fastai VS fastbook

Jeremy Howard's YouTube Channel - Jeremy maintains the fastai library, which is an excellent package that will help anyone build complicated ML architectures in minimum time. His YouTube Channel has a number of free courses which do an amazing job of covering a variety of ML topics, and he also maintains a very active forum for people studying ML.

To create the AI we will use fastai. This is a python library, which is build on top of pytorch. No worries, you don't need to know how to code python. We will learn how this stuff works along the way :)

You may know fast.ai as a popular deep learning course. There is also a deep learning library with the same name (https://github.com/fastai/fastai) as well as software development tools like nbdev (https://nbdev.fast.ai/).

fast.ai has been offering education and tools for free for over 7 years, and has been approached by many companies asking for help. This program offers an avenue for business to get relevant professional services and support.

The "fastai" course is free, and does a really nice job walking you through building simple neural nets from the ground up:

https://github.com/fastai/fastai

What's going on here is the exact same thing, just much, much larger.

Development NB: https://github.com/fastai/fastai/blob/master/nbs/09_vision.augment.ipynb

There is already a ton of momentum around automating ML workflows. I would suggest you contribute to a preexisting project like, for instance, PyTorch Lightning or fast.ai.

If you are unaware of what fastai is, its official description is:

Also, not a single docstring to document any code in the library - https://github.com/fastai/fastai/blob/master/fastai/vision/learner.py

This chapter focuses on defining the DataLoader classes and a Bing Image Search downloader that is provided with the fastai library. We're not going to implement a Bing downloader. That is too much work for something that could be a crate on its own. Please feel free to write such a crate, though, the world could use one.

The book is available online here The course is accessible here

Fastai Lesson 2 notebook

I recently read the FastAI book from O'Reilly, which is also published as a series of notebooks on GitHub here. I personally liked it because it shows how to obtain a working model trained with modern techniques without delving too much in the low-level details.

I recommend fastai-fastbook. I just started myself though it’s a coupled with tools and a way of working that may help you including being and to create and publish python packages from a jupyter notebook using nbdev

The fastai book actually makes a nice comparison between the systems described in PDP and modern deep learning.

> In fact, the approach laid out in PDP is very similar to the approach used in today's neural networks.

From: https://github.com/fastai/fastbook/blob/master/01_intro.ipyn...

I’m a fan of fast book by fastai.