{
  "id": 117146,
  "title": "lyft 3d detection data is too large for my mac",
  "url": "/competitions/3d-object-detection-for-autonomous-vehicles/discussion/117146",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2019-11-13T15:08:41.111065500Z",
  "votes": -2,
  "comment_count": 15,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>I was going to do this competition but 84 GB of data is simply too much. Is there a way around it or a similar kaggle with much, much lower data requirement? Thanks</p>",
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    {
      "id": "672156",
      "postDate": "11/13/2019 15:08:41",
      "content": "<p>I was going to do this competition but 84 GB of data is simply too much. Is there a way around it or a similar kaggle with much, much lower data requirement? Thanks</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I was going to do this competition but 84 GB of data is simply too much. Is there a way around it or a similar kaggle with much, much lower data requirement? Thanks",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "672475",
      "postDate": "11/13/2019 23:43:51",
      "content": "<p>and sadly they use zip file instead of tar :( with tar file, you can decompress stream during download and filter files if you want</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "and sadly they use zip file instead of tar :( with tar file, you can decompress stream during download and filter files if you want",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "673062",
      "postDate": "11/14/2019 13:31:06",
      "content": "<p>for those that give negative points can they tell something intelligent and useful like you can run the data on their server, Please stop being in love with yourselves.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "for those that give negative points can they tell something intelligent and useful like you can run the data on their server, Please stop being in love with yourselves.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "673069",
      "postDate": "11/14/2019 13:34:48",
      "content": "<p>Is it possible to run it on kaggle server? you know what are these negative points for?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Is it possible to run it on kaggle server? you know what are these negative points for?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "673138",
      "postDate": "11/14/2019 15:03:53",
      "content": "<p>For this kind of competition you really need to have a dedicated Deep Learning PC. A typical setup is Ubuntu, multicore cpu, SSD drive, lots of ram 32gb+ preferably, and a GPU like a GTX 1080ti, RTX 2070 etc...</p>\n\n<p>Using Kaggle notebooks is also a great option and they have GPU access but it's limited to 30 hrs per week. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "For this kind of competition you really need to have a dedicated Deep Learning PC. A typical setup is Ubuntu, multicore cpu, SSD drive, lots of ram 32gb+ preferably, and a GPU like a GTX 1080ti, RTX 2070 etc...\n\nUsing Kaggle notebooks is also a great option and they have GPU access but it's limited to 30 hrs per week.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "673148",
      "postDate": "11/14/2019 15:27:36",
      "content": "<p>Thank you very much Jack, this is what I call useful information and it would be a delight to get a negative mark from you. I have never hear about kaggle notebooks, I am very new to this. I take it, is a sight I sign into and I do not have to download the data any more. Learning is what is important to me. Thanks again.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you very much Jack, this is what I call useful information and it would be a delight to get a negative mark from you. I have never hear about kaggle notebooks, I am very new to this. I take it, is a sight I sign into and I do not have to download the data any more. Learning is what is important to me. Thanks again.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "673153",
      "postDate": "11/14/2019 15:32:57",
      "content": "<p>Try not be discouraged by the downvotes or take it too personally. If your questions is something you could have easily googled or spent a few minutes clicking around and exploring the interface to figure out then probably not a great idea to ask it here.</p>\n\n<p>Also, mentioning mac is probably going to guarantee a few downvotes! 😛  I use a mac for my day job but there is not much love for macs on here, the price being a big factor and the lack of support for CUDA and Nvidia GPUs. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Try not be discouraged by the downvotes or take it too personally. If your questions is something you could have easily googled or spent a few minutes clicking around and exploring the interface to figure out then probably not a great idea to ask it here.\n\nAlso, mentioning mac is probably going to guarantee a few downvotes! 😛  I use a mac for my day job but there is not much love for macs on here, the price being a big factor and the lack of support for CUDA and Nvidia GPUs.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "673155",
      "postDate": "11/14/2019 15:38:22",
      "content": "<p>Welcome, if you look at the tab bar with overview, data, notebooks and click on notebooks you can create a Jupyter Notebook that runs on Kaggle's servers, the competition dataset will be available to you within this environment. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Welcome, if you look at the tab bar with overview, data, notebooks and click on notebooks you can create a Jupyter Notebook that runs on Kaggle's servers, the competition dataset will be available to you within this environment.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "673196",
