[MLT] fastbook Study Group (Sat 4-6 PM IST | Sun 5PM-7PM PT) Run 2!

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Study group for fast.ai book and course

Note: There are now 2 study groups to cover maximum time zones, Starting Saturday August 29th and 30th:

  • Asia/Europe: Saturdays at 4PM-6PM Indian Time (3.30am pacific, 6.30am eastern, 11.30am Britain)

  • US Time Zones: Sundays 5PM-7PM PT (8pm Eastern, 1am (Monday) Britain, 5:30am (Monday) IST)

Other:

  • (Unofficial) Office Hours: Saturdays 5PM PT (8PM Eastern) A call to ask questions about ML in general or from any lecture of the course (Not following a structure/schedule), please check here

Where to get the Book:

Structure

This will be hosted via the Machine Learning Tokyo Community and fastai discord.

We’ll utilise the text channels for discussions and a weekly zoom call that will be hosted on Saturdays

Or you can simply join via Zoom.

The structure follows a Silent Study Group + discussions:

  • 1.5 hours of Silently reading the book by ourself.
  • 30 minutes of discussing the book, questionnaire, related topics

Schedule:

Note: Zoom links are different for both the calls and are prone to change, please always check this wiki and make sure you’re using the right one to join:

  • US Call: Sunday from 5PM-7PM PT (8PM PT, 1AM Britain (Mon), 5:30AM (Mon) IST. Zoom Link to join
  • Asia/Europe Call: Saturday from 4PM-6PM Indian Time (3.30am pacific, 6.30am eastern, 11.30am Britain), Zoom Link to join

The goal is not to complete a fixed number of pages every meeting but instead read at our own pace, run the notebooks and discuss.

I’ll be leading the discussions since I’ve had a small head start with the book.

Note: The sessions will NOT be recorded to respect the license of the book, please read more here. Instead the discussions will be documented via this Wiki

History and Motivation:

We’ve recently completed 18 weeks of studying the fastai book with a very strong group at Machine Learning Tokyo, Tweet thread about what we’ve learned while organising these.

Since the group and new course are now live, we’ll be re-starting the study group starting this Saturday at 4PM IST (Note: Timings are totally upto the group’s decisions) + Now we have a group for US at 5PM PT (Sundays)

  • Sanyam
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Very happy that you started. Thank you. Looking forward

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Thanks for the initiative. So we just need to join at last 30 minutes of every session in zoom call?

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Sure! You could do that, but the MLT Group has been hosting a silent study group and personally I find it v encouraging to go through the book along w the group

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@dkobran & @tomg. FYI, we have study group of ~50 people, I’ve recommend paperspace to our group and helped everyone setup. If any/some issues arise, I’ll bring them to your attention :slight_smile:

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Hi, the link to the Zoom meeting is not responsive

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As a reminder, we’ll be reading lesson 2 and discussing lesson-1 today

Link to join will remain same each week, please look at top wiki for all details.

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Hi Sanyam,

I might be missing something, but the link for zoom doesn’t work. It’s not even clickable. Can you please confirm if it works or is it just a problem I am facing. All the other links work.

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Sorry about that, I’ve just corrected it, should work now.

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@gansme, @czechcheck, continuing the discussion here.

Could you please join the MLT Slack community which we use to organise these, I’ll introduce you to the organising teams :slight_smile:

Edit: Link to join

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Hey @zerotosingularity!
I know you had mentioned that seeme.ai is currently in beta-invite for Course p1-v4 students, is it okay if I showcase it in our study group?

Thanks!

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Absolutely!

Is there any way I can support you for that? iOS version, SDK sample, …?

Thank you!

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Oh wow, I’m sorry I’ve been behind, Last time I checked there was just a Python version :smiley:

Will DM you for help :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the kind offer, @init_27. We’re merging in a fast.ai meetup group @marii has been running for a while so we’re all set with 2 co-hosts. I’ve updated the Bay Area thread with info on the new post-class meeting times here.

It would be great to share learnings across the groups. I’ll DM you to see how we might coordinate that.

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Awesome! Please feel free to reach out to for anything that I can help with.

The MLT slack group is also active with discussions if anyone would like to join the discussions-anyone/everyone is welcome :tea:

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Inviting the group to share the reviews since we read the book before it got officially published, but I don’t want that from keeping us from sharing our experience :pray:

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Really enjoyed fastbook, great blend of code, examples and math. Review questions at the end of each chapter are great to help you recap too.

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Hello everyone,
I’m studying the Tabular section from the fastbook,

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And when I try to run the cluster_columns I got an error,

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Any advise to solve this ?

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Will attend this run for sure @init_27. Waiting for this :slight_smile:

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Thank for doing this again. Will definitely be joining this time

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