Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch
Jeremy Howard and Sylvain Gugger
3 people recommended it in 3 threads, 2021–2022.
What people on Hacker News said
If you ever were curious about deep learning but did not find the time to take a look or thought it was unapproachable: now is a great time to dive in and this is a great course (& book & library & community) to do so
Well said and this is exactly what I loved about the course and the way Jeremy peeled things back. If you're a 'learn-by-tinkering' person, and I suspect a lot of HN folks are, I can't recommend it enough.
This is the reason why I recommend this course to my friends and colleagues who ask me about how to get into AI/ML. I tell them to do this course first to get idea about what all is possible.
So today's fastai library really doesn't have the issues that we had a year or two back - it's a really carefully designed piece of software.
The fastai video course was, with a big gap, the best, most understandable, most practical and most enjoyable of them.
I must say I find it so much nicer to learn using the print copy book! It forces me to type out (rather than copy and paste) the code, and I like being able to scribble all over the book.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work/study? 2022 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: The book that did it for you in math and/or CS? 2022 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: Technical Summer Reading List 2021 · 1 recommendation