[HN Gopher] Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022
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       Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2022
        
       Author : tmabraham
       Score  : 352 points
       Date   : 2022-07-21 23:41 UTC (23 hours ago)
        
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       | perfopt wrote:
       | This is awesome. One question I have always had - is the research
       | on applying DL for images the most developed compared to other
       | things?
       | 
       | Even DL used for audio processing (classification, separation
       | etc) seems to convert audio to spectral graphs and apply DL to
       | that.
       | 
       | Changing a problem to be expressed as image inputs will be an
       | advantage when using DL as a solution. Would you agree ?
        
         | nmfisher wrote:
         | Working with a spectrogram is definitely similar to working
         | with an image, and it's interesting to think why that's the
         | case.
         | 
         | Take convolutional models, for example. Very effective for
         | working with images because they're (a) parameter efficient,
         | (b) learn local/spatial correlations in input features, and (c)
         | exploit translational invariance. As an oversimplification, we
         | can train models to visually identify "things" in images by
         | their edges.
         | 
         | If you think about what's going on with an audio spectrogram,
         | you can see the same concepts at work. There's local/spatial
         | correlation - certain sounds tend to have similar power
         | coefficients in similar frequency buckets. These are also
         | correlated in time (because the pitch envelope of the word
         | "yes" tends to have the same shape), and convolutional models
         | can also exploit time-invariance (in the sense that
         | convolutional models can learn the word "yes" from samples
         | where the word appears with varying amounts of silence to the
         | left and right).
         | 
         | That being said, the addition of the time domain makes audio
         | quite hard to work with, and (usually) not as simple as just
         | running a spectrogram through a vanilla image classification
         | model. But it's definitely enlightening to think about how
         | these models are "learning".
        
         | tmabraham wrote:
         | Good question!
         | 
         | I think a major reason for this is because of transfer
         | learning. For computer vision, there are many good pretrained
         | models that were trained on huge datasets (like ImageNet) that
         | can be fine-tuned for custom tasks. Other fields often do not
         | have such pretrained models and huge datasets to work on, so it
         | turns out transforming a dataset into an image dataset and
         | fine-tuning a pretrained model works better than training from
         | scratch.
        
         | perfopt wrote:
         | Oops dumb question. Watched the first video and got my answer.
        
       | publicdaniel wrote:
       | I am so grateful the FastAI team exists. It wasn't until I
       | discovered their "Machine Learning for Coders" course that I
       | really started to grok ML. I was in grad school trying to pivot
       | my career from finance to data science. I didn't come from a
       | computer science / math background and things just weren't
       | clicking for me. I remember feeling angry, embarrassed, dumb, and
       | overall that I wasn't smart enough to learn this stuff -- I was
       | incredibly discouraged and felt that I didn't belong there. I was
       | lucky enough to stumble across one of the course videos on
       | YouTube (thanks recommendation algorithm!), and the rest is
       | history.
       | 
       | The amazing thing about these courses is how simple Jeremy (and
       | team) are able to make machine learning. I didn't need to
       | understand python dependency management in order to learn how to
       | train an really good image classifier. Their approach helped me
       | have lots of little wins, gave me confidence, and helped build
       | the motivation to slog through the harder stuff when I needed to.
       | 
       | From the bottom of my heart, thank you @jph00. You changed my
       | life immeasurably for the better. I learned that I AM good
       | enough, I AM smart enough, and I CAN do hard things... I just had
       | to find the right way to learn them. Your courses completely
       | changed my perspective on what was possible for me and opened the
       | door to some of my life's greatest passions.
        
         | wittycardio wrote:
        
           | BeetleB wrote:
           | Lots of people who've taken the Fast.ai course have similar
           | things to say. It's commonly said it's the fastest way to get
           | into DL.
        
