I have a really old HP Pavilion G6, which is capable of simple programming task(app/website development and writing scripts), but when it comes to deep learning specially with tensorflow, it just throttles and never gives output.
I have heard about splitting task on GPU(my GPU isn't good either) but haven't tried it so can someone give me suggestions about doing deep learning stuff on older laptops?
I have tried Kaggle kernels but the website becomes unresponsive sometimes.Also, I am a student so for now I don't have enough money to buy a new one
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Have you considered cloud computing? Google Colab gives you a Tesla K80 GPU for 12 hours in a row and its free. You could also pay for some Floyhub machine.
Thanks, I will try it.
Just curious, did you ever find a nice solution? I'm waiting a few more months before investing in new hardware... My current machine is also junk.
CoLab does seem pretty nice, I used that a tiny bit. Sometimes I've busted the RAM limit.
Have a Kaggle account but haven't dug in.
Sorry, I couldn't resist :P
Definitely outsource it, use the #cloud.
I played with training neural nets to perform OCR back in the late 80s on my ZX Spectrum. That had 128K of RAM and a processor that ran at 4Mhz
Tried TensorFlow? LOL