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[deleted] OP t1_jamvfi6 wrote

Reply to comment by Boonzies in Alternatives to Google Colab by [deleted]

Great info, thank you. I am not against paying but it is a shame if you are just started and have skills to write models but cant train them properly.

My laptop is fairly old Lenovo, has no NVIDIA but Radeon graphics card. So it cant use cuda if I am correct.

I wonder how difficult it to set it up for calculations. That card is useful for "gpu calculations with cuda" correct? That is so much faster afaik.

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Boonzies t1_jamzn2t wrote

There are some AMD GPU chips that might work. But Nvidia is just so much better integrated with TensorFlow and Pytorch and thus the much better hardware.

I equate machine learning to art. You may have great ideas and know-how but at some point you have to buy the material (e.g., good paint, canvas, the better brushes, clay, etc.) to bring your ideas to life.

I know it's frustrating having slow machines when testing models... It really kills the enthusiasm.

I suppose the best thing to do is get into or involved with or work for groups that have the hardware and go from there, or buy new good hardware, or build your own for half price.

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[deleted] OP t1_jan07a3 wrote

Thank you.

I agree, now trying to get the company pay for it.

I'm learning the basics of what is used, for example from this video

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