fastchan, a new conda mini-distribution

4 · fast.ai · July 15, 2021, midnight
Summary: today we’re announcing fastchan, a new conda mini-distribution with a focus on the PyTorch ecosystem. Using fastchan, installation and updates of libraries such as PyTorch and RAPIDS is faster, easier, and more reliable. This fantastic blog post by the brilliant Aman Arora of Weights and Biases provides a great overview of what fastchan is for, how it relates to other parts of the ecosystem, and how it makes life easier in practice. What you need to know If you use Anaconda, you can n...