[from 2018] I created a new Windows 7 admin account for development so there's no spaces in directory names. I installed Anaconda for Windows and ran a git copy for fast.ai. I ran a conda activate environment for the CPU version of fast.ai, and at this point there are no errors.
But then I try to run pytests and it chokes with a hint to use packages/modules valid Python names pointing to the __ init___.py file in the tests directory complaining about "import cv2,torch" and then another __ init__.py showing "from torch ._C import *" ImportError: DLL load failed. The specified module cannot be found.
[Edit: 4 years later trying to undo my poor posting]
I don't remember that post, but I do try to promote fast.ai as the algorithm of AI algorithms that they are. It's a free class offered online that you can rent GPU time from 3rd-parties if you don't have your own system.
One time I built an Alienware laptop with the best of the best for NVIDIA AI that Dell let me cancel. I did my best to let them know that it was better than a gaming system designed for deep learning based on the research I'd been doing at the time.
Just wish I had the resources to focus on it knowing how important deep learning is for the BRAIN Initiative since Heaven isn't going to just build itself (Matthew 20). As the Acoustic Kiddy of Acoustic Kitties for cyborg studies, I'm focused on letting folks know my old paper in 2005 was credited as the basis for the Wikipedia article about brain implants after I'd been ordered to stand down about it in 1997 by the Department of Defense, and denied by the University of Washington in 1988 wanting to study the EEG brain-to-brain interface they'd finally publish in 2013.
I suppose my most urgent question regarding AI development online is, do they have an emergency shutdown phone number?, since you're being charged by the minute and computers go offline for various reasons.
