From 5aa9e72390092cba5697204cb50394321a25e1a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Simonini Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:00:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add advice about saving the colab --- notebooks/unit3/unit3.ipynb | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/notebooks/unit3/unit3.ipynb b/notebooks/unit3/unit3.ipynb index 3ae8b17..c72e83f 100644 --- a/notebooks/unit3/unit3.ipynb +++ b/notebooks/unit3/unit3.ipynb @@ -134,6 +134,22 @@ "For more information about the certification process, check this section 👉 https://huggingface.co/deep-rl-course/en/unit0/introduction#certification-process" ] }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "source": [ + "## An advice 💡\n", + "It's better to run this colab in a copy on your Google Drive, so that **if it timeouts** you still have the saved notebook on your Google Drive and do not need to fill everything from scratch.\n", + "\n", + "To do that you can either do `Ctrl + S` or `File > Save a copy in Google Drive.`\n", + "\n", + "Also, we're going to **train it for 90 minutes with 1M timesteps**. By typing `!nvidia-smi` will tell you what GPU you're using.\n", + "\n", + "And if you want to train more such 10 million steps, this will take about 9 hours, potentially resulting in Colab timing out. In that case, I recommend running this on your local computer (or somewhere else). Just click on: `File>Download`. " + ], + "metadata": { + "id": "Nc8BnyVEc3Ys" + } + }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "source": [