Google Colab tips #Colab

colab.md

• Top features
  • Generate full cell of code with gemini
  • Expain error with gemini and Google search.
• Local connection
  • Option 1: jupyter notebook (simpler than docker, but with limited functionalities)

jupyter notebook \
    --NotebookApp.allow_origin='https://colab.research.google.com' \
    --port=8888 \
    --NotebookApp.port_retries=0

• Settings

  • Editor, check
    • Enable code folding in the editor
    • Enable code wrapper in the editor
  • AI Assistance
    • Consented to use generative AI features

• Free tiers:

Free Tiers

• Limit seems reset every 12--24 hours.
  • Better to buy compute credits and be frugal in usage.
• How to open termianl
  • execute:

!pip install colab-xterm
%load_ext colabxterm

• in a new cell: %xterm

How to run run Ollama

1. Install and launch ollama server

!pip install ollama
!curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
!nohup ollama serve &  # no hang up
!ollama pull llama3.1

2. In code:

import ollama

response = ollama.generate(model='gemma:2b', prompt='What is a qubit?')
print(response['response'])