Hello! Intros thread!

Part 1 (2017)
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Hi all,

My name is Aki and I live in Helsinki, Finland.

I’m a life long learner and a “hacker”.

Been interested in Machine Learning ever since I joined Andrew Ng’s brilliant Machine Learning course in 2011 - the dawn of MOOCs. After that I’ve followed a many Deep Learning courses including the legendary Hinton’s Neural Networks for Machine Learning (didn’t pass, but learned a lot). I’ve also followed the beautiful Abu Mostafa’s Machine Learning course on youtube. And of course the truly informational cs231n by Andrej Karpathy. I hope I’m not forgetting some course that I should give credit here…

However, this course has been the first one that gave me the abilities to do my first submissions for Kaggle competitions. And for this I can’t even think of a way to give enough thanks to Jeremy and Rachel for this beautifully designed course!

I got my first computer as a present from my dear godfather. This is it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microprofessor_II

That’s how I began my interest in computers. Back in the 1990’s, at the age around 14-15 years I was running my own BBS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system). Ever since I’ve been more than keen to learn everything about computers. :slight_smile:

However, I haven’t (never went to uni, at least this yet) got a formal education in Information Technology.

Currently, for bread, I program Perl.

It’s a coincidence, but before joining this course, last December (iirc) I switched my email provider to Fastmail and I’ve been really happy with their service. Thank you Jeremy for the great service! :slight_smile: Only moan about the service is that it’s rendering ascii-smileys as happy face images (luckily this “feature” is only on when viewing the messages and actual recipients see the ascii-smileys as they are).

Of course I would like to help the world with the Deep Learning skills learned here, but if I’m honest, I’ll hope that some day I’ll get an idea for a Deep Learning app that will provide passive income for me for the rest of my life. Then I could more easily concentrate on helping the world with my computer skills. :wink:

Thanks to Jeremy and Rachel for making this course that gives me the possibility to make my dreams come true!

Happy hacking to all of you!

Best regards,
Aki

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Hi fellow DL learners!

My background is biology. I’m interested in using deep learning to solve conservation and social issues. I don’t know which yet though.

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Interested in conservation issues. Background in Economics / financial planning and analysis. I’m always looking to lend a hand towards good conservation causes.

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Hi,

My name is Saqib Shamsi. I am from India. I am a Software Engineer with an inclination towards machine learning. I wish to pursue higher education in machine learning. For now, I want to understand and apply machine learning in competitions.

Regards,
Saqib

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Good day! I too would like to join the slack channel, but the linked post says I don’t have access. Is there another avenue? Also, the platform.ai repository seems to have been moved elsewhere?

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Hi @Astayonix,

You’re right, the files have been moved to files.fast.ai:

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Hello everyone!

I just finished both parts of the course and I can’t wait for part 3 (or part 0?).

My name is Oren Dar - originally from Israel, currently enrolled in an undergraduate program at an international university and studying around the world :slight_smile:

I’m a CS major and I love data science, and I think this generation of students (myself included) are extremely lucky to have people like Jeremy and Rachel teaching us data science at the highest level without spending several months drowning in complex equations before we ever see code, which makes it accessible even if you don’t have a PhD in math.

I’m sure many more students feel exactly the same way as I do, so I would like to personally thank you both from the bottom of my heart.

Hope to see all of you around!

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Aaaah! Thank you for that! :slight_smile:

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Hi all, middle aged nuclear eng from Italy here with an MSc and a PhD (materials science) from England. Working 50% at own r&d projects, 50% as a consultant. I hope to apply some concepts from this course to my field. Many thanks to Jeremy and Rachel for having made DL code oriented. Keep going! Gius

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Would love to hear if you find some interesting applications in nuclear eng!

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materials science with using microscopy images of damaged components may be one… :innocent:

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I’m a middle aged Italian electrical and control engineer, working in Switzerland (Zurich) in a small company, http://www.balzano.ch/en/. We apply DL to MRI analysis, focusing on orthopedics. I’ve worked for years as a data scientist, in a consulting company in Italy and at the National Cancer Center in Milan. Thank you Jeremy and Rachel for your excellent course! Btw, Jeremy, how is it going with Enlitic? I got inspired from your (previous?) company. I’m interested in applying Machine Learning and Deep Learning to healthcare.
Francesco Civardi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fcivardi/

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Hi,

my name is Sven. I am from Germany and am a self-taught software engineer since 20 years. I love to learn languages and can speak Japanese and Chinese fluently and currently am also learning Korean. My private project at the moment is to write a software that teaches language learners how to properly use grammar for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. I hope I could use word-embeddings and deep learning techniques to improve my grammar models. My other hobby is dancing.

Thank you, Sven

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Hey all,

I’m Avinash, a Biotech major turned software developer currently working at a parenting platform startup. I’m leveraging ML/NLP to analyze conversations engaged on our forums to help young parents get solutions quickly and am looking to learn new techniques and best practices here.

I organize Deep Learning Delhi meetup and also run Deep Hunt, a newsletter for all things ML. I strongly believe that making technology more accessible to wider people will help in bringing more diversity in thinking and benefit more people.

I enjoy meeting like minded people and if you’re looking for someone to talk about the applications of ML in Indian startups and how ML is perceived here, hit me up :slight_smile:

Thank you @jeremy and @rachel for starting this course!

Cheers,
Avinash

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Hi @hvrigazov, how do you manage to implement advanced lane finding? I am interested in counting the number of lanes as seen in images taken from a car and the main problem would be the perspective. Thanks.

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Hello all! I am new to this course . I have previous experience in Deep learning,. I have joined it to learn deeper in Deep learning. However I have some questions .

  1. Can I share my ML , DL projects here ?

  2. I have a facebook group on ML . Can I share its link here ? any problem with that ? Please reply :slight_smile:

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Yes, you are welcome to share links to relevant projects you’ve built and to resources that may be helpful to other students.

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Thanks Rachel… However , I am confused about how to create a new topic for it … Please can you clarify ?

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I am an experimental scientist in the materials/semiconductor/nanotechnology fields and want to apply deep learning to make some of the things we have to do (domain expertise) more efficient and widely available.

I am not a coder; so for the last several years, I was searching online forums to first figure out search keywords for things I needed and the scripts to figure out the code to put together a model, until coming across Taposh’s medium post(medical image analysis with deep learning) that pointed (convolutions explained in excel) me here. So an instant fan of Jeremy and Rachel!

For a simple example of how primitive my coding familiarity is, import numpy as numerical python instead of np, would let me assimilate the code much quicker. It makes it easier to decide if I need to google ‘import’ first or ‘numerical python’. Someday would like to capture this learning process as well.

I am going through the video lessons, sometimes 5/6 times, and using the jupyter notebooks to put together a demo for my project. I am not following the chapters sequentially. Making progress to the point that I can now feel the demo and starting to get impatient as to how long its taking me.

Would love to collaborate with someone here.

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I am a Software Automation Engineer in the transportation and logistics field. I have a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Nebraska in Omaha. My background is not in Python, but I have coded in Ruby and ASP.net in the past. Currently I am getting close to finishing part 2 and I just bought my first deep learning computer! I am starting to get more involved in different competitions and my hope is that if I can get better at machine learning, I can bring some innovations to my current company (or whichever company I’m working for in the future) and mine the data.gov website to help the government identify issues and become more efficient.

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