Add extra RAM to google colab

Source
https://towardsdatascience.com/upgrade-your-memory-on-google-colab-for-free-1b8b18e8791d


Simply run this code in the first cell of a working notebook

a = []

while(1):

    a.append('1')

Create an Anaconda environment with default packages

Problem: Whenever a new environment is created in anaconda, the important packages do not come preinstalled as in the base environment

There are 2 solutions:

1. Create an environment with the following command

conda create -n spy4 anaconda


2. Clone the base environment

conda create --name spy4 --clone base