fastai VS nbdev

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

One example I've seen is ML/DL folks using jupyter notebooks to develop DL libraries in jupyter notebooks, see https://github.com/fastai/nbdev

- https://github.com/fastai/nbdev: Increase developer productivity by 10x with a new exploratory programming workflow.

9. Nbdev: Boost developer productivity with an exploratory programming workflow - https://nbdev.fast.ai/

See if you like nbdev way of working with data through python and jupyter. nbdev is an optional part that will create python packages from jupyter notebooks. Also even the simple tutorials are opinionated and will guide you to unit test your code and write CICD pipelines.

You probably don’t have time for this for the purposes of your task, but I will also throw in the recommendation of nbdev especially if you’re a Python person. I haven’t had a project to use it on yet, but I’ve gone through the docs and the walkthrough and it seems like a great framework for starting potential projects with all the infrastructure needed for if/when they eventually get big and need all the packaging and stuff

nbdev: jupyter notebooks -> python package

Take a look at https://github.com/fastai/nbdev - haven't used it but supposedly the whole if fast.ai library was written that way. It sounds like a natural direction in your scenario - allowing your to keep working in a familiar environment and still producing production ready code (will, at least in paper 😅)