a GPU instance in the cloud somewhere. That might cost a few $ but then again, so does a GPU.

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