Running the Udacity Deep Learning Foundations image classification project on floydhub.com

1. Create an account on floydhub.com (don't forget to confirm your email). You will automatically receive 100 free GPU hours.

2. Install the floyd command on your computer:

    pip install -U floyd-cli
   

   Do this even if you already installed floyd-cli before, just to make sure you have the most recent version (Its pace of development is fast!).

3. Associate the command with your Floyd account:

    floyd login
   

   (a page with authentication token will open; you will need to copy the token into your terminal)

4. Clone this repository:

    git clone https://github.com/ludwiktrammer/deep-learning.git
   

   Note: There are couple minor differences between this repository and the original Udacity repository. You can read about them in README. To follow this instructions you need to use this repository.

5. Enter the folder for the image classification project:

    cd image-classification
   

6. Initiate a Floyd project:

    floyd init dlnd_image_classification
   

7. Run the project:

    floyd run --gpu --env tensorflow --mode jupyter --data diSgciLH4WA7HpcHNasP9j
   

   It will be run on a machine with GPU (--gpu), using a Tenserflow environment (--env tensorflow), as a Jupyter notebook (--mode jupyter), with Floyd's built-in cifar-10 dataset available (--data diSgciLH4WA7HpcHNasP9j).

8. Wait for the Jupyter notebook to become available and then access the URL displayed in the terminal (described as "path to jupyter notebook"). You will see the notebook.

9. Remember to explicitly stop the experiment when you are not using the notebook. As long as it runs (even in the background) it will cost GPU hours. You can stop an experiment in the "Experiments" section on floyd.com or using the floyd stop command:

    floyd stop ID
   

   (where ID is the "RUN ID" displayed in the terminal when you run the project; if you lost it you can also find it in the "Experiments" section on floyd.com)

Important: When you run a project it will always start from scratch (i.e. from the state present locally on your computer). If you made changes in the remote jupiter notebook during a previous run, the changes will not be present in subsequent runs. To make them permanent you need to add the changes to your local project folder. When running the notebook you can download them directly from Jupyter - File / Download / Notebook. After downloading it, just replace your local dlnd_image_classification.ipynb file with the newly downloaded one.

Alternatively, If you already stoped the experiment, you can still download the file using the floyd output command:

floyd output ID

(where ID is the "RUN ID" displayed in the terminal when you run the project; if you lost it you can also find it in the "Experiments" section on floyd.com)

Just run the command above, download dlnd_image_classification.ipynb and replace your local version with the newly downloaded one.

How is this repository different from the original?

1. I added support for Floyds built-in cifar-10 dataset. If its presence is detected, it will be used, without a need to download anything. (see the commit, learn more abut datasets provided by Floyd)

2. I added a floyd_requirements.txt file, so an additional dependency is automatically taken care of. (see the commit, learn more about .floyd_requirements.txt files)

3. I added a .floydignore file to stop local data from being uploaded to Floyd - which wastes time and may even result in a timeout (see the commit, learn more about .floydignore files)

4. I added this README