Model Hanging on the Fit Method

Hey Team,

I need your help working through my model hanging on the .fit() method. Both my code and the code from the provided notebook, TensorFlow MNIST Part 6 with Comments, are hanging. I'm at 10 minutes on the .fit() method without moving past the first epoch. Again, this happens with the code provided in the course notebook listed above, so I did not type anything incorrectly.

thanks for your help and I'd really appreciate an answer on this one as I'm not convinced AI is going to help me solve this one. Thanks!

Python version: 3.11.13
tensorflow version: 2.19.1

Jupyter Version Info:
IPython          : 9.5.0
ipykernel        : 6.30.1
ipywidgets       : not installed
jupyter_client   : 8.6.3
jupyter_core     : 5.8.1
jupyter_server   : 2.16.0
jupyterlab       : 4.4.7
nbclient         : 0.10.2
nbconvert        : 7.16.6
nbformat         : 5.10.4
notebook         : 7.4.5
qtconsole        : not installed
traitlets        : 5.14.3