I’ve put the new course up on course.fast.ai , and moved the old course to course17.fast.ai . I’ll be doing a launch announcement in a few hours. In the meantime, could you let me know if you come across any problems on either site, or have any suggestions for improvements?
Also if you have more detailed contributions, pull requests to the web site github are also welcomed! https://github.com/fastai/dlcert2
And there’s a whole community of thousands of other learners ready to help you with your journey &emdash; just head over to forums.fast.ai if you need any help, or just want to chat to other deep learning learners.
I may sound a bit picky but after looking quickly at the home of http://course.fast.ai/, and clicking on the tabs (Home, About, Getting Started, etc.), I couldn’t find an “obvious” link about “Installing the Fast.ai library, required for the course”.
Also, when it comes to installing the Fast.ai library (as it often pops up on KaggleNoobs), I am myself not capable of giving a clear answer with regards to the instructions on GitHub: which is it best to use today ?
First, clone fastai using git, Then, cd to the fastai folder and create the python environment: approach or
Thanks for the suggestions - picky is good! The recommended approach is conda env update for the course. The pip installer is only updated occasionally, FYI.
The first lesson links to @reshama’s paperspace installation instructions FYI. http://course.fast.ai/lessons/lesson1.html . Installing on your personal machine isn’t recommended except for particularly motivated and tenacious students who need an excuse for why they bought an expensive GPU box .
My take is, remembering my noobish path with a gaming GPU: if I read the Fastai GitHub page today, I would go straight for the easiest path of pip install fastai, not the conda env update one with 5+ instructions to enter, because it is not obvious that “The pip installer is only updated occasionally, FYI.”.
I realize I’m being a very picky beta-tester here but “been there, done that”, I’m the annoying fellow in your focus group
Sorry if I’m missing an obvious link, but I can’t find how to get to the Part 2 notebooks. (I had everything over on Amazon, but I’m trying to switch to Paperspace. From the git pull, I only get dl1 and ml1). Thanks!
@jeremy Your deep learning course is great! I want to take your Deep learning part II in Spring 2018. I applied through website, but haven’t received confirmation. Could you tell if there is something wrong?