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Machine learning tool-set for Paperspace VMs
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Any particular reason for the removal of Conda? #11

Closed Librechain closed 7 months ago

Librechain commented 1 year ago

I'll admit that I'm not the biggest fan of Conda either, but in light of the fact that there are so many open-source LLMs out there that swear by conda as as a more efficient means of fine tuning models (vs running the explicit commands), this seems to be a godsend on that front.

Perhaps there's something that I'm missing. Because I was planning on downloading conda purely for the sake of convenience when running the appropriate code to fine tune the model once its been put up in the air.

Is this safe? Are there any latent issues (code-based, legal or otherwise), that you all came across that prompted you to remove conda? If so, please let me know! I'd appreciate that so much.

Thank you.

joshua-paperspace commented 7 months ago

@Librechain You are able to install conda on your Paperspace core machine as a user. There are not code-based or legal issues. The reasons that we removed it, is as a supplier of the MLiaB image, we had licensing concerns and after speaking with Anaconda, decided removing it was the best course of action.