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 tensorboard --logdir /some/path     
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-## Lightning automatically automates all of the following ([each is also configurable](https://williamfalcon.github.io/pytorch-lightning/Trainer/)):
+## Lightning automates all of the following ([each is also configurable](https://williamfalcon.github.io/pytorch-lightning/Trainer/)):
 
 ###### Checkpointing