Re:Fast.ai releases new deep learning course, libraries, and...
by aaronAgain on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:24PM
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That is a very humbling response. I will be donating to Fred Hollow Foundation. Thanks for the fastai work.
Edit: Donated. And reported a bug in their donation process that almost preventing me from being successful.
Re:Fast.ai releases new deep learning course, libraries, and...
by paultopia on Friday August 21, 2020 @09:38PM
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Thank you! This is such a great service to the community, really, all of it.
While you're here---do you have advice on the course vs the book? I'm a person who really prefers to learn via writing rather than via video, but if there's stuff in the course that people who use the book can't really experience...
Re:Fast.ai releases new deep learning course, libraries, and...
by jph00 on Friday August 21, 2020 @10:51PM
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Use both. The book will encourage you to work through the notebooks. You can watch the first video and see if it adds anything for you - if it doesn't, skip the rest.
They cover basically the same material. (Except that the course covers only half the book - the rest is planned for a part 2 course later.)
Frankly though, there are much more important areas right now that could really use some extra money, so I'd rather see folks donate to a good cause, if they don't actually need the paper or kindle book... :)
I've been giving my teaching stipend from university to the Fred Hollow Foundation: https://www.hollows.org/ . They can give sight back to many people that are blind, for around US$25.