To get the most out of this book

• The code is written in Python and hosted on GitHub. Though the compressed code repository is available for download, the online GitHub repository will receive bug fixes and updates. Having a basic understanding of GitHub is therefore required, as is having good Python knowledge.
• Although not mandatory, the use of CUDA drivers would help to speed up the training process if you are not using any pretrained models.
• The code examples were developed on an Ubuntu 18.10 machine but will work on all the popular platforms. But if you find any difficulties, feel free to raise an issue in the GitHub repository.
• Some of the examples in the book require you to use other services or packages, such as redis-server and the Flask framework. All those external dependencies and "how-to" guides are documented in the chapters they appear.

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The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/hhsecond/HandsOnDeepLearningWithPytorch. We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

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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. For example; "Mount the downloaded WebStorm-10*.dmg disk image file as another disk in your system."

A block of code is set as follows:

def forward(self, batch):
    hidden = self.hidden(batch)
    activated = torch.sigmoid(hidden)
    out = self.out(activated)
    return out

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

def binary_encoder(input_size):
    def wrapper(num):
        ret = [int(i) for i in '{0:b}'.format(num)]
        return [0] * (input_size - len(ret)) + ret
    return wrapper

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

python -m torch.utils.bottleneck /path/to/source/script.py [args]

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, also appear in the text like this. For example: "Select System info from the Administration panel."

Note

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.