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Am I allowed to have a contrarian opinion :) I went through the first version of FastAI (when it was Keras, torch?/tensorflow?) and forgot most of it because n
by apohn 5y ago
Am I allowed to have a contrarian opinion :)
I went through the first version of FastAI (when it was Keras, torch?/tensorflow?) and forgot most of it because never did anything with Deep Learning. Then I did the FastAI V1 course again where they use FastAI library V2.
I really liked the first version of the course because I felt like Jeremy did an awesome job of balancing understanding the guts of using a DL library with getting stuff done. It was a tough course, but I felt like I really understood things.
I felt like the version with FastAI library V2 went too far into "Here are some commands you can use in the FastAI V2 library to to do this sexy thing with Deep Learning." I completed that course and really felt it should have been titled "A Course on the Fast AI V2 Library"
I recently purchased "Deep Learning with PyTorch" by Eli Stevens. I've been working through this book and feel like it explains things a lot more. I'm haven't finished the book with it, but I do like it so far.
- carom 5y agoI felt similarly about the fastai course. I'm doing the deeplearning.ai course (Andrew Ng) and I really like it. Warning though, it is bottom up, so you start by implementing neural nets with numpy to understand the internals, then it gets into TensorFlow. Just another resource if people are looking to learn deep learning and not pytorch in particular.