maybe interesting for GCP users, additional $500 credit: https://forums.fast.ai/t/platform-gcp/27375/140
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if someone is training of colab there is a easy way to use own dataset, if it is on Google Drive.
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@sayko @Blanche @Michal_w @tillia @piotr.czapla @radek @Gaurav85 @Emsi @wojtekcz
our hangout video call is today at 20.00. see you all there! join us using this link
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Anyone has link to Video Stream of lesson 3 ?
Michal
are you watching live? 
@miwojc
https://forums.fast.ai/t/new-guide-for-easy-web-app-deployment/29616/2
I saw you asking about situation, where there are not only cats/dogs (example) but also not-cats-dogs, other category.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/machinelearning/2018/05/01/how-to-develop-a-currency-detection-model-using-azure-machine-learning/
Here is example:
They added additional category ‘background’ and made it 5 times bigger then other categories.
“The backgrounds should be as diverse a set as possible.”
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If someone wants to get into Reinforcement Learning (I do 
) , OpenAI just launched https://spinningup.openai.com/ . It looks like a great resource.
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jeremy just tweeted yesterday that someone beat fastai team’s DAWNBench CIFAR10 training record by factor of 2.5x, interesting read:
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Thanks for sharing !!! Otherwise I would missed this and the article explains a lot !
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@sayko not to discourage you but have you seen this: https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html
I had this urge as well but after reading this I decided to wait a year or two and look at the play between OpenAI and DeepMind from the bench :).
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I’ll read it during this weekend, thanks! I also got this on my reading list:
I really liked David Ha “paper”:
and Large-Scale Study of Curiosity-Driven Learning paper:
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This is interesting talk from Yann LeCun on history of DL and future, also talks about the role of RL in the mix. Spoiler alert.
He compared DL to cake where base is self supervised learning, cream is supervised learning and cherry on the top is RL.
For RL fast forward to 31:50sec
@sayko @Blanche @Michal_w @tillia @piotr.czapla @radek @Gaurav85 @Emsi @wojtekcz and everyone who wants to join us
our hangout video call is today at 20.00. see you all there! join us using this link
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thank you @Blanche @tillia for the nice chat today. next week we will review all the great projects you mentioned today
Too bad I couldn’t join you guys tonight. I was travelling 
Yeah it was a good meetup. Next week same day same time
Sorry for not being present at the moment I’ve dived in into fast.text and somehow forgot to join… I will join you guys next time.
Btw. I’m not sure if you have seen the talk with Leslie Smith and Jeremy, the link posted by jeremy was broken here is the proper one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N-WUQwG1Lw
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Good interview. Shame audio wasn’t better…
Is anyone interested in taking part in this hackathon in poznań on 14.12? https://www.facebook.com/events/774439852904639/ We could form a team.
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