Getting the most out of Notebooks

Kaggle provides a certain amount of resources for free, with the quotas resetting weekly. You get a certain number of hours to use with both GPU and TPU; it is 30 hours for TPU, but for GPU the numbers can vary from week to week (you can find the official statement describing the “floating” quotas policy here: https://www.kaggle.com/product-feedback/173129). You can always monitor your usage in your own profile:

Figure 3.13: Current status for accelerator quotas

While the amounts might seem large at first glance, this initial impression can be deceptive; it is actually fairly easy to use your quota very quickly. Some practical suggestions that can help you control the usage of the resources:

• The counter for the quota (measuring how long you have been using your chosen accelerator, GPU or TPU) starts running the moment you initialize your Notebook.
• This means that you should always start by checking that...