intro_lectures

I am giving these lectures from IPython Notebooks. I strongly suggest you open them up and play with them yourself!

Google Colab

The easiest approach to getting the notebooks working is by uploading them to Google Colab. You can either download the notebook, and upload it. Or you can even load it directly from GitHub by going to "GitHub" instead of "Upload", and pasting in a link to the notebook, e.g.

https://github.com/LaurenceA/intro_lectures/blob/master/Lecture_1.ipynb

Note that you may have to delete the

%matplotlib widget

line in the first code block in Google Colab.

Anaconda Python

If you want to get the notebooks running locally, I advise that you start by installing Anaconda Python distribution, which is available on all operating systems, and comes with all the major numerical programming libraries.

In addition, you need to install PyTorch,

conda install pytorch torchvision -c pytorch

To get %matplotlib widget working, you also need to install jupyter-matplotlib, using

conda install -c conda-forge ipympl

# If using the Notebook
conda install -c conda-forge widgetsnbextension

# If using JupyterLab
conda install nodejs
jupyter labextension install @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager
jupyter labextension install jupyter-matplotlib