Draft of the Fast.ai Book
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#2Love the work Jeremy Howard does. Would definitely recommend the fastai course for anyone considering getting into ML.
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#3It always amazes me how bad some technical people is at basic promotion:
What is Fastai? Why do I need it?
Something as basic as an elevator speech that introduces your product in your github page and book intro can mean 10x or 100x more sales.
If you force people into having to search it for you, you have already lost most of them.
For this author it is as you already know everything about Fastai, but if you did, you would not be needing this book in the first place.
It happens a lot to technical writers because they have spent years thinking about a topic, so they could not put themselves in the shoes of someone who does not.
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#4> There are also "agglutinative languages", like Polish, which can add many morphemes together to create very long "words" which include a lot of separate pieces of information. [1]
Polish does not work this way. Source: I am Polish. Perhaps jph00 meant Turkish. Issue filed.
[1] https://github.com/fastai/fastbook/blob/master/10_nlp.ipynb
Re: Draft of the Fast.ai Book
#5Love the work Jeremy Howard does. Would definitely recommend the fastai course for anyone considering getting into ML.
Totally. Jeremy changed my life.
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#6It looks promising!
Minor point, a requirements.txt file or something would be convenient to get started quickly.
Re: Draft of the Fast.ai Book
#7It always amazes me how bad some technical people is at basic promotion: What is Fastai? Why do I need it? Something as basic as an elevator speech that introduces your product in your github page and book intro can mean 10x or 100x more sales. If you force people into having to search it for you, you have already lost most of them. For this author it is as you already know everything about Fastai, but if you did, yo…
This is a draft. I expect that, when the first finished version is ready, the authors will promote it effectively (IMO they are very good at promoting their courses at fast.ai).
Re: Draft of the Fast.ai Book
#8It always amazes me how bad some technical people is at basic promotion: What is Fastai? Why do I need it? Something as basic as an elevator speech that introduces your product in your github page and book intro can mean 10x or 100x more sales. If you force people into having to search it for you, you have already lost most of them. For this author it is as you already know everything about Fastai, but if you did, yo…
Fast.ai courses, software, and articles are frequently posted on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Few people here need to look it up; the basic promotion has already been done very effectively for the target audience. Besides, the intro chapter explains very clearly what the book is about and who it's for.
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#9> There are also "agglutinative languages", like Polish, which can add many morphemes together to create very long "words" which include a lot of separate pieces of information. [1] Polish does not work this way. Source: I am Polish. Perhaps jph00 meant Turkish. Issue filed. [1] https://github.com/fastai/fastbook/blob/master/10_nlp.ipynb
Doesn't German work this way?
Re: Draft of the Fast.ai Book
#10Love the work Jeremy Howard does. Would definitely recommend the fastai course for anyone considering getting into ML.
Same, long-time developer, I've followed the course and learned a lot (as long as you invest the effort ^^). Great content!