Cool! And was that a student visa or a vocational visa?
Vocational visa
Thank You very much @jeremy and @rachel and @yinterian. Applying fastai library to a real life Structured Dataset problem was extremely useful. The idea of embeddings instead of simple dummy variables is amazing.
Lesson 3 (Rossman notebook â structured data sets) alone is worth the course. Besides all that we have clear explanations on tons of useful topics like image classification, CNN, convolutions, working on Kaggle competitions, AWS (with a decent amount of credits for free!), etc. In parallel started watching the Machine Leaning material and discovered another treasure!
While waiting for part2, I will be gaining experience on all this material and applying whatever I can in real projects and Kaggle competitions.
Grateful for this experience and please count on me to help if you need.
I have taken many courses online but @jeremy your teaching approach and style is different and very practical. At first it feels like, is it this simple, just run few lines and you get worldâs best classifier? And actually it is once you understand the theory, reasons and optimizationâs behind them. I still have to catch up on lot of topics and then try to solve some real world problems, by that time it will be time for part2âŚ
Just want to say thank you and your team for your time in creating this course and offering to general public. Hats off to your patience and dedication in this field. There is lots to learn from you, not just ML/DL. Glad I found your course.
My journey beginsâŚ
Finally I have started the revision phase successfully.
Does anyone recall if we covered how to merge e.g. categorical features with, say, image or textual data into a single model? In looking at p1v1 of this course, I see that in Keras you would use the merge function. Iâm wondering how this is done in fastai / pytorch . I tried to do it here in PredictHappinessDataset
but I donât know if that was correct or not. (That code runs without error, Iâm just not convinced it helps the results)
It seems to me you could also use this sort of mechanism to add features from pretrained models, such as word2vec, etc. You might not want to train them further, but they could be additional features.
This is the last batch of âVideo Timelines for Part 1 V2â, I hope this will help those of you who like to review specific parts of the lessons.
@Jeremy: I remember that you edited (shortened) the 2016/2017 videos captured in-class, before posting them in the public version of the MOOC. As a result, my current timelines posts in Part 1 V2 may become out-of-sync.
Video timelines for Lesson 7
(Updated for the final video version, thanks to @hiromi )
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00:03:04 Review of last week lesson on RNNs,
Part 1, what to expect in Part 2 (start date: 19/03/2018) -
00:08:48 Building the RNN model with âself.init_hidden(bs)â and âself.hâ, the âback prop through time (BPTT)â approach
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00:17:50 Creating mini-batches, âsplit in 64 equal size chunksâ not âsplit in chunks of size 64â, questions on data augmentation and choosing a BPTT size, PyTorch QRNN
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00:23:41 Using the data formats for your API, changing your data format vs creating a new dataset class, âdata.Field()â
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00:24:45 How to create Nietzsche training/validation data
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00:35:43 Dealing with PyTorch not accepting a âRank 3 Tensorâ, only Rank 2 or 4, âF.log_softmax()â
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00:44:05 Question on âF.tanh()â, tanh activation function,
replacing the âRNNCellâ by âGRUCellâ -
00:47:15 Intro to GRU cell (RNNCell has gradient explosion problem - i.e. you need to use low learning rate and small BPTT)
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00:53:40 Long Short Term Memory (LSTM), âLayerOptimizer()â, Cosine Annealing âCosAnneal()â
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01:01:47 Pause
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01:01:57 Back to Computer Vision with CIFAR 10 and âlesson7-cifar10.ipynbâ notebook, Why study research on CIFAR 10 vs ImageNet vs MNIST ?
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01:08:54 Looking at a Fully Connected Model, based on a notebook from student âKerem Turgutluâ, then a CNN model (with Excel demo)
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01:21:54 Refactored the model with new class âConvLayer()â and âpaddingâ
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01:25:40 Using Batch Normalization (BatchNorm) to make the model more resilient, âBnLayer()â and âConvBnNet()â
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01:36:02 Previous bug in âMini netâ in âlesson5-movielens.ipynbâ, and many questions on BatchNorm, Lesson 7 Cifar10, AI/DL researchers vs practioners, âYann Lecunâ & âAli Rahimi talk at NIPS 2017â rigor/rigueur/theory/experiment.
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01:50:51 âDeep BatchNormâ
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01:52:43 Replace the model with ResNet, class âResnetLayer()â, using âboostingâ
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01:58:38 âBottleneckâ layer with âBnLayer()â, âResNet 2â with âResnet2()â, Skipping Connections.
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02:02:01 âlesson7-CAM.ipynbâ notebook, an intro to Part #2 using âDogs v Catsâ.
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02:08:55 Class Activation Maps (CAM) of âDogs v Catsâ.
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02:14:27 Questions to Jeremy: âYour journey into Deep Learningâ and âHow to keep up with important research for practionersâ,
âIf you intend to come to Part 2, you are expected to master all the techniques in Part 1â, Jeremyâs advice to master Part 1 and help new students in the incoming MOOC version to be released in January 2018.
@EricPB I post the edit video the day after each class and link it from the wiki. It looks like at least for lesson 7 youâve used the automatically saved version of the live stream? Did you use that for the other timelines too? If so, as you say, weâll need to redo them.
Hi @jeremy,
I may have made a mistake on this Lesson 7 session indeed.
Right now, with Christmas time arriving and family & friends coming over to Stockholm, timing is pretty tight.
What is the deadline to fix those timelines before open/public release ?
E.
Iâm hoping to release around the end of the year - but I imagine itâll be a while before people get on to lesson 7!
I can help you with lesson 7 video if youâd like!
That would be great! If you edit the original wiki post you can see the markdown format of the timeline - so the idea would be to replicate that, but with the corrected times using the posted lesson video.
Iâll get right on it
Done! I added two that werenât in @EricPBâs, but everything else is the same with updated timeline and URL.
Wow youâre speedy!
Thanks a lot @hiromi !
Iâll update my post in this thread with your timelines as well, credit to you
Thanks for doing all the video timelines