Appendix B. Using Google Colab
Google Colaboratory (https://colab.google/), or Colab for short, is a hosted Jupyter notebook service that requires no setup and provides free access to computing resources, including GPUs and TPUs. Colab is especially well suited to machine learning, data science, and education. Colab is free, though there are paid plans with an increased amount of compute units, faster GPUs, more memory, and other features. A huge collection of curated notebooks is available at https://colab.google/notebooks/.
A notebook is a list of cells. Cells contain either explanatory text or executable code and its output. You can interactively run cells and observe their outputs (see figure B.1). The Colab basic features are explained in ...
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