stable-diffusion-paperspace/Docs/Paperspace Guide for Retards.md

### Getting Started on Paperspace for Retards <3

![paperspace](Assets/paperspace.png)

**What is Paperspace?**

Basically, a cloud compute service for AI development. You run your code on their hardware.




**Why Paperspace?**

Paperspace makes it easy to run resource-intensive, long-running AI calculations. Paperspace is convenient, free, and you probably don't have a computer good enough to run the AI. 

You'll run your code on their powerful GPUs which is much faster and easier than locally on your computer.



**Do I have to pay?**

Only if you feel limited by their free tier. You should have everything you need to generate ~~porn~~ really neat images.



**Why not Google Colab?**

Google Colab is an alternative, but their free tier is more restrictive than Paperspace's and has less powerful hardware.

**But I want to run it on Google Colab!**

Ok fine. [Here's the official notebook by Voldy himself.](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Iy-xW9t1-OQWhb0hNxueGij8phCyluOh)



## Let's do it!



1. [Create an Account](https://console.paperspace.com/signup)

In an effort to help the new people get started, here's a promo code to get $10 account credit. `KQLRH37` Use this link to quickly sign up:
[https://console.paperspace.com/signup?R=KQLRH37](https://console.paperspace.com/signup?R=KQLRH37)

3. Click this button and fill out the form that pops up

![create_project](Assets/create_project.png)

3. Click this button to create a notebook

![create_notebook](Assets/create_notebook.png)

4. Under "Runtime" select "Start from Stratch"

![start_scratch.png](Assets/start_scratch.png)

5. Download [StableDiffusionUI_Voldemort_paperspace.ipynb](https://github.com/Engineer-of-Stuff/stable-diffusion-paperspace/blob/main/StableDiffusionUI_Voldemort_paperspace.ipynb)
6. Upload that file to your notebook

![upload](Assets/upload.png)

7. Follow directions

![final](Assets/final.png)