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Colab notebooks

Colab notebooks

- [Instructor] Google Colabs is a service that has a free version and a pro or paid version. The free version is great for trying out and exploring existing machine learning models. As you'll notice here, we're in a web browser and we're not in the Google Cloud. If you are working with a Colabs notebook, what you can do once you explore it is you can connect it to a custom Google Cloud Engine VM instance. By default, the free version runs on Google resources that you do not pay for. Those are constrained though, so when you move from evaluating a small data set to a larger data set, you often will change the connection. When you're working with CoLab you have a version of a Jupyter Notebook. So you have cells that are code or text, and then as shown here, you have code that can be executed. What you do is you associate this with a runtime, and this example notebook uses Python, and here it shows the results of this…

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