             | hello34 wrote:
             | Yeah just wanted to say, I am also one of the persons who
             | has immensely benefited. So it may sound like paid, yet lot
             | of people have immensely benefited like people from India,
             | Nigeria, etc..
             | 
             | Check this article[1] to know a bit about philosophy of
             | fast.ai and why it's so popular
             | 
             | [1] https://future.com/the-rise-of-domain-experts-in-deep-
             | learni...
        
       | jackallis wrote:
       | what is/will be the state of deep learning in 2022 or next 3-5
       | years? you hear/read so many news/articles in HN about decline of
       | DL. Is that so?
        
         | kache_ wrote:
         | That's like saying "watch the decline of C++" while using
         | javascript What does javascript run on?
         | 
         | Most ML advancements will use DL at the core in interesting
         | ways.
        
         | davidatbu wrote:
         | I mean, just looking at OpenAI and Deepmind, they have
         | relatively recently released break-through models for which
         | building upon and extending can be done in relatively
         | straightforward ways (DALLE 2, GPT-3, AlphaFold, OpenAI Codex,
         | ...etc), so I don't think DL will "decline" any time soon ...
        
       | ramesh31 wrote:
       | You guys really are the best. Thanks for all the hard work.
        
       | ben-coman wrote:
       | Watching from afar the great advances in machine learning over
       | the past few years with AlphaZero, GPT3, DALLE2 I felt it
       | important for me to start understanding what is going on under
       | the hood. Having just completed the private pre-release of the
       | course run through USQ, as my first foray into machine learning
       | this was a great introduction that had me quickly produce a
       | working image classification system. The videos are packed really
       | with insightful rid-bits about practical approaches to iterating
       | quickly to understand the data better to produce better results.
       | Very much recommend the course.
        
       | suhail wrote:
       | I re-did the course with this 2022 version. Highly recommend it
       | :)
        
       | alexcnwy wrote:
       | The first Fast.ai course back in around 2016 changed my life.
       | 
       | I was studying a masters in statistics and computer science that
       | had 1 neural networks lecture and nobody knew anything about deep
       | learning. Fast.ai and Jeremy's teaching style helped me start
       | playing with deep learning models really quickly and I changed my
       | thesis topic to computer vision.
       | 
       | I ended up consulting on the topic and doing various startups
       | leading to the startup I'm working on now which just finished YC
       | (AiSupervision W22).
       | 
       | I doubt be here without fast.ai. I highly recommend and
       | appreciate all the work that Jeremy and the rest of fast.ai do!
        
       | idf00 wrote:
       | Fantastic course - Fastai courses are a must for anyone looking
       | to learn Deep Learning/ML.
        
       | jph00 wrote:
       | Hi folks - I'm the creator/teacher of this course. I'd be happy
       | to answer any questions that you have about the course, learning
       | deep learning in general, or the state of deep learning in 2022.
        
         | sooheon wrote:
         | I remember you were bullish about Swift a few years ago. What's
         | your current view on non-python deep learning?
        
           | ngcc_hk wrote:
           | Interested that as well, especially the old school lisp to
           | this new Ai.
        
           | jph00 wrote:
           | I'm disappointed that Google shut down the Swift for
           | Tensorflow project, because I do think Swift is a great
           | option for deep learning.
           | 
           | In some ways Jax is almost "non-python deep learning" since
           | it's treating Python more like a DSL for the XLA backend.
           | Normal Python code doesn't work in Jax. It's a pretty
           | reasonable compromise since you still get all the benefits of
           | the Python ecosystem.
           | 
           | Julia seems like it has the best foundations for deep
           | learning, since everything can be written directly in Julia.
           | But it doesn't have a great ecosystem as a general
           | programming tool.
           | 
           | F# might turn out to be a good option.
        
         | notpublic wrote:
         | First of all, a big thanks!
         | 
         | What is your take on the current state of autonomous driving?
         | Do you think we can achieve "full autonomy" with the technology
         | we have currently?
         | 
         | Any new advances in DL that you are excited about?
        