      "postDate": "11/14/2019 16:46:32",
      "content": "<p>I bought mac thinking it would support the latest technologies and I was shocked when I wanted to use it for GPU, but I am stuck with it as I paid so much but never again. Thanks again</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I bought mac thinking it would support the latest technologies and I was shocked when I wanted to use it for GPU, but I am stuck with it as I paid so much but never again. Thanks again",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "673249",
      "postDate": "11/14/2019 18:05:35",
      "content": "<p>You need to throw more money at it and buy a thunderbolt-pcie-gpu-enclosure like razer core-x or similar then put in a decent pcie-nvidia-gpu and boot linux anyways for deeplearning frameworks.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "You need to throw more money at it and buy a thunderbolt-pcie-gpu-enclosure like razer core-x or similar then put in a decent pcie-nvidia-gpu and boot linux anyways for deeplearning frameworks.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "673260",
      "postDate": "11/14/2019 18:16:22",
      "content": "<p>What kind of money are we talking about? One big problem I have is that I travel a lot and relocate completely so it has to be transportable.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "What kind of money are we talking about? One big problem I have is that I travel a lot and relocate completely so it has to be transportable.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "673307",
      "postDate": "11/14/2019 19:50:11",
      "content": "<p>You using a mac has nothing to do with the downvotes. I use a macbook everyday, I switched about a year ago because developing IOS apps on a hackintosh VM was a nightmare. For coding IMO it's the best notebook money can buy,\nbut for deep learning, it's only good to SSH into a workstation :)</p>\n\n<p>To answer your original question, the starter kernel creates 2D images from the data, you could create a dataset from that, and download it. Only about a few GB in size.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "You using a mac has nothing to do with the downvotes. I use a macbook everyday, I switched about a year ago because developing IOS apps on a hackintosh VM was a nightmare. For coding IMO it's the best notebook money can buy,\nbut for deep learning, it's only good to SSH into a workstation :)\n\nTo answer your original question, the starter kernel creates 2D images from the data, you could create a dataset from that, and download it. Only about a few GB in size.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "673347",
      "postDate": "11/14/2019 21:44:27",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for the info. So there is a kernel called starter that you run for that and you do not need to convert the 2D images on your computer to full size data? I have not come across that kernel.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks for the info. So there is a kernel called starter that you run for that and you do not need to convert the 2D images on your computer to full size data? I have not come across that kernel.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "673358",
      "postDate": "11/14/2019 22:17:20",
      "content": "<p><code>84 GB of data is simply too much.</code>\nI just don't understand this. You bought a PC that doesn't have 100 GB HDD or SSD? For reference, I bought a 3 TB HDD in 2012 and I'm still using it. This year I bought a couple of 1 TB NVMe SSD disks, they really do help a lot when I'm dealing with Computer Vision challenges.</p>\n\n<p>And yes, you absolutely need a computer with GPU. It's typically a Linux PC, Ubuntu or something similar. Ideally, you need more than one GPU, 1 TB SSD and (32 Gb * number of GPUs) of memory.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "`84 GB of data is simply too much.`\nI just don't understand this. You bought a PC that doesn't have 100 GB HDD or SSD? For reference, I bought a 3 TB HDD in 2012 and I'm still using it. This year I bought a couple of 1 TB NVMe SSD disks, they really do help a lot when I'm dealing with Computer Vision challenges.\n\nAnd yes, you absolutely need a computer with GPU. It's typically a Linux PC, Ubuntu or something similar. Ideally, you need more than one GPU, 1 TB SSD and (32 Gb * number of GPUs) of memory.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "673592",
      "postDate": "11/15/2019 07:45:05",
      "content": "<p>Sorry it's called reference model, here you go: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/gzuidhof/reference-model\">https://www.kaggle.com/gzuidhof/reference-model</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Sorry it's called reference model, here you go: https://www.kaggle.com/gzuidhof/reference-model",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "673775",
      "postDate": "11/15/2019 13:25:30",
      "content": "<p>I have a mac with 250 SSD for everything, unfortunately I travel a lot and impossible to have pc, but I am dying to buy one. For now I have to be content on running code on clouds and other people servers</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I have a mac with 250 SSD for everything, unfortunately I travel a lot and impossible to have pc, but I am dying to buy one. For now I have to be content on running code on clouds and other people servers",
      "votes": null
    }
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 672475,
