Seedbank – Collection of Interactive Machine Learning Examples (opens in new tab)

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263 pointsgunzor7y ago14 comments

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I was initially skeptical of Colaboratory notebooks when it was first released, but the value of a free GPU (and Python 3 support eventually added) makes it worthwhile to use. I recently wrote a tutorial on training a text-generating neural network based on Colaboratory here: http://minimaxir.com/2018/05/text-neural-networks/ (and I have trained many-hours-worth of models with it!)

The only problem I have with the Colaboratory Notebooks is that file I/O is a pain in the butt (and requires Chrome).

mtyka7y ago

fwiw we have an example notebook for I/O:

https://tools.google.com/seedbank/seed/5646239437684736

Transfer from Google Drive is particularly fast (many GB is no problem) since it's google datacenter to datacenter.

ma2rten7y ago

If you don't mind me asking: It seems like you can just run arbitrary stuff in a cloud instance for free using colab including GPUs. This doesn't sound a like a sustainable offering.

This sounds a lot like the old Google, which offered a lot of stuff for free but had to shut it down. Do you have any thoughts on that? Are there plans for a paid offering?

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mkl7y ago

Unrelated, but since you're here: The animated background on that site seems completely unnecessary and uses a lot of resources - it makes my laptop's fans go crazy.

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inertiatic7y ago

Wow this seems like an incredible resource. Thanks for sharing.

TBastiani7y ago

What a terrible name.

profosaur7y ago

I literally thought it was a sperm bank.

TBastiani7y ago

"Like Uber but for sperm banks"

imh7y ago

>Could not access the resources needed to display output. This is probably because third-party cookies are not allowed by your browser.

mtyka7y ago

Can you elaborate on this ? Do you get this when just accessing tools.google.com/seedbank or inside a Colab notebook ? What browser are you using ?

imh7y ago

I clicked into one of the featured seeds, then clicked to open the seed in colab. https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/magenta/music_va...

Then I click the first little play button for "Setup Environment" then it gives me that error. I'm on chrome 67.0.3396.99 on OSX, and I do in fact have third party cookies disabled (for the usual privacy reasons).

Specifically it is `NotSupportedError: Failed to register a ServiceWorker: The user denied permission to use Service Worker.` which is probably due to the privacy settings?

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minimaxir7y ago

The only problem I have with the Colaboratory Notebooks is that file I/O is a pain in the butt (and requires Chrome).

mtyka7y ago

fwiw we have an example notebook for I/O:

https://tools.google.com/seedbank/seed/5646239437684736

Transfer from Google Drive is particularly fast (many GB is no problem) since it's google datacenter to datacenter.

ma2rten7y ago

If you don't mind me asking: It seems like you can just run arbitrary stuff in a cloud instance for free using colab including GPUs. This doesn't sound a like a sustainable offering.

This sounds a lot like the old Google, which offered a lot of stuff for free but had to shut it down. Do you have any thoughts on that? Are there plans for a paid offering?

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mkl7y ago

Unrelated, but since you're here: The animated background on that site seems completely unnecessary and uses a lot of resources - it makes my laptop's fans go crazy.

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inertiatic7y ago

Wow this seems like an incredible resource. Thanks for sharing.

TBastiani7y ago

What a terrible name.

profosaur7y ago

I literally thought it was a sperm bank.

TBastiani7y ago

"Like Uber but for sperm banks"

imh7y ago

>Could not access the resources needed to display output. This is probably because third-party cookies are not allowed by your browser.

mtyka7y ago

Can you elaborate on this ? Do you get this when just accessing tools.google.com/seedbank or inside a Colab notebook ? What browser are you using ?

imh7y ago

I clicked into one of the featured seeds, then clicked to open the seed in colab. https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/magenta/music_va...

Specifically it is `NotSupportedError: Failed to register a ServiceWorker: The user denied permission to use Service Worker.` which is probably due to the privacy settings?

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