           | jph00 wrote:
           | Honestly I'm not an expert on autonomous driving so I'm not
           | sure I have great insights there. I do know quite a bit about
           | computer vision however so feel qualified to comment on that
           | bit -- I suspect the decision by Tesla to only use CV, and
           | not LIDAR, may turn out to be a mistake. I don't see any
           | reason why we couldn't achieve full autonomy with our current
           | tech including LIDAR, although I don't know if it can be
           | achieved at a practical latency and power budget.
           | 
           | The new advances in DL I'm excited about are things I show in
           | the class: the accessibility of modern NLP thanks to the
           | Hugging Face ecosystem; the power of ConvNeXt for even better
           | computer vision models; the way Gradio and HF Spaces makes it
           | trivially easy to get a working prototype application using
           | DL online.
           | 
           | I'm also excited about hosted models and applications like
           | GPT-3, DALL-E, and Codex. All the illustrations on our course
           | website are from DALL-E, for instance!
        
         | __rito__ wrote:
         | Jeremy, hi.
         | 
         | I have one question, and one only. Please answer:
         | 
         |  _Second part, when?_
        
         | fareesh wrote:
         | Hello Jeremy do you have any specific advice on tackling ASR
         | using fast.ai?
        
         | Oreb wrote:
         | Is there a new version of the book? All the links I find lead
         | to the 2020 edition.
        
           | jph00 wrote:
           | No, the book is continually updated for each reprint, but
           | there isn't a separate edition.
        
         | sriram_malhar wrote:
         | Thank you so much for this course. I plan to go through it
         | properly.
         | 
         | I have a search problem of my own and I have had a hard time
         | applying what I have learnt (including the coursera DL
         | specialization). The chief characteristics are: (a) It is a
         | fuzzy search of a corpus that is in a non-English language. (b)
         | The search should be able to run on a mobile phone _offline_.
         | 
         | Is this possible? Can training be done elsewhere and
         | transferred to TinyML or some such? What would be a good forum
         | to go seeking answers?
        
           | devnonymous wrote:
           | If the volume of data fits on a mobile phone for it to be
           | offline, perhaps you don't need deep learning?
        
           | leobg wrote:
           | Have you tried...
           | 
           | a) BM25 after some preprocessing (lemmatization etc.)
           | 
           | b) fastText / GloVe (possibly weighted by BM25)
           | 
           | The results can be surprisingly good. Often no need to bother
           | with big language models or GPUs.
        
         | cweill wrote:
         | Hey Jeremy, i just want to say that I love your course and the
         | way you teach. I refer everyone to the Fast AI in my YouTube
         | videos on getting started with machine learning. Please keep up
         | the great work!
        
         | nindalf wrote:
         | I tried the 2021 course but I didn't finish. I think the
         | biggest friction for me was using the remote machine. I wasn't
         | able to make steady progress like I do with my offline learning
         | projects.
         | 
         | How far away is the fast.ai from working on a Mac? PyTorch
         | recently gained support (https://pytorch.org/blog/introducing-
         | accelerated-pytorch-tra...) but that's only the start. Is this
         | something that is being worked on?
        
           | jph00 wrote:
           | The good news is that every lesson in this course is actually
           | run on Kaggle Notebooks, which is a free cloud environments
           | including GPUs. So you don't need to set up anything and it
           | runs on any computer with a modern web browser!
           | 
           | Mac support for all the libs used in the course will probably
           | continue to improve in the coming months and there should be
           | no reason you won't be able to run the stuff for the course
           | locally on a Mac at that time. Having said that, even the M2
           | trains deep learning models much slower than even the free
           | NVIDIA GPUs provided by Kaggle. So you'd only want to use
           | local development for the smallest and simplest models. (The
           | course shows how to train models that are fairly cutting edge
           | and some take a while to train even on modern GPUs, so they
           | wouldn't be a good fit for a Mac.)
        
             | nindalf wrote:
             | Thanks Jeremy, I'll give it another go.
        
         | mkl wrote:
         | How many hours do you think this course would take for an
         | experienced developer with plenty of applied maths but ~no
         | machine learning?
         | 
         | How easy is it to do the course on my own hardware rather than
         | cloud notebooks? Would that make it closer to practical
         | deployment?
        
