Yes, I want to help more Chinese to study fast.ai too. The following is my attempts.
I have done very detailed 7 lesson notes in English and done a lot of ytcropper, and I am incorporating them into the existing forum lesson notes.
Meanwhile I started to contribute to English subtitle and Chinese subtitle for 2019 lesson videos on Youtube, but I fear as Machine Translation becomes more and more powerful, any subtitle will be made obsolete soon. So, I am not strongly motivated to work on English and Chinese subtitles. Maybe I am wrong about this, what’s your opinion?
I am experienced in making short study note video series on ML and DL courses. I have done Ng’s ML and DL courses study-notes-videos in Chinese. Although Ng’s videos are wonderful and extremely friendly, still lots of people appreciate and consider my study note videos to be good complement with original videos with Chinese subtitles. So, my current plan is to turn the forum incorporated lesson notes into a long series of short videos in Chinese, and I will post the video links here.
Of course, I will provide the Chinese version of lesson notes here too.
Will my plan of work violate any rules of fast.ai?
When the study note videos are done and posted, how can I give credit to fast.ai and people on forum formally and correctly?
I think it’ll be a few more years until automatic translations are good enough that people won’t want manual ones - so I think it would still be very valuable indeed.
Fantastic! That will be great
There’s no “formal and correct” approach - just a note at the top that your notes are summarizing a fast.ai lesson, along with a link to the lesson, would be a good way for people using your notes to be aware of the source, and access it if they wish.
The forum post system says I edit too much and only allow to edit again after 3 hours. How can I get around this for working on this particular post intensively? thanks!
Hey Daniel, forum posts are pretty useful for a live update when the class is still going on. As for completed courses, I would recommend @hiromi’s approach, that is, creating them on Github like this. Note that I am not saying that you should transcript the lecture video word by word like @hiromi, which is a lot of work; (you are my hero, @hiromi) rather, I mean that I would go for Github rather than Discourse forum for collaborating on and sharing lecture notes on completed courses. It is visually more friendly to the reader and allows for better collaboration. Discourse is really not intended for this purpose.
The first time around, I put my notes up in https://medium.com/. It definitely had wider audiences but editing and maintaining was a little difficult because there is no plain markdown text you can access. So for something simple like video URL changing was not as simple as find and replace.
For all the amazing posts you have shared above, since these are all md, we should be able to get most of them to work just by copying and pasting. Feel free to start an issue or pull request in https://github.com/fastai/course-v3. We could figure out how to organize them there.
Let me know if there is anything I could help with the docs and website build process. It could be a bit tricky when getting started, but you will find the workflow pretty smooth after getting used to it.
Thanks @PegasusWithoutWinds, I am sure I will need your help on all these issues mentioned above at some point in the future. At the moment, I have no idea what is necessary to be added onto course v3 repo, given this Chinese version note only just get started.
Right now, I will just try to keep working on this, adding more content, as it progress, many of the issues above may become necessary and I will push them forward with your help.
There is a limit on number of words you can write in a single discourse post. I remember crossing it for one my my lesson notes and had to truncate it.
