In lesson 1 right before the #id first_training, there should be a line that lets users on Google Colab to go to the Colab menu bar's "Runtime" --> "Change runtime type" --> "GPU".
I had no idea that I needed to change the "Runtime" on Google Colab from "CPU" to "GPU". Before the change it took over an hour to run the first training, after the change it was 2 minutes.
The change, with time in background:
Before the change, the slow run on the default CPU:
In lesson 1 right before the
#id first_training, there should be a line that lets users on Google Colab to go to the Colab menu bar's "Runtime" --> "Change runtime type" --> "GPU".I had no idea that I needed to change the "Runtime" on Google Colab from "CPU" to "GPU". Before the change it took over an hour to run the first training, after the change it was 2 minutes.
The change, with time in background:
Before the change, the slow run on the default CPU: