Google Colab notebook taking too long to train

Course Q&A TensorFlow Developer Professional Convolutional Neural Networks in TensorFlow
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    In the first graded lab for week 1, my google colab notebook is taking a very long time to train the model. I had to select “Run without GPU” otherwise I have to access a paid version. Is there any other solution? Thanks!
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Are you trying to run this notebook outside the scape of the course ?

I mean in ‘regular’ Colab I know we have that option, but in the class I don’t think we even get a choice…

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It’s outside the scope of coursera. For previous course’s assignments, they were all through Jupyter notebook. For this one, we had to download the colab after we were done.

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This is an image of what I’m seeing. It’s taking waaaaay too long.

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If you want a lot of computing power on Colab, you have to pay for it.

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I see. Thanks! That makes sense. Out of curiosity, I just let the assignment run, and it ended up taking 2.5 hours. I’ll consider the paid version for future assignments :slight_smile: