So to prevent another dozen of answers suggesting invalid in the context of this thread suggestion to !kill -9 -1, let’s close this thread: The answer is simple: As of this writing Google simply gives only 5% of GPU to some of us, whereas 100% to the others. Period. dec-2019 update: The problem still exists … Read more
Below is an example of creating interactive iplot() in Plotly and cufflinks() on Google Colab Notebook. Used functions and suggestions from the answer [1, 2] The key seems to be to include configure_plotly_browser_state() in the cell that does the plotting. Code below should work: Import libraries import datetime from datetime import date import pandas as … Read more
Edit: As of February, 2020, there’s now a first-class UI for automatically mounting Drive. First, open the file browser on the left hand side. It will show a ‘Mount Drive’ button. Once clicked, you’ll see a permissions prompt to mount Drive, and afterwards your Drive files will be present with no setup when you return … Read more
There is a way to use any version of python you want 3.5 or 3.8 in this example, without having to run a kernel locally or going through an ngrok proxy. Download the colab notebook. Open a text editor to change the kernel specification to: “kernelspec”: { “name”: “py38”, “display_name”: “Python 3.8” } This is … Read more
Google Colab removed support for Tensorflow 1, and it is not possible to use %tensorflow_version 1.x magic anymore. You must remove this instruction from your code if you have it. Also the default python version as I update this answer is python 3.8 which is not compatible with tensorflow 1.x. To make everything work you … Read more
You can see the disk information using a command like !df -h. To see CPU specs, !cat /proc/cpuinfo. For memory, !cat /proc/meminfo. Here’s an example notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/notebook#fileId=1_x67fw9y5aBW72a8aGePFLlkPvKLpnBl Edit: Colab now offers a Pro version which offers double the amount of disk available in the free version.
You can activate and run a new conda environment in Google Colab by using the magic %%bash command: %%bash source activate myenv python import sys # some simple python commands sys.path.append(‘/usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages’) print(sys.path) print(“Python version”) print(sys.version) Also including a few other commands I needed to run to get my environment setup completely: !conda update conda -y … Read more
Google colab crashes if you try to display image using cv2.imshow() instead import from google.colab.patches import cv2_imshow and display using cv2_imshow(<image>)
What solved the problem for me was to restart my kernel, import the following first: import matplotlib matplotlib.use(‘TKAgg’) Then, import matplotlib.pyplot as plt You probably imported matplotlib with another framework before you tried to change to TKAgg. Restart your kernel.
PROBLEM: I have to training my model for hours but the google colab keeps disconnecting after 30 mins automatically if I do not click frequently, leading to loss of all data. SOLUTION: Steps: Open the inspector view by typing Ctrl+ Shift + i and then clicking on console tab at top. Paste the below code … Read more