           | gandalfgreybeer wrote:
           | Not him nor will I talk about his course, but I've been in
           | the field a reasonable amount of time (both on the academia
           | and industry side). Honestly, applied maths will get you a
           | long way and make it easier to digest the concepts (you might
           | just see them as repackaged problems depending on your
           | mileage). If you have good programming skills and discipline
           | you practically have most of what you need.
           | 
           | Re the course, I just skimmed it and I think you can do most
           | things on your own hardware but if you will actually use this
           | for something practical (not just for you or a side project),
           | being familiar with cloud tools is a big thing especially
           | once you scale.
        
             | qwrshr wrote:
             | out of curiosity, how much applied math should one bone up
             | on? (Obviously the more the better, but diminishing
             | marginal returns and all that.)
        
               | cinntaile wrote:
               | None, just look things up as you go along if there is
               | something you don't understand. You're likely not going
               | to bother understanding how the optimization functions
               | work or how the cost functions actually work anyway.
               | They're implementation details in most cases.
        
           | jph00 wrote:
           | I'd suggesting budgeting about 80 hours for the course given
           | that background. That should get you to a place where you can
           | work on practical projects that are reasonably well within
           | standard applications of deep learning.
           | 
           | Most practical deployment is done to cloud environments
           | rather than local notebooks. The deployment exercise we do in
           | the course is designed to show the key components you'll need
           | for deploying simple models in practice.
        
         | sabertoothed wrote:
         | I hope you stay as humble as you have been. But you're my
         | personal hero. It is just incredible what you have done for the
         | world.
        
         | thefreeman wrote:
         | As someone who much prefers reading over watching videos, do
         | you think I would miss much by just going through the book in
         | the github repo? Or are those notebooks mainly supplemental to
         | the videos.
        
           | jph00 wrote:
           | I'd say it's the other way around - the videos are kinda
           | supplemental to the book. The book has a lot more content,
           | but doesn't have the interactive explanations in the course.
           | Also the book is a couple of years old so is missing the more
           | recent developments (but the principles haven't changed).
        
         | knicholes wrote:
         | Thank you, so much, for enabling us mortals the power of
         | ethical, modern AI. Your work, and the work of your colleagues,
         | has brought so much good to this world.
         | 
         | It wasn't until the last few years I saw people start freezing
         | the model and just fine tuning the last layers. I've watched
         | presenters from flamingo and imagen talk about their similar
         | approaches. I heard it here first, at fastai.
        
           | jph00 wrote:
           | Haha yes - it's been wonderful to see how (eventually) the
           | deep learning world has taken to transfer learning!
        
             | iTokio wrote:
             | What's your take on meta learning?
        
         | darepublic wrote:
         | Thanks for creating this fantastic content, I'm excited to give
         | the 2022 course a look. It's an exciting time for AI. I'm
         | curious about your thoughts on gpt3 and also the state of the
         | art in computer vision, and object detection. All the best
        
         | perfopt wrote:
         | Thank you for creating this course. I started out on Tensor
         | Flow but seeing this material I am in two minds whether I
         | should abandon my TF book and start this one or save it for
         | later. Most likely I am going to dive in :-)
        
           | jph00 wrote:
           | Both the Aurelien Geron and Francois Chollet TF books are
           | absolutely terrific, and everything you learn from them will
           | be extremely useful in becoming a deep learning practitioner,
           | regardless of what framework you end up using. So if you've
           | started with one of those books already, keep it up! :) The
           | fast.ai course would actually be a pretty good addition to
           | either book, since you'll get to see a whole different way of
           | doing things, which might be useful to understanding what's
           | going on.
        
