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Fastai has a course: practical deep learning for programmers.
by wesleywt 5y ago
Fastai has a course: practical deep learning for programmers.
- carom 5y agoThere are also coursera specializations from Andrew Ng at https://deeplearning.ai https://deeplearning.ai.
- matsemann 5y agoNg's course is bottom up: Start with the basic math, expand upon it, until you arrive at ML and neural nets. Fastai is top down: learn to use practical ML with abstractions, and then dig deeper and explain as needed. I preferred fastai's approach, even though I enjoyed both. Ng's could be a bit too low level and fundamental for what I wanted to learn.
- carom 5y agoThis is a valuable take. Fastai was very frustrating for me because I wanted to understand the internals. I ended up not finishing it, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
- windsignaling 5y agoI much prefer Andrew Ng's courses as well. I tried Fast AI, but it seems to be trying too hard to take out the math, which oddly for me (as a STEM grad) makes it much more difficult to understand. Had to stop when I saw him using Excel spreadsheets to explain convolution.
- knicholes 5y agoThe Excel spreadsheets is where it all clicked for me. It's not done with some magical library but with simple math being performed on some weights.