DAWNBench fast.ai post

Just posted a little writeup of our DAWNBench results - thanks to everyone involved!

http://www.fast.ai/2018/04/30/dawnbench-fastai/

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Great to see the work of fellow fastai students translate into such tangible results, in a short period of time. And yes, we don’t need to worry about being resource constrained to do things creatively and differently :slight_smile:

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Currently on the front page of Hacker News :slight_smile: https://news.ycombinator.com/news

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Also on PyTorch home page. :slight_smile:

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Compelling story, wonderful writing, inspiring and encouraging blog rather than the gloating and showboating papers we sometimes read.

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Great write-up about Fastai and the DAWNBench results. Congrats to all that participated!

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Wow fast.ai team + DAWNBench just got featured on the Nvidia developer blog. Congrats everyone!

@jeremy

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We’ve been cited at the Google I/O 18, too!

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The Google team also replicated image scaling and learning rate schedules and posted a better result on TPUs. They tweeted thanks to fast.ai as well.

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