Practical Deep Learning for Coders: Lesson 1
What it is
Lesson 1 of fast.ai's Practical Deep Learning for Coders, taught by Jeremy Howard. It takes coders from running code in a Jupyter notebook straight into training a real image model.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN considers the course one of the best hands-on ways into deep learning, praising the code-first teaching style.
- 2 people recommended it
- 2 different months
- 1 strong recommendations
- first 2022, last 2023
What HN commenters said
“The lectures are super hands on - Jeremy actually fires up a jupyter notebook and runs code which often surprises him”
Hands-on lectures run in Jupyter, with Kaggle deep dives.
ujjwalgrover, 2023-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: What's the best lecture series you've ever seen?”
“one of the most recommended AI courses on HN”
First lesson covers image techniques applied to audio spectrograms.
superpope99, 2022-12 · Recommendation · in “Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate Music”
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Topics: fast.ai, jeremy howard, pytorch, jupyter, image classification
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