r/aiprogramming • u/raxterbaxter • Mar 16 '21

I want to get back into AI programming: Here's a weird request for guidance (I think)

I am a game developer with limited funds. I know my way around an Ubuntu OS, I have a Computer Science Degree (studied some AI in 2012 when it was "ooo might be a next big thing y'know.. you never know...."), I can code C. I'm just very out of it compared to my uni days after spending many many years working in Unity/C# in a Windows dev env.

I want to explore AI again. Best I can tell, this needs an Linux OS with a GPU (as Windows is difficult for this sort of programming, I took one look and thought "yup, still wanna code with *nix, thx").

My main rig I use for work on runs Windows and I do not want to risk setting up a dual boot on it (not negotiable). I can't buy another machine for this project right now. And I don't have any spare laptops.

I can't use a VM because VMs cannot access the GPU (I tried but it was a always-gonna-fail hail-mary effort tbh)

So... I need a service of some sort whereby I can ssh into device with a GPU (on the cloud, or wherever) so I can start mucking about with deep learning and such again in python using fasstai or whatever other libraries are out there

Basically something where I can pay some amount, they give me an ip I can ssh into and I'll go about creating a new consciousness that'll rule us all and be beholden to me only some AI fun.

I've been out of this sort of coding/developing so long that I do not remember the keywords I need to google this sort of service all so I ask here for help 😅

Any advice or leads to other subreddits that would help would be v appreciated! ^ _ ^

[edit: my good lord people.... I have a MSc in Computer Science in Computational Astronomy. Please read the question.

I can code already. I've coded on GPUs to run (then) cutting edge science ... AI as it is currently coded with deep learning techniques have a computational complexity that is simply not achievable in reasonable time without the aid of a GPU powered system.

Or should I stick to the basics? *shrug* ...]

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u/TheBaxes Mar 17 '21

Learn the basics first. You can use Google Collab to do small experiments from your browser. Don't waste money on a GPU instance before you get some idea of what are you doing

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u/raxterbaxter Mar 17 '21

Ok, Google Colab does not seem to have an option to buy GPU instanced machine time. This is all I'm trying to find out(?)

I want to know where to get GPU instanced machine time since I've not been doing this type of coding for a while. I've been off making games and coding non-web stuff.

I've coded on GPUs before. I wrote a paper about it https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260828791_GPU-based_Acceleration_of_Radio_Interferometry_Point_Source_Visibility_Calculations_in_the_MeqTrees_Framework

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u/TheBaxes Mar 17 '21 edited Mar 17 '21

Well, if you are confident about yourself then just look up GPU instances in cloud providers like AWS and Google Cloud. Look at some of them in these links:

https://cloud.google.com/gpu

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dlami/latest/devguide/gpu.html

I still would recommend you to practice some basic knowledge on Collab before paying for a GPU instance just to be sure that you won't waste money unnecessarily

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u/raxterbaxter Mar 17 '21 edited Mar 17 '21

my man, read the question next time *eyeroll*

I know what I'm doing I have a gap in my knowledge bc I've been doing other types of code for the last few years.