My Old MacBook Air Couldn't Handle It — So I Used Google Colab to Train an AI#1
The author shares their experience of using Google Colab to train an AI for an offline card game. They faced limitations with their old MacBook Air and sought a solution that would allow for reinforcement learning. The article details the process of setting up Google Colab and integrating it with Google Drive for the training tasks.
- ▪The author wanted to train an AI to play a card game but faced hardware limitations with their old MacBook Air.
- ▪Google Colab provides a free Python execution environment that allows users to run heavy workloads without local hardware constraints.
- ▪The article explains how to mount Google Drive in Colab and execute a Rust binary for training the AI.
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