      "author_name": "oarphme",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/13/2019 23:43:51",
      "content": "<p>and sadly they use zip file instead of tar :( with tar file, you can decompress stream during download and filter files if you want</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 673069,
          "author_name": "kevinehsani",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "11/14/2019 13:34:48",
          "content": "<p>Is it possible to run it on kaggle server? you know what are these negative points for?</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
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    },
    {
      "id": 673062,
      "author_name": "kevinehsani",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/14/2019 13:31:06",
      "content": "<p>for those that give negative points can they tell something intelligent and useful like you can run the data on their server, Please stop being in love with yourselves.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 673138,
      "author_name": "jackvial",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/14/2019 15:03:53",
      "content": "<p>For this kind of competition you really need to have a dedicated Deep Learning PC. A typical setup is Ubuntu, multicore cpu, SSD drive, lots of ram 32gb+ preferably, and a GPU like a GTX 1080ti, RTX 2070 etc...</p>\n\n<p>Using Kaggle notebooks is also a great option and they have GPU access but it's limited to 30 hrs per week. </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 673148,
          "author_name": "kevinehsani",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "11/14/2019 15:27:36",
          "content": "<p>Thank you very much Jack, this is what I call useful information and it would be a delight to get a negative mark from you. I have never hear about kaggle notebooks, I am very new to this. I take it, is a sight I sign into and I do not have to download the data any more. Learning is what is important to me. Thanks again.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 673155,
          "author_name": "jackvial",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "11/14/2019 15:38:22",
          "content": "<p>Welcome, if you look at the tab bar with overview, data, notebooks and click on notebooks you can create a Jupyter Notebook that runs on Kaggle's servers, the competition dataset will be available to you within this environment. </p>",
          "votes": null,
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    {
      "id": 673153,
      "author_name": "jackvial",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/14/2019 15:32:57",
      "content": "<p>Try not be discouraged by the downvotes or take it too personally. If your questions is something you could have easily googled or spent a few minutes clicking around and exploring the interface to figure out then probably not a great idea to ask it here.</p>\n\n<p>Also, mentioning mac is probably going to guarantee a few downvotes! 😛  I use a mac for my day job but there is not much love for macs on here, the price being a big factor and the lack of support for CUDA and Nvidia GPUs. </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 673196,
          "author_name": "kevinehsani",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "11/14/2019 16:46:32",
          "content": "<p>I bought mac thinking it would support the latest technologies and I was shocked when I wanted to use it for GPU, but I am stuck with it as I paid so much but never again. Thanks again</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 673249,
          "author_name": "marekwyborski",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "11/14/2019 18:05:35",
          "content": "<p>You need to throw more money at it and buy a thunderbolt-pcie-gpu-enclosure like razer core-x or similar then put in a decent pcie-nvidia-gpu and boot linux anyways for deeplearning frameworks.</p>",
          "votes": null,
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          "id": 673260,
          "author_name": "kevinehsani",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "11/14/2019 18:16:22",
          "content": "<p>What kind of money are we talking about? One big problem I have is that I travel a lot and relocate completely so it has to be transportable.</p>",
          "votes": null,
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      "id": 673307,
      "author_name": "doncalculator",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/14/2019 19:50:11",
      "content": "<p>You using a mac has nothing to do with the downvotes. I use a macbook everyday, I switched about a year ago because developing IOS apps on a hackintosh VM was a nightmare. For coding IMO it's the best notebook money can buy,\nbut for deep learning, it's only good to SSH into a workstation :)</p>\n\n<p>To answer your original question, the starter kernel creates 2D images from the data, you could create a dataset from that, and download it. Only about a few GB in size.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 673347,
          "author_name": "kevinehsani",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "11/14/2019 21:44:27",
          "content": "<p>Thanks for the info. So there is a kernel called starter that you run for that and you do not need to convert the 2D images on your computer to full size data? I have not come across that kernel.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
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        {
          "id": 673592,
          "author_name": "doncalculator",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "11/15/2019 07:45:05",
