FastAI Setup [Deprecated]

Notes

FastAI

Tools

Author

Agastya Patel

Published

December 29, 2023

Modified

December 30, 2023

In this section we’ll be going through the setting up the wsl for FastAI.

Read more about mamba, conda and all package managers in Package Manager and Environment

Setting up Windows Subsystem

Command	Action
`ls -l`	get long form (file, data, size-bytes)
`ls -l -h`	human readable data like the size of the file in MB
`less <filename>`	Open the file
`wget <url>`	Download file
`sudo -u <user> -i`	Change user
ctrl+d	Exit any application running in shell
`! <some_letter>`	Opens similar letter recent application Eg; `!ju` # Might open jupyterLab
`!!`	Opens last command
`cd --`	Most recent Directory
`pushd ~`	Stash Dir
`popd`	Unstash Dir (Pop Dir)
echo $ENV_VAR `echo $PATH`	Returns value of environment variables like Path Variable
`df -h`	disk usage
`logout`	exit
ls . \| Head	Show first 10
ls . \| Tail	Show last 10
ls . \| wc -l	Gives number of lines (items)
ls . \| grep 33	Search 33

Create new environment ==mamba create -n <env_name> <dependency>== mamba create -n tmp 'python<3.10' fastcore
Activate/deactivate mamba activate <env_name> mamba deactivate

pip -U <library> : Upgrade library pip -U --user <library> : Installs library in User Directory in .local folder

sudo apt install tmux

Command	Action
`ctrl + b %` `ctrl + b "`	Split Pane horizontal and vertical
`ctrl + b Arrow`	Focus around Panes
`ctrl + b d`	Delete Pane
`ctrl + b z`	Zoom into/out-of pane

nvidia-smi dmon: Chec for sm and mem column

ln -s target-path : Creates a symblink of the target directory in current directory ln -la : Displays the folders who are made up of symblink

Q. How to set common library?

pip install --user with this flag so that the lib is installed in .local
move the .local to /storage/.local
create symblink from /storage/.local as target and it would create .bash.local in storage which would fire up time new instance has been called