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Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion

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Re: Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion

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Hi folks. Nice to see our new free (and ad-free) course here on HN! This course is for folks that are already comfortable training neural nets and understand the basic ideas of SGD, cross-entropy, embeddings, etc. It will help you both understand these foundations more deeply, since you'll be creating everything from scratch (i.e. from only Python and its standard library), and to understand modern generative modeling approaches.

We study and implement a lot of papers, including many that came out during the course, which is a great way to get practice and get comfortable with reading deep learning literature.

If you need to get up to speed on the foundations first, you should start with part 1 of the course, which is here: https://course.fast.ai

If you've got any questions about the course, generative modeling, or deep learning in general, feel free to ask!

Re: Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion

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post #4

Hi folks. Nice to see our new free (and ad-free) course here on HN! This course is for folks that are already comfortable training neural nets and understand the basic ideas of SGD, cross-entropy, embeddings, etc. It will help you both understand these foundations more deeply, since you'll be creating everything from scratch (i.e. from only Python and its standard library), and to understand modern generative modelin…

Thanks Jeremy for putting this course out for everyone, looking forward to completing it.

Re: Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion

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post #4

Hi folks. Nice to see our new free (and ad-free) course here on HN! This course is for folks that are already comfortable training neural nets and understand the basic ideas of SGD, cross-entropy, embeddings, etc. It will help you both understand these foundations more deeply, since you'll be creating everything from scratch (i.e. from only Python and its standard library), and to understand modern generative modelin…

Thank you Jeremy, it is an amazing course!

Re: Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion

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post #4

Hi folks. Nice to see our new free (and ad-free) course here on HN! This course is for folks that are already comfortable training neural nets and understand the basic ideas of SGD, cross-entropy, embeddings, etc. It will help you both understand these foundations more deeply, since you'll be creating everything from scratch (i.e. from only Python and its standard library), and to understand modern generative modelin…

Thanks Jeremy, this looks awesome. Do you think there's much value in learning much of the math in addition to the material in these courses?

Re: Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion

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This is cool, but I have a fundamental question. Why learn machine learning when all the machines will learn how to create and control themselves and powerful elites will offload the burden of governments to control us?

Or we race ourselves to fulfill the last jobs on earth? Is this progress for humanity or enslavement and the end of our species? I am serious. This question is honest. Maybe my IQ is too low to understand the logic of this innovation.

Maybe I have seen too much tech implementation doing bad stuff to humans, who knows? Please, enlighten me.

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