If you want to dabble; use the cloud.
Colab is free. Colab Pro is $10/mo. GPU instances give you access to better hardware and don't lock up your machine for hours/days at a time.
Colab is free. Colab Pro is $10/mo. GPU instances give you access to better hardware and don't lock up your machine for hours/days at a time.
Colab notebooks are proving to be one of the most incredible resources out there right now. I liken it to the "free tier" cloud vm / app engine / heroku of a decade ago ;)