If I understand correctly, the version of Fast.ai in the courses uses Pytorch 0.3.0 and the new Fast.ai 1.0 works with Pytorch 1.0. This is all fine for my own computers, but I currently work for a company and all Python packages need to be approved before they can be used.
Unfortunately, the only version of Pytorch that’s approved there is 0.4.0. Strangely, Fast.ai is also approved but it doesn’t always run properly due to the incompatibilities of running it on Pytorch 0.4.0. I suppose we could also petition to get version 1.0 approved but since we use Windows machines and there’s no way to install it in Windows without compiling from source (also a no-no here), we’re pretty much SOL when it comes to using Fast.ai.
I suppose, as a last resort, we could go with the 2017 version of Fast.ai which uses Keras for now.