Regarding the Kaggle competitions, I also agree with that you need access to powerful hardware. Some competitions have very big datasets that require you to hav

Regarding the Kaggle competitions, I also agree with that you need access to powerful hardware. Some competitions have very big datasets that require you to have TBs available to download and uncompress the files. Also, having your own GPU will allow you to iterate faster. I tried a competition with just a Colab instance and I felt kinda handicapped, unfortunately.