update_vectordash.md

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To return to your notebook, the basic steps will be:

1. Start your instance
2. Update the course repo
3. Update the fastai library
4. When done, shut down your instance

Start your instance

1. vectordash ssh $INSTANCE_ID

Update the course repo

To update the course repo, launch a new terminal from the jupyter notebook menu.

This will open a new window, in which you should run those two instructions:

cd /course-v3
git pull

This should give you the latest of the course notebooks. If you modified some of the notebooks in course-v3/nbs directly, GitHub will probably throw you an error. You should type git stash to remove your local changes. Remember you should always work on a copy of the lesson notebooks.

Update the fastai library

To update the fastai library, open the terminal like before and type

conda upgrade fastai

Stop your instance

You will be charged if you don't stop the instance while it's 'idle' (e.g. not training a network). To stop an instance on Vectordash, go to the dashboard and click the instance you would like to stop. Once on the instance page, click 'Stop Instance'. Please note, stopping an instance destroys it completely so make sure you save your files locally or in a remote storage location.