My study group(me+2) is almost finished with the book, and we are interested in joining in a more mentor-like capacity. Would this be something your group would be interested in?
We start on Sept 9, 2020, 5:30-7:30pm PST. They will be recorded, but will follow the video lessons 2020v4, (1-8)
For those that want some mentorship, perhaps you can engage the TWIML community and begin another study group. There’s quite a bit of groups going on over there. I’d wish I can take them all.
To join the slack, I followed the “join us” link on this page and received an invitation to join the TWIML Slack, from which I was able to join the #fast_ai_practical_dl channel.
Hi @foobar8675,
A few people from the sf study group are actually doing that (continue after the lectures ended) but we’re getting close to the end of the book (we just covered ch 17 today).
You could still join us for chapters 18 and 19 if you want (chapter 20 is just conclusion so we probably won’t have a separate discussion for that).
Thanks Butch,That sounds super interesting, but I tried following the thread, but am a bit confused. Is the next meeting on the 24th and it’s the google meet link at the top of the link (not zoom)?
Is it not really a lecture but more of a discussion of what people have learned in that chapter / worked on?
Sorry, for the confusion, I don’t think the links have been updated (we used to meet on Mondays).
There’s 2 meetings – a biweekly meeting on Thursdays 7-830 PST (there’s one scheduled this week I think) for project presentations, blog posts, etc and a weekly book reading meeting every Wednesday 6-9 PM.
We usually allot 2.5 hours for reading a chapter – but we share the questionnaire and pick the questions to answer at the start of the session and then discuss the answers for about 30-45 minutes after the reading session.
Everybody gets to answer 1 or 2 questions from the questionnaire so the discussion is distributed among all participants.