Running FastAI book locally on Linux with Virtualenv

Finally got an NVidia 3060 and a new machine that I built now that prices for GPUs are more reasonable. I am running Manjaro on this new machine and one of the reasons for putting it together was to continue working on the FastAI book. Now the recommended approach by the authors is to use…

Fixing _share_cuda_ Unsupported Operation and Out of Memory Errors with fastai lessons

As mentioned before, I am trying to setup and run the fastai notebooks locally to get some hands-on exposure to deep learning. Unfortunately, if you are running this on Windows or have a very low-end GPU environment like myself you will run into additional problems. First, on Windows, I was hitting the error _share_cuda_ operation…

Setting up and running Jupyter notebooks for the FastAI book locally on Windows or on a Google Cloud Linux Instance

I decided to learn a little bit more about deep learning in practice and bought the Deep Learning for Coders with fastai and PyTorch: AI Applications Without a PhD book to help me get some hands-on exposure to deep learning. I did get the notebook and first examples running on gradient but I was also…