colab_instructions.md

Running on Google Colab (tested for all weeks)

Google has released its own flavour of Jupyter called Colab, which has free GPUs!

Here's how you can use it:

1. Open https://colab.research.google.com, click Sign in in the upper right corner, use your Google credentials to sign in.
2. Click GITHUB tab, paste https://github.com/hse-aml/intro-to-dl-pytorch and press Enter
3. Choose the notebook you want to open, e.g. week01/week01_linear_models.ipynb
4. Click File -> Save a copy in Drive... to save your progress in Google Drive
5. Click Runtime -> Change runtime type and select GPU in Hardware accelerator box
6. Start with executing some of the first cells that download dependencies and import packages
7. Enjoy the assignment!
8. If you run many notebooks on Colab, they can continue to eat up memory, you can kill them with ! pkill -9 python3 and check with ! nvidia-smi that GPU memory is freed.