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Hmm, this article took a quick turn into a story about how it takes just one year of coding experience + something from fast.ai to become "world-class deep lear
by sk5t 9y ago
Hmm, this article took a quick turn into a story about how it takes just one year of coding experience + something from fast.ai to become "world-class deep learning practitioners"; make of that what you will.
- paulgb 9y agoI don't see anything that mentions just a year of coding experience, but as a participant in their free MOOC I can say that it's highly worthwhile. It's unique and complimentary to the more academic material usually found on deep learning.
- karthikb 9y agoFrom the article... "And even for highly technical aspects like deep learning, fast.ai has shown that people with 1-year of coding experience can become world-class deep learning practitioners; you don’t need to hire Stanford PhDs. "
- paulgb 9y agoThanks, I somehow missed that.
- Alex3917 9y agoWhy would you need more than a year of coding experience to learn deep learning? Isn't it mostly math? I wouldn't think that mastering advanced Python syntax or whatever would be the limiting factor for most people.
- tinymollusk 9y agoI was in their recent course. No previous AI experience, although I've been coding for 20 years. Using what I learned in the class, I am regularly able to finish in the top 20% on most Kaggle competitions. Just being able to solve some of those problems allows me to provide employers with major value.
- FLUX-YOU 9y agoI don't know how that could mean anything other than becoming familiar with a deep learning library/platform product and implementing feature requests with it. In that case, I can readily see that. Especially if they have good teachers and teach the concepts thoroughly.
- pault 9y agoI don't think that's too outrageous as long as we don't read "practitioners" and hear "experts". Agree that the article is a thinly disguised recruiting advertisment though.
- taneq 9y agoDo you not think "world class" implies significant expertise?