Machine Learning Demystified

A weekly workshop series at NYU ITP to teach machine learning with a focus on deep learning

Week1

Setup Environment

1) Install miniconda

• Go to https://conda.io/miniconda.html
• Choose Python 3.6 Mac OSX 64-bit (bash installer) and download

2) Open Terminal

• Type: bash /path/to/the/file/you/just/downloaded
• You can just drag the bash file you download into your terminal window from where you installed it   - Press Enter to continue
• Review the license and approve the license terms - type in yes and press enter
• Press Enter again to confirm the location of install
• Type yes when it asks you if the install location should be prepended to PATH
• Restart Terminal for changes to take effect
• Type: conda info
• If it prints out some stuff then it has installed correctly

3) Create an environment

• Open Terminal
• Type: conda create -n tensor python=3.5.2
• Type: y (and press Enter)
• This will create a conda environment with the name 'tensor' and python version 3.5.2

4) Activate environment

• Open Terminal
• Type: source activate tensor
• You should see (tensor) prepended before your terminal prompt

5) Install dependencies

• Make sure you can see (tensor) prepended before the terminal prompt before proceeding
• Type: conda install numpy matplotlib jupyter
• Type: y (and press Enter)
• Type: pip install nltk gensim keras gym

6) Install Tensor Flow

• In the same terminal window type: pip install tensorflow
• If the above command gives an error (it shows up in red color in your terminal only then do the following):
  • Type: pip install https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/mac/cpu/tensorflow-1.0.0-py3-none-any.whl