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Download miniforge from the GitHub repository [here](https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge).
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Depending on your operating system, this should download either an `.sh` (macOS, Linux) or `.exe` file (Windows).
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where `Desktop/` is the folder where the Miniforge installer was downloaded to. On your computer, you may have to replace it with `Downloads/`.
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Next, step through the download instructions, confirming with "Enter".
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conda create -n LLMs python=3.10
```
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> Many scientific computing libraries do not immediately support the newest version of Python. Therefore, when installing PyTorch, it's advisable to use a version of Python that is one or two releases older. For instance, if the latest version of Python is 3.13, using Python 3.10 or 3.11 is recommended.
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conda activate LLMs
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conda install jupyterlab watermark
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You can also still use `pip` to install libraries. By default, `pip` should be linked to your new `LLms` conda environment:
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It's also highly recommended to consult the installation guide menu on the official PyTorch website at [https://pytorch.org](https://pytorch.org).
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python python_environment_check.py
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It's also recommended to check the versions in JupyterLab by running the `jupyter_environment_check.ipynb` in this directory, which should ideally give you the same results as above.
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It's also highly recommended to consult the installation guide menu on the official PyTorch website at [https://pytorch.org](https://pytorch.org).
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+## Using Lightning Studio
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+For a smooth development experience in the cloud, I recommend the [Lightning AI Studio](https://lightning.ai/) platform, which allows users to set up a persistent environment and use both VSCode and Jupyter Lab on cloud CPUs and GPUs.
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+Once you start a new Studio, you can open the terminal and execute the following setup steps to clone the repository and install the dependencies:
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch.git
+cd LLMs-from-scratch
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
+
+(In contrast to Google Colab, these only need to be executed once since the Lightning AI Studion environments are persistent).
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+Then, navigate to the Python script or Jupyter Notebook you want to run. Optionally, you can also easily connect a GPU to accelerate the code's runtime, for example, when you are pretraining the LLM in chapter 5 or finetuning it in chapters 6 and 7.
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## Using Google Colab
To use a Google Colab environment in the cloud, head over to [https://colab.research.google.com/](https://colab.research.google.com/) and open the respective chapter notebook from the GitHub menu or by dragging the notebook into the *Upload* field as shown in the figure below.
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