INTRODUCTION
TO USING
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GOOGLE COLAB
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WHAT IS
GOOGLE COLAB
Google Colab is a hosted Jupyter notebook service that
requires no setup to use, while providing access free of
charge to computing resources including GPUs.
Colab allows you to write and execute Python in your
brower, with
• Zero configuration required
• Access to GPUs free
• Easy sharing
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CREATE NOTEBOOK
To start using Google Colab, you first have to log in to your Google account. Then click here to go to Google Colab’s
home page.
The home screen of Google Colab will look like:
To open a new Python notebook, click ‘new notebook’ on the bottom right corner.
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CREATE NOTEBOOK
The opened notebook will look like:
A notebook named Untitled0.iypnb is then created and automatically saved to your Google Drive.
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ENABLE GPU
It is so simple to alter default hardware (CPU to GPU
or vice versa). Just follow Edit > Notebook Setting
or Runtime > Change runtime type and select
Hardware accelerator.
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MOUNT YOUR GOOGLE DRIVE ON YOUR
RUNTIME
One thing that makes Colab the best of all is that it comes with various libraries that help in accessing lots of
Services provided by Google itself. Colab saves all your Jupyter Notebook to Google Drive, and you can share your
Jupyter Notebooks very efficiently anywhere.
But the problem arises when we have to work with huge Dataset, As Colab also provides many ways to upload your
data to its Virtual Machine on which your code is running. But as soon as you got disconnected all of your Data is
lost when you reconnect to new Virtual Machine that is offered to you.
To avoid this problem, you can upload your data to your Google Drive.
To mount Google Drive on Google Colab just use these commands:
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PYTHON TUTORIAL WITH GOOGLE COLAB
https://colab.research.google.com/github/cs231n/cs231n.github.io/blob/master/python-colab.ipynb
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