             | perfopt wrote:
             | Thank you
        
           | rg111 wrote:
           | My suggestion would be to learn all the stuff from this
           | course, using fast.ai library, and then gradually move
           | towards PyTorch.
           | 
           | fast.ai is a fantastic educational resource and a great way
           | to approach solving problems. But the library itself is
           | lacking, and if you are an experienced programmer, when
           | building real-life projects, you will be frustrated with
           | fast.ai library.
           | 
           | The goal, IMO, should be learn from Jeremy Howard, s great
           | instructor, communicator; learn his attitude, and then move
           | to PyTorch (keeping the attitude, the knowledge, and the
           | lessons with you.)
        
             | mloncode wrote:
             | I am an experienced ML Engineer of 10 years and have worked
             | at several large flagship tech companies. I do not agree
             | that fastai is not appropriate for real-life projects. If
             | you know the fastai library well, you know its a layered
             | api on top of pytorch, which allows you to customize things
             | to your needs quite easily. For example, it is fairly
             | straightforward to get any pytorch model out of a Learner
             | object. Furthermore, lots of care has been taken to keep
             | the apis very consistent with pytorch as well.
             | 
             | It's also the only library I know of that consistently
             | bakes in best practices like super convergence techniques
             | or making things like test time augmentation very seamless.
             | Many libraries lag behind fastai 1-2 years in this regards,
             | and frankly it can be frustrating to use other frameworks
             | sometimes.
             | 
             | There is a slight learning curve, for example to learn the
             | DataBlocks API or the callback system, but once you really
             | understand what is happening you will understand how nice
             | the API is and how well engineered it is.
             | 
             | Side note: Regarding being an experienced software
             | engineer, I highly recommend digging into how the python
             | language was extended for this project (fastcore) and the
             | development workflow used (nbdev), which I think could be
             | interesting for those software engineers you mention as
             | well as heighten your understanding of the ecosystem of
             | tools.
        
       | perfopt wrote:
       | Can one do these lessons in any order? For example, do CNN first
       | then jump back to NLP. Or skip the implementation from scratch
       | because I have done a similar one in another course.
        
         | jph00 wrote:
         | They're designed to be done in order, but yup if you know how
         | SGD works, for instance, you could certainly skip over that
         | bit. The videos all have youtube timestamps, so if you drag the
         | scrollbar you'll see what each section is about.
         | 
         | Or you could do those bits at 2x speed in case there's some
         | concepts there you haven't seen before.
         | 
         | The NLP lesson could possibly work reasonably well standalone
         | if you already know some DL basics, since it uses a different
         | framework (Hugging Face) to the earlier lessons.
         | 
         | The CNN lesson would probably largely make sense if you already
         | understand multi-layer perceptrons, since it mainly shows how a
         | convolution is just a special case of sparse matrix
         | multiplication.
        
       | __rito__ wrote:
       | I haven't seen this course content yet, but fully did the 2019
       | version.
       | 
       | Extremely grateful to have found it. Changed the course of my
       | life.
       | 
       | I can vouch for it's quality.
       | 
       | Jeremy is an excellent instructor. So much clarity in his
       | teaching!
       | 
       | I love that this is a hands-on course, and there are ZERO hand-
       | wavings. I also really like the top-down approach of teaching.
       | Now, whenever I try to communicate something or teach someone, I
       | try to do it top-down. And I have Jeremy to thank for that.
       | 
       | Currently, I am attending his APL study group and having a blast!
       | 
       | Only question for @jph00 is: _second part, when?_
        
       | rg111 wrote:
       | There are too many poor design decisions in the fast.ai library.
       | 
       | One should invest too much time just for the sake of learning the
       | library's weird API, and then using it.
       | 
       | Doing something custom is too difficult, in contrast to Jax,
       | PyTorch, and even (poor library) TensorFlow.
       | 
       | The coding practices are whimsical. The codebase wouldn't pass
       | code review in any respectable company.
       | 
       | Variable namings are weird and super-problematic.
       | 
       | I fully stick to what I said. Learn techniques, best practices,
       | and, most importantly, Howard's attitude. Then take them with you
       | and move onto something like PyTorch.
       | 
       | Howard is great with one problem: he kinda hates math. It might
       | also seem that he ends up promoting anti-intellectualism.
        
