Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 1 · 8:00 – 9:00pm EST, I have some classes so I won’t be able to join.
Will meet next week. Hoping to see you all in the next meeting.
Great study session with @willsa14 yesterday We are getting into a groove and some of the brain clouds are lifting as we begin to head into the warmer months here in the northeast! 
Some key topics covered included:
- I attended a virtual session, sponsored by https://www.ssrc.org this past Monday where, Timnit Gebru was one of four women speakers discussing AI and ethics related which was very fascinating!!! if you don’t know about her story, I strongly recommend you google it! This will round out the lecture on ethics.
As promise, here are some of the resources they shared during that session that I plan to dig into.
https://instituto.mijente.net/courses/tech-wars/?ms=TW
For those asking about non-US contexts/orgs, here are a few I follow: Internet Freedom Foundation in India, Arab Center for Social Media Advancement in Palestine, Greta Lab in Brazil
Race after Technology Book by Safiya Noble
@ssrc_just_tech https://twitter.com/ssrc_just_tech
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@willsa14 shared a very interesting work from a thought-leader in the ML space.
Brandon Rohrer who has a blog that I will start reading. Understanding UMAP
We also are making a commitment to finish lecture 4, which is a beast!, by the end of March. So for everyone following this study group, I encourage you to join us and syncing our study to completing Lecture 4 by March 31st!
See you next Tuesday!
FastAI Study Group 2022
Tuesday, March 8 · 8:00 – 9:00pm
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/xxv-uxgv-xki
Another great session with @willsa14. In last Tuesday study group we got into the weeds of the coding in lecture 4 represented in 04_mnist_basics.ipynb Jupyter notebook.
This was all about dissecting each component of the code to understand what it meant. We also are beginning to appreciate the algorithm behind ML while discussing some key fundamental concepts covered during the last 15 minutes in lecture 3.
Our goal for the next study group will be to truly understand the difference between the accuracy (as know as performance) and the learning rate.
Below is the study group meeting info.
Hope to see you there!
FastAI 2022 Study Group
Tuesday, March 15 · 8:00 – 9:00pm
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/zsm-wdvf-rbr
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Do you have a slack for your meetings? I am interested in joining the next one!
Hi, I would like to join as well!
@bpythonist I will put the link to the google meet shortly for next week’s study group.
@shungww I will put the link to the google meet shortly for next week’s study group.
Another great study group session with @willsa14. We now have both feet into Lecture 4 and are continuing to go through key concepts like.
- What role does the accuracy play vs. the learning rate?
2)Does the learning rate ever change?
3)would you consider one batch, if large enough, a little ML which results are leveraged with subsequent batch results?
if so, how does that work?
and many more wonderings we are musing about in our study group!
One key concept we are able to fully grasp, thanks to @Kerner, is the mechanics of how the mean is actually calculated on a 3 rank tensor.
you can find that answer at this link.
Next week we will continue to go through the concepts covered in lecture 4.
Hope to see you there!
FastAI 2022 Study Group
Tuesday, March 22 · 8:00 – 9:00pm EST.
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/oig-fpxf-ohn
Hey, what Time Zone is the meeting is by? (GMT?)
@Danrohn EST.
Hope you can join!
~Bryon
A Great study group on the first half of lecture 4.
We clarified the importance of zeroing out the require_grad function and the rationale behind it. We also went through the answers to the lecture 4 questions from this thread.
See you next week. Same FastAI time and place
FastAI 2022 Study Group
Tuesday, March 29 · 8:00 – 9:00pm EST.
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/ite-mzgy-wbk
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Hey, is there any WhatsApp group or something alike to join in?
Where are you guys active mostly?
@Danrohn we primarily engage on the Google Meets every Tuesday.
@bbrown I am beginning the Deep Learning for coders course by fast.ai. How do I join the study along sessions?
@willsa14 forgot to create a link for our studygroup.
4/5/2020 8-9pm EST
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Hi all, I’d like to join the study group, I’m in midway through the book myself. Should I just join the google meet or?..
You can join us on the next study group. I will post the link in this thread shortly.
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you can join the next group will share link shortly.
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Another great study group session.
Next session link info is below.
2022 Fastai Study Group Session
Tuesday, April 12 · 8:00 – 9:00pm EST.
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/gfw-ihna-zvc
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Hi, this is Mukesh from India nice to join the community. Next Study group meeting which is April 12. I think it april 13, 5.30 am to 6.30 am correct me if i am wrong. Looking forward to learn…Thanks