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by jph00 6y ago
Wow that's wild. Is that because they add the 30% fee or something? The Kindle version is $35
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by jph00 6y ago
@dang or someone - I wonder if you can fix the title so it's not just "Fast.ai releases new deep learning course"? The article is just as much about the release of the fastai v2 software library as it as about the course. The
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by jph00 6y ago
In the new course and book by the end we show you how to build everything from scratch - including implementing gradients, creating a data processing library, writing all the equations out for loss and activation functions, building a resne
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by jph00 6y ago
Yes - the lesson on tabular analysis focuses on decision tree ensembles, since that's what most people use (although we also use deep learning for it - and we ended up getting a more accurate model that way). We discuss the pros and co
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by jph00 6y ago
Honestly we don't get much of a cut, so don't worry about it too much either way. Although it's nice to support O'Reilly, since they were kind enough to let us make it all available for free. Frankly though, there are mu
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by jph00 6y ago
Yeah that makes a lot of sense. It's why we took a year off from teaching to try to make the definitive version of the deep learning framework we really wanted - and even wrote a peer-reviewed academic paper about the design we came up
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by jph00 6y ago
I should mention - the `fastbook` repo is not just a draft - it's the full book in basically the final version (except it's in Jupyter Notebook format).
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by jph00 6y ago
That's all fixed for this year's courses. (This is the first of this year's courses to be released.)
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by jph00 6y ago
You can see the syllabus: http://ethics.fast.ai/syllabus/ . There's a free book chapter that covers a subset of the material, so you might that a more focused approach if that's what you're looking for:
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by jph00 6y ago
...and this is the syllabus: http://ethics.fast.ai/syllabus/
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by jph00 6y ago
> expecting people to quit their jobs (and ability to provide for their partner and children) because of an ethics video series seems like a hollow solution Why are you making straw man arguments? The person you're replying to did
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by jph00 6y ago
Arvind Narayanan, who did that video, is amazing. It's astonishing how he's achieved such expertise in computer science, machine learning, cryptocurrency, and technology policy. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvind
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by jph00 6y ago
They said slashdot, not HN.
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by jph00 6y ago
I've been surprised at how well our 4 y.o daughter has adjusted to the online world, on the whole. Whilst not all of our friends' children have the same experience, I've noticed it's fairly common for children we know (a
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by jph00 6y ago
I believe he's talking about the thread when W Richard Stevens died.
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by jph00 6y ago
I wrote that! I'm glad you like it. :) It's been nearly 20 years since I added that feature. I assumed at the time everyone would do it when they saw how handy it is. For some reason that didn't happen...
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by jph00 6y ago
Osterholm's claims are not supported by the evidence. He claims to respect aerosol scientists, but doesn't have any on his team and none have been involved in his team's work on this issue. He claims that people that are expe
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by jph00 6y ago
Thanks for sharing that article - I wrote it months ago, and there's been plenty more papers that have come out since, but there's really not much I'd change in it today. The science has only become more clear. I think the 53
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by jph00 6y ago
The OP link should probably be changed to: http://tttthis.com/blog/if-i-could-bring-one-thing-back-to-t... Currently it's linking to the "edit" page.
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by jph00 6y ago
I wrote that - thanks for sharing! :) And also wrote this one with Professor Trish Greenhalgh CBE: https://www.fast.ai/2020/04/13/masks-summary/ . Our work on this is getting some attention now in the gl
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by jph00 7y ago
Covid-19 is not an aerosol, except in certain hospital settings.
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by jph00 7y ago
The SK death rate of 0.7% assumes that all 98% of the cases with outcome currently classified as "unknown" will recover. That isn't rational! You need to do proper survival analysis to account for the growth in cases. Here&#x
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by jph00 7y ago
98% of cases in S Korea are classified as "no outcome" at this stage - that is, it's too early to make a call. It takes 11 days on average for the disease to get really severe, so we won't see the deaths for a while. Wit
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by jph00 7y ago
Many thanks - this is really helpful.
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by jph00 7y ago
Actually someone already did a PR for it!
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by jph00 7y ago
Thank you for mentioning Rachel! :) She is working as the Founding Director of the Center for Applied Data Ethics nowadays, which is a very full-time job. So she hasn't been involved much in fastai v2 or the book (other than chapter 3,
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by jph00 7y ago
July.
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by jph00 7y ago
Both the primary authors are Polish, and they won the competition, so I don't really have any informed view to add... Maybe best to mention Turkish in the book!
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by jph00 7y ago
It's all new material. It'll be the basis of the next course coming in July. Or you can join the in person course from March in SF https://www.usfca.edu/data-institute/certificates/deep-learn...
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by jph00 7y ago
Once the book is released there will be a whole website and prebuilt environments and lots more to get started quickly. We didn't expect the draft to get this much attention, frankly!

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