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My Weird Prompts · October 22 · 20 min

Where Should Your Notebook Actually Run?

Colab is the default for every fine-tuning tutorial, but free has fine print: fluctuating GPUs, 12-hour runtime caps, and idle timeouts. This episode walks through five real options — Colab, Kaggle, local Jupyter, marimo, and pay-per-use GPU notebooks like Modal and Lightning — with honest tradeoffs for each. Then it tackles the question everyone almost doesn't ask: when you share a notebook so others can reproduce your result, what exactly are you publishing? Notebook files save their outputs, and research on leaked secrets found .ipynb files to be the most leak-prone file type in public code — led by Hugging Face tokens. Learn why the code cells aren't where the secrets hide, and how to check a notebook before it goes public. Episode 6205 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6205 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/063395)

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Colab is the default for every fine-tuning tutorial, but free has fine print: fluctuating GPUs, 12-hour runtime caps, and idle timeouts. This episode walks through five real options — Colab, Kaggle, local Jupyter, marimo, and pay-per-use GPU notebooks like Modal and Lightning — with honest tradeoffs for each. Then it tackles the question everyone almost doesn't ask: when you share a notebook so others can reproduce your result, what exactly are you publishing? Notebook files save their outputs, and research on leaked secrets found .ipynb files to be the most leak-prone file type in public code — led by Hugging Face tokens. Learn why the code cells aren't where the secrets hide, and how to check a notebook before it goes public.

Episode 6205 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6205 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/063395)

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