Use case of Google Colab over Jupyter Notebook?

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Ritesh Saluja picture Ritesh Saluja · Mar 23, 2018 · Viewed 14.4k times · Source

What are use cases of using Google Colab?, I mean i understand it gels well with Tensorflow, but why will someone prefer it over Jupyter notebook?

Answer

korakot picture korakot · Mar 23, 2018

My reasons for using Colab

  • Work from any computers. All notebooks are saved in Google Drive.
  • Don't need to worry that conda create env will clutter your directories
  • Share to someone, or everyone easily. Just like a Google Doc.
  • Automatic history and versioning
  • Free GPU (and TPU as of 2018-09-29)
  • Form widgets are simple and easier to use
  • Good defaults
    • %matplotlib inline not needed
    • collapsible outline (no need to install)
    • Cleaner interface (I prefer it than vanilla Jupyter)

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