Inside Deep Learning

Appendix. Setting up Colab

All of the code in this book is written using Python 3 as a Jupyter notebook. While you can set up Jupyter and the software libraries on your own computer using Anaconda (www.anaconda.com/products/individual), this book takes the approach of using Google’s Colab service (https://colab.research.google.com). Google Colab has all the needed software libraries preinstalled and provides access to a free graphics processing unit (GPU) for limited periods. This is enough for you to get started learning without having to invest hundreds or thousands of dollars in a computing setup. This appendix walks through how to get set up with Google Colab; I encourage you to get the Pro version, which is currently only a few dollars a ...