          "content": "<p>Sorry it's called reference model, here you go: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/gzuidhof/reference-model\">https://www.kaggle.com/gzuidhof/reference-model</a></p>",
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      "id": 673358,
      "author_name": "artyomp",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/14/2019 22:17:20",
      "content": "<p><code>84 GB of data is simply too much.</code>\nI just don't understand this. You bought a PC that doesn't have 100 GB HDD or SSD? For reference, I bought a 3 TB HDD in 2012 and I'm still using it. This year I bought a couple of 1 TB NVMe SSD disks, they really do help a lot when I'm dealing with Computer Vision challenges.</p>\n\n<p>And yes, you absolutely need a computer with GPU. It's typically a Linux PC, Ubuntu or something similar. Ideally, you need more than one GPU, 1 TB SSD and (32 Gb * number of GPUs) of memory.</p>",
      "votes": null,
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          "id": 673775,
          "author_name": "kevinehsani",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "11/15/2019 13:25:30",
          "content": "<p>I have a mac with 250 SSD for everything, unfortunately I travel a lot and impossible to have pc, but I am dying to buy one. For now I have to be content on running code on clouds and other people servers</p>",
          "votes": null,
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    "672156": "I was going to do this competition but 84 GB of data is simply too much. Is there a way around it or a similar kaggle with much, much lower data requirement? Thanks",
    "672475": "and sadly they use zip file instead of tar :( with tar file, you can decompress stream during download and filter files if you want",
    "673062": "for those that give negative points can they tell something intelligent and useful like you can run the data on their server, Please stop being in love with yourselves.",
    "673069": "Is it possible to run it on kaggle server? you know what are these negative points for?",
    "673138": "For this kind of competition you really need to have a dedicated Deep Learning PC. A typical setup is Ubuntu, multicore cpu, SSD drive, lots of ram 32gb+ preferably, and a GPU like a GTX 1080ti, RTX 2070 etc...\n\nUsing Kaggle notebooks is also a great option and they have GPU access but it's limited to 30 hrs per week.",
    "673148": "Thank you very much Jack, this is what I call useful information and it would be a delight to get a negative mark from you. I have never hear about kaggle notebooks, I am very new to this. I take it, is a sight I sign into and I do not have to download the data any more. Learning is what is important to me. Thanks again.",
    "673153": "Try not be discouraged by the downvotes or take it too personally. If your questions is something you could have easily googled or spent a few minutes clicking around and exploring the interface to figure out then probably not a great idea to ask it here.\n\nAlso, mentioning mac is probably going to guarantee a few downvotes! 😛  I use a mac for my day job but there is not much love for macs on here, the price being a big factor and the lack of support for CUDA and Nvidia GPUs.",
    "673155": "Welcome, if you look at the tab bar with overview, data, notebooks and click on notebooks you can create a Jupyter Notebook that runs on Kaggle's servers, the competition dataset will be available to you within this environment.",
    "673196": "I bought mac thinking it would support the latest technologies and I was shocked when I wanted to use it for GPU, but I am stuck with it as I paid so much but never again. Thanks again",
    "673249": "You need to throw more money at it and buy a thunderbolt-pcie-gpu-enclosure like razer core-x or similar then put in a decent pcie-nvidia-gpu and boot linux anyways for deeplearning frameworks.",
    "673260": "What kind of money are we talking about? One big problem I have is that I travel a lot and relocate completely so it has to be transportable.",
    "673307": "You using a mac has nothing to do with the downvotes. I use a macbook everyday, I switched about a year ago because developing IOS apps on a hackintosh VM was a nightmare. For coding IMO it's the best notebook money can buy,\nbut for deep learning, it's only good to SSH into a workstation :)\n\nTo answer your original question, the starter kernel creates 2D images from the data, you could create a dataset from that, and download it. Only about a few GB in size.",
    "673347": "Thanks for the info. So there is a kernel called starter that you run for that and you do not need to convert the 2D images on your computer to full size data? I have not come across that kernel.",
    "673358": "`84 GB of data is simply too much.`\nI just don't understand this. You bought a PC that doesn't have 100 GB HDD or SSD? For reference, I bought a 3 TB HDD in 2012 and I'm still using it. This year I bought a couple of 1 TB NVMe SSD disks, they really do help a lot when I'm dealing with Computer Vision challenges.\n\nAnd yes, you absolutely need a computer with GPU. It's typically a Linux PC, Ubuntu or something similar. Ideally, you need more than one GPU, 1 TB SSD and (32 Gb * number of GPUs) of memory.",
    "673592": "Sorry it's called reference model, here you go: https://www.kaggle.com/gzuidhof/reference-model",
    "673775": "I have a mac with 250 SSD for everything, unfortunately I travel a lot and impossible to have pc, but I am dying to buy one. For now I have to be content on running code on clouds and other people servers"
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