Hello there ,
I’m super stoked for this course to start. I call myself an AI engineer. Currently working on. Image segmentations and image GANs. I felt my knowledge is limiting me somehow, which turns out to be the reason I’m taking this course. Excited tokick off this deep learning journey with fast.ai 1.0. All the best to everyone and to myself also ;).
Cheers,
Shreyas
Hi, I’m Marc from France/Hungary. I’ve been studying ML since 2014 with Andrew Ng course and since then I’ve been hooked. I’ve really enjoyed learning from the Fastai course. Awesome approach. I’m super excited to attend live this year and deepen my knowledge 
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I have a bunch of deep learning open source projects on my Github https://github.com/marcbelmont and I am currently building a license plate recognition business https://platerecognizer.com/.
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So good to be here for this Part1 v3 !!! 
I’m an Architect in Spain and have spent most of my professional life in corporate world.
I attended last part1 & part2 courses and looking forward to go on learning from and
-hopefully- contribute to this amazing comunity.
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Hi, I’m Ahmed from morocco, I am e engineering student doing two masters in France, one in computer science and the other one in artificial intelligence, i did an internship in data science, I have a good knowledge and experience in the ML field, Im submitting in this course because i want to master the deep learning and to be able to apply it in real life projects.
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Hello, my name is Laurent. I’ve been the tech lead in a couple of early stage startups, and worked in the humanitarian field before. I’ve loosely followed a few other deep learning courses (including v2 of fast.ai, which I really liked) and aiming to do better this time. I am currently interested in using DL to extract useful info from satellite imagery, mostly for humantarian/development purposes. I recently finished last in https://www.crowdai.org/challenges/mapping-challenge/leaderboards (or in the top 10 depending on how you look at it )
Looking forward to the course!
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Hi, my name is Emmanuel (from Ghana). I’m in my final year in the university and hope to use this course to jump start a career in deep learning. I look forward to contributing and learning from all of you.
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Hi everyone! Excited to join the new version of the course! I’m Tarik from Morocco and I’m an Android developer. I’m trying to learn as much as I can and work on interesting data projects along the way. I’ve previously done some online courses including fast.ai part 1 (the one using pytorch) and currently mostly practising in Kaggle competitions. Looking forward to the course!
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Hello All,
I am Satyajit from Bangalore, India. Currently I have worked on ML ( Time Series, Linear etc) in my current project. I am also learning DL from fast.ai. I am excited to learn more on DL and apply in real life .
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Hello everyone! I’m a lawyer in Singapore with a former background in computer science. I’ve been picking up deep learning for NLP and participating in study groups since the beginning of the year but would like to start building applications powered by deep learning, especially in the legal domain. Looking forward to the course but even more excited to get involved in this wonderful community.
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Hi Everyone!
I am Pavel, I am working mainly with ML, but want to enlarge my DL skills.
I am working on a small project right now, which is dedicated to helping maritime archeologists identify the types of ships using pictiues of shipwrecks.
Hello, I am Joakim from Sweden. My interests for AI started in university (20 years ago… ) and my first job after graduation was to develop the AI-engine in a real time strategy game. Since then I have been all around the place in various roles as developer, architect, program manager, digital strategist and advisor, running my own business and a couple of years as the global head of business technology in the automotive industry.
At the moment trying to get deep into a variety of areas of AI and ML, listened to all online material from Practical Deep Learning For Coders, Part 1 and setup my own local Ubuntu machine and ran through all of lectures.
Really looking forward to this course, which seems to have a great community of awesome people! Although 2.30 in the morning Swedish time zone, but will probably align well with my just newly born son that will keep me awake anyways during those times.
Cheers
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Hello, my name is Steve Munene I am from Kenya, I am a computer science graduate and currently working as a software engineer. I am relatively new to the field of machine learning/ deep learning. I am hoping to switch my career to a more AI oriented field like machine/deep learning. I am hopeful this course will steer me in the right direction.
Awesome work! Where did you get the data set for skin mole detection? I think it would be a great app for mobile devices.
Thanks for the online course.
I am from Slovenia, unlike most of those present, I have little programming experience (exactly that 1 year). In a past life, I was an athlete and made a marketing agency to support sports companies.
