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Hi folks - I'm the creator/teacher of this course. I'd be happy to answer any questions that you have about the course, learning deep learning in general, or the state of deep learning in 2022.
what is/will be the state of deep learning in 2022 or next 3-5 years? you hear/read so many news/articles in HN about decline of DL. Is that so?
Hi folks - I'm the creator/teacher of this course. I'd be happy to answer any questions that you have about the course, learning deep learning in general, or the state of deep learning in 2022.
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I deleted an earlier, angrier comment of mine. Can you explain this last sentence (which I understand to be insulting and without basis): > Howard is great with one problem: he kinda hates math. It might also seem that he ends up promoting anti-intellectualism.
He says repeatedly "You don't need math", and stuff like that. This is not insulting. That man is my hero, and I deeply respect him. But his 2019/20 course was riddled with such statements. He repeatedly said that one doesn't need math, and showed tools like drawing math symbols on a website to learn their names and ride on that. No further math needed. It's like you can wing it in Deep Learning without learning Math…
You don't need the math in the beginning to train a model and get first results. Later, you will need the math and Jeremy clearly knows the math.
He gives a great example: In sports, you don't start with learning about physiology and train individual muscles etc. (I paraphrase), you start playing basketball or baseball or soccer, and understand the overall game. And if you like it, you can then become better and better and get deeper and deeper.
It's not helpful to start with linear algebra if - what motivated you - was the application of ML. We lose people who could have otherwise become experts later.
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He says repeatedly "You don't need math", and stuff like that. This is not insulting. That man is my hero, and I deeply respect him. But his 2019/20 course was riddled with such statements. He repeatedly said that one doesn't need math, and showed tools like drawing math symbols on a website to learn their names and ride on that. No further math needed. It's like you can wing it in Deep Learning without learning Math…
I think you completely misunderstand his stance. You don't need the math in the beginning to train a model and get first results. Later, you will need the math and Jeremy clearly knows the math. He gives a great example: In sports, you don't start with learning about physiology and train individual muscles etc. (I paraphrase), you start playing basketball or baseball or soccer, and understand the overall game. And if…
what is/will be the state of deep learning in 2022 or next 3-5 years? you hear/read so many news/articles in HN about decline of DL. Is that so?
Most ML advancements will use DL at the core in interesting ways.
The amazing thing about these courses is how simple Jeremy (and team) are able to make machine learning. I didn't need to understand python dependency management in order to learn how to train an really good image classifier. Their approach helped me have lots of little wins, gave me confidence, and helped build the motivation to slog through the harder stuff when I needed to.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you @jph00. You changed my life immeasurably for the better. I learned that I AM good enough, I AM smart enough, and I CAN do hard things... I just had to find the right way to learn them. Your courses completely changed my perspective on what was possible for me and opened the door to some of my life's greatest passions.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I deleted an earlier, angrier comment of mine. Can you explain this last sentence (which I understand to be insulting and without basis): > Howard is great with one problem: he kinda hates math. It might also seem that he ends up promoting anti-intellectualism.
He says repeatedly "You don't need math", and stuff like that. This is not insulting. That man is my hero, and I deeply respect him. But his 2019/20 course was riddled with such statements. He repeatedly said that one doesn't need math, and showed tools like drawing math symbols on a website to learn their names and ride on that. No further math needed. It's like you can wing it in Deep Learning without learning Math…
I am so grateful the FastAI team exists. It wasn't until I discovered their "Machine Learning for Coders" course that I really started to grok ML. I was in grad school trying to pivot my career from finance to data science. I didn't come from a computer science / math background and things just weren't clicking for me. I remember feeling angry, embarrassed, dumb, and overall that I wasn't smart enough to learn this s…
Hi folks - I'm the creator/teacher of this course. I'd be happy to answer any questions that you have about the course, learning deep learning in general, or the state of deep learning in 2022.