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Deep Learning · Practical Course

Practical Deep Learning for Coders (fast.ai)

Jeremy Howard & Rachel Thomas · 2024

🆓 FreeIntermediate★★★★★0 pages

Free course + textbook teaching deep learning top-down. Build models first, understand theory later. Includes PyTorch and fastai library.

Why you should read this
The most practical DL course in the world. You build a state-of-the-art image classifier in lesson 1.

Key Topics

Image ClassificationNLPTabular DataCollaborative FilteringEthicsDeploymentfastai Library

Chapters (8)

1Your First Model8 key concepts

Build a pet breed classifier in 5 lines

2From Model to Production10 key concepts

Deployment, web apps, APIs

3Data Ethics8 key concepts

Bias, fairness, feedback loops

4Under the Hood14 key concepts

SGD, loss functions, from-scratch neural net

5Image