After switching, I study ML by all means: through courses, competitions, as well as embedding ML in sports marketing.
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Hello All,I am Prashant.I work as Perception engineer in Munich for autonomous driving .I have gone through fastai course like ML and DL part 1 and now currently doing DL part 2.I really enjoyed the way Jermery teaches.I am really excited to be part of DL part 1 v3.
Thanks,
Prashant
Hiho, my name is Dominik and I’m currently finishing my MSc. in CS.
I am particularly interested in Computer Vision, Graphics, Visualization and have just earlier this year started to take a look at DL as it seems that DL techniques continue to smash SoTAs in these fields.
Right now I’m working on my masters thesis on 6D object detection using DL techniques.
The last version of the course has been an amazing resource to get started and I’m super excited to see which nice new magic tricks the new v1 framework and the new course bring 
Starting my PhD in December, I’m super excited to get all those ideas in my head up and running, most probably in fastai v1.
Thanks for all the amazing work and effort you put into this course, I’m super excited!
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Hi everybody,
I’m Timo from Germany and working as a consultant in data science and AI. Looking forward to learn together with all of you! And I’m already thinking about how to adjust my sleep and coffee-schedule for the live events 
I’m always looking for exchange on data science and AI topics, so I’m happy to connect!
Thanks at fast.at and Jeremy for providing these awesome courses!
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Hi, I’m Bart from Amsterdam (but moving to SF soon) and I’m excited to be a part of this FastAI iteration! I’m finishing the FastAI ML course now, and it is great; high expectations for this one!
I’m a software engineer, and I’ve been building search and recommendation engines. Basically, I want to see if and how deep learning can help put (re-)ranking and collaborative filtering on steroids.
From a more hobbyist-ish perspective, I’m working on a very basic OCR (text recognition) library, and I think having a neural net on top of the extraction stuff I have now will help a lot
Hello everyone! My name is Max.
I come from Moldova but have been living in China for the past 10 years.
My background is economics and finance, I’ve got my PhD from a Chinese university in 2016 and then started teaching economics and finance at a college in Beijing.
About 3 years ago I got interested in ML so I took Udacity’s Machine Learning Engineer nanodegree. Then, last year, I learned about fastai, part I (it was at v1 back then) and binge watched all the lectures and did some of the coding after that. Since then I fell in love with deep learning.
In one of the lectures, Jeremy mentioned capsule networks and I got curious about them and learned anything I could find about the topic. I also remember Rachel and Jeremy suggesting that students write blog posts about what they learn. So, when the “official” papers about capsule networks came out, I felt that I knew enough that I could write a blog post about them, so I created a blog on Medium and wrote about them. I got lucky and it got a lot of views and positive feedback.
During the past 2 years I’ve been participating in various projects around deep learning, even teaching in workshops some of the topics like the basics of CNNs and Tensorflow. Last month, I quit my job as an economics lecturer and I am currently preparing to interview for full-time ML/DL positions. 2-3 years ago I wouldn’t even believe this was a possible path I could be taking.
My biggest weakness is that I focus too much on theory and too little on practice. So, for this course, the goal I am setting is to focus more heavily on the coding side and doing projects and Kaggle competitions. Another goal is to learn how to use Tensorflow to do things taught in the course. I know that fastai library uses PyTorch as backend, but most companies hiring for DL positions in Beijing ask for Tensorflow. Maybe as a group project, porting fastai to TF will be interesting to some of the students.
I’d like to thank Jeremy and Rachel to the amazing things they are doing at fastai! I am really excited about being able to participate in the upcoming live sessions of fastai v3!
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Hello everyone! I’m Anurag. I’m currently working as a chat bot developer so my work is mostly with NLP. I think deep learning can deeply affect (pun absolutely intended!) the way we look at language(s). My course project (as of now at least, haha) is to build a POS tagger for Indic languages like Hindi or perhaps my mother tongue Marathi.
Thank you Jeremy and Rachel for giving us this amazing opportunity.
P.S: @jolackner Sounds really interesting! Hopefully we’ll understand enough about RNNs by the end of the course to take a shot at dialogue generation.
P.P.S: People of Pune (@Shreyas_fastAi, @rpathak) maybe we can form a offline study group?
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