Bought the book and trying out the lesson 1 notebook, but man, I can't seem to make this work. Colab can't import fastbook with the GPU runtime, and the TPU and CPU ones are too slow. Gradient gets a little further, but fails with "self.recorder already registered" on the "#id first_training" cell. Maybe I'm too dumb to be a data scientist, but I didn't expect to have to do this kind of debugging right off the bat.
> I didn't expect to have to do this kind of debugging right off the bat.
Stick with it, and consider setting up your own machine instead of trying to use Colab. I say this because literally the hardest part about the previous course for me was getting started and doing the setup. Once you're able to actually run the notebooks I promise it'll get much easier. I can promise this with confidence because the lectures are excellent, and I've been through what you're talking about on the previous version of this course when I was first starting with AI.
Did you `pip install fastbook`? TPU runtime is slow since there is currently no TPU support (it's upcoming). Please share your issues on forums.fast.ai and I bet the community will help you get up and running very quickly :)
EDIT: I just tried the Colab notebook and it worked successfully for me. We can discuss on the forums if you want.
