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How can you be working with vision models and not know hardware requirements?

Colab became expensive since they introduced compute units. I was using pro+ and running code for 2-3 hours a day. They give you 500 units per month and a premium gpu that costs 13-15 units per hour. I’d rather get a 3070 and run all I want.

433 EUR for 500 compute units seems beyond excessive.

This is horrible if true. Usually they announce such changes ahead of time. Seeing your post I rushed to check the current prices but I see no changes at least in the US. I wanna say this is some sort of error.

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Ah I see. In that case something like this should give you a good direction.

Few things. Don't make a model from scratch, use a pre-trained one. There are plenty on hugging face. Another thing, later on, if you have your own data, you can use it to fine tune those models to better suit your task. This is a general approach to ML applications where data isn't available or not enough. Side note, speaking from experience, those large sentiment models that are out there do have great performance but some of them have been trained with large sentiment datasets that have inconsistencies. For instance, once I had to validate manually the performance on my data and noticed that the pre-trained models predicted the following sentence as POSITIVE sentiment but to a human, this is not positive: "oh yay, I love cold food...". So be careful and setup some sanity checks. Don't fully assume the predictions are accurate.

Try to publish an idea, suddenly everyone beats you to it and you catch up that way.