Hi, my name is Pavel, I’m from Moscow (Russia). I am a gamedesigner.
I’ve been following fastai course since it’s first version. One of russian tech influencers tweeted about fastai’s awesome learning technique and, damn, he was right
Since the first inception I can’t recommend enough your course to everyone who asks me about ML/NN (and sometimes I do it even if they don’t ask ) as your way of teaching (from the practical results to core theory) is muuuch more efficient in terms of motivation, at least for me personally.
As I said I am a gamedesingner and I’m looking forward to find a way to use fastai in my profession (after all this summer of AI wouldn’t be so shiny without game industry and it’s cheap graphic cards ). Not much so far and I’ve ended up with tabular data analysis with NN (as we have no deficit of tables in games).
As Jeremy suggested in Introduction to Machine Learning course I’ve made an implementation of Feature Importance and Partial Dependence with fastai library (version 0.7 I think). And then I’ve used it to have fun in trying to analyse (european) Football transfers. And as it appear fastai is not only capable of predicting players’ transfer value as good as people (including professionals from transfermarkt.de), but it also can help to catch some interesting insights about this market.
I am looking forward to start a new course and learn how the library and fastai techniques evolved through these 1.5 years.
And Jeremy (or maybe someone from the previous private groups can tell) I have a question. In the initial post you’ve mention that it will be a live stream. Would it be possible to watch it some hours (days) later as time difference will hardly let be watch it online?
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