         | jph00 wrote:
         | > Howard is great with one problem: he kinda hates math
         | 
         | I'm sorry what?
         | 
         | I run a math study group 4x per week.
         | 
         | Right now the book I'm reading during my rest time is a
         | calculus book.
         | 
         | I've co-authored a lengthy paper on matrix calculus foundations
         | for deep learning.
         | 
         | I wrote a lot of the math materials in our numerical linear
         | programming course.
         | 
         | It really seems like you have very very little understanding of
         | me or the software library I've created, but yet are
         | nonetheless comfortable publicly pronouncing your opinions
         | about both.
        
           | rg111 wrote:
        
         | dang wrote:
         | You've recently posted repeated comments that cross into
         | personal attack. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't
         | do it again.
         | 
         | We detached this subthread from
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32189308.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | sabertoothed wrote:
         | I deleted an earlier, angrier comment of mine.
         | 
         | Can you explain this last sentence (which I understand to be
         | insulting and without basis): > Howard is great with one
         | problem: he kinda hates math. It might also seem that he ends
         | up promoting anti-intellectualism.
        
           | rg111 wrote:
           | He says repeatedly "You don't need math", and stuff like
           | that.
           | 
           | This is not insulting. That man is my hero, and I deeply
           | respect him.
           | 
           | But his 2019/20 course was riddled with such statements. He
           | repeatedly said that one doesn't need math, and showed tools
           | like drawing math symbols on a website to learn their names
           | and ride on that. No further math needed.
           | 
           | It's like you can wing it in Deep Learning without learning
           | Math. His behavior throughout the course reinforced this
           | attitude. It is harmful for new learners.
           | 
           | But I am fortunate that I didn't learn from that, but learned
           | from some successful alumni example that Howard gave. One
           | woman who was also a musician ('19/'20), she made it big, but
           | Howard mentioned that she did the Ng course, and also read
           | the Goodfellow book.
           | 
           | So, I took the cue, and did DL the proper way. Anybody I know
           | in DL made it because they know the Math.
           | 
           | There are some influencer types in fastai community who has
           | 10ks of followers and shills stuff and do media stuff. Other
           | than that 1-2 people, everyone who made it in DL, did it
           | because they knew the math.
           | 
           | So, I think that people might get the wrong idea hearing from
           | Howard that "you don't need math".
           | 
           | This is one fault I find. It's not like I dislike him. I like
           | the rest of him. I love his attitude on almost all other
           | things. I love Jeremy Howard, and he is my hero.
        
             | sabertoothed wrote:
             | I think you completely misunderstand his stance.
             | 
             | You don't need the math in the beginning to train a model
             | and get first results. Later, you will need the math and
             | Jeremy clearly knows the math.
             | 
             | He gives a great example: In sports, you don't start with
             | learning about physiology and train individual muscles etc.
             | (I paraphrase), you start playing basketball or baseball or
             | soccer, and understand the overall game. And if you like
             | it, you can then become better and better and get deeper
             | and deeper.
             | 
             | It's not helpful to start with linear algebra if - what
             | motivated you - was the application of ML. We lose people
             | who could have otherwise become experts later.
        
               | sabertoothed wrote:
               | It is far from anti-intellectualism. It is about
               | didactics. And Jeremy is spot on about this.
        
               | rg111 wrote:
               | It is good enough to not need heavy math _to begin_.
               | 
               | Yeah, I know.
               | 
               | But you need a lot of math to _do_ Deep Learning.
               | 
               | But I do not think Howard tries to communicate that.
               | 
               | You can't show me people who knows high school math only
               | and gets to work in FAANG, or PhD in DL/related, or CTO
               | of an AI start-up, or anyhow "made it" in DL.
        
