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Re:Neural Networks from Scratch by matsemann on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:11PM (#28830548)
Ng'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.

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Re:Neural Networks from Scratch by carom on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:34PM (#28830782)
This 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.
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