In an attempt to show my appreciation for Jeremy and also be able to hear him talk about whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, I made a Jeremy Howard language model I’ve been calling MiniJereme. I trained a couple different models because it kind of became too good so I tried making it worse to get some funnier responses. Here are some of its predictions:
I also thought this would be a good time to share a little about me since I don’t have to worry about Jeremy kicking me out of the course/ SF study group for lying about having one year of “coding” experience
I grew up playing baseball, played in college, majored in business management, and minored in philosophy and psychology. After I graduated I knew I didn’t want to play baseball anymore, ended up studying to go to law school for a while, then last April decided to look up how to program. Somehow I stumbled on fastai and found myself taking part 1 v3 in person and going to the SF study group everyday (when I got there I didn’t know how to do comprehensions).
Since then I’ve been able to apply the lessons to things like coloring a photo of my grandmas husband (who passed away before I was born) and giving it to her for Christmas, an app for my cousin (who plays professional baseball) that analyzes his swings for him, and speech recognition for my sister who has autism. It makes me so happy that I’ve been able to give my grandma memories she might not have thought of, or maybe make my sister’s or cousin’s lives better by designing things specifically for them!
I will always be thankful to Jeremy, Rachel, and Sylvain for everything I’ve learned and how you all have changed my life. Learning programming and fastai has let me get ideas out of my head that would otherwise be stuck and it’s an amazing feeling. I hope one day I can give back to you three what you have given to me and a
for Sylvain