               | idf00 wrote:
               | I think co-writing and co-teaching a math course at a
               | deep learning company he co-founded, pinning that to the
               | github repo and moving it close to the top of the home
               | page makes it pretty clear he does see value in math in
               | deep learning. I mean, if you need other evidence beyond
               | than the fact that he teaches math needed to understand
               | and build things from scratch in the deep learning
               | course...
               | 
               | In the courses he has always been clear you don't need a
               | ton of math to begin. He's also always been clear that as
               | you progress you will encounter math that you need to
               | learn to continue. He's always clear that that is ok if
               | you don't know it before you start and it's ok to learn
               | it when you need it.
        
             | mloncode wrote:
             | > influencer types in the fastai community who have 10ks of
             | followers and shills
             | 
             | Everyone that I can see that fits that profile work at real
             | companies doing real deep learning work, or are building
             | infrastructure and tools that we all use. Nvidia,
             | Huggingface, Etc. I don't see pure media stuff at all, most
             | people are developing libraries or doing other applied
             | work, and talk about their work publicly. Frankly, your
             | comments come across like you are salty. Being a unpleasant
             | person in online forums that enjoys insulting people seems
             | correlated, which likely doesn't bode well for your
             | professional aspirations, regardless of how much math or
             | python you do/don't know.
             | 
             | > You don't need math
             | 
             | He's saying you don't need a PhD in math, not that you
             | should ignore math all together. I have graduate level math
             | and CS background and I don't thing either of those helped
             | much, other than overcoming gatekeeping. The thing thats
             | far more important for applied ML is to practice DL on lots
             | of different problems to be effective. PhD level math might
             | be useful for research, but that isn't necessary in
             | practice for most people.
        
               | rg111 wrote:
        
               | dang wrote:
               | Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't
               | post like this again.
               | 
               | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        
               | BigOlThangs wrote:
        
               | mloncode wrote:
               | > Sanyam Buhtani does not do real DL work.
               | 
               | Oh wow, it seems like you have made a habit of judging
               | people, even though you don't know much about them at
               | all, as recently as 10 minutes ago:
               | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32197090
               | 
               | Despite the fake apologies, I suppose it is a habit you
               | can't really shake.
               | 
               | By the way, how do you do real DL work if you have so
               | much trouble communicating and interacting with people
               | generally? Seems like that would really get in the way of
               | doing anything of any import.
               | 
               | Throwing insults at people using their full names on
               | anonymous internet forums as "being fake" is a special
               | kind of toxic behavior. They really should not allow you
               | to participate in these forums with this kind of
               | behavior.
               | 
               | I've flagged your comment as inappropriate.
        
             | victor106 wrote:
             | Can you please provide some resources you used to learn?
        
               | rg111 wrote:
               | Definitely do the fast.ai course. Totally worth it.
               | 
               | But also use ISLR, Goodfellow, Bishop, etc.
               | 
               | Start with Andrew Ng's ML, then do the first part of
               | Aurelien Geron book, then do Ng's DL specialization, then
               | do fast.ai. Then learn PyTorch. A great book would be
               | Sebastian Raschka's book. Also d2l.ai. A fast-paced, but
               | really good course would be the Neuromatch DL tutorials.
               | 
               | Then move forward based on your interests.
               | 
               | Yann LeCun has THE best MOOC on DL on YouTube.
               | 
               | For the Math, I majored in Physics, so stuff came
               | naturally. I suggest Imperial London's MOOC on
               | Mathematics for ML specialization, Robert Ghrist's
               | Calculus course, VMLS book for Linear Algebra. For stats,
               | haven't found a good one yet.
               | 
               | What you read, how much- these all depend on what you
               | want to do. Where do you want to see yourself, and so on.
               | 
               | If you just want to brag about DL and put it on your
               | resume so that you can get a job writing SQL queries and
               | make PowerBI presentation as a "Data Scientist", then the
               | bars are low.
               | 
               | If you want to _do_ some DL, then that is another league
               | altogether.
               | 
               | You need to be able to quickly read papers, understand
               | ideas, use those for your own projects or papers.
               | 
               | Makes sense?
        
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