To get the most out of this book

A basic knowledge of Python is a prerequisite, while a familiarity with machine learning concepts will be helpful.

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "You can run the nvidia-smi command to know which version of driver is installed on your system."

A block of code is set as follows:

docker volume ls -q -f driver=nvidia-docker | xargs -r -I{} -n1 docker ps -q -a -f volume={} | xargs -r docker rm -f

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

sudo ./build.sh

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Tips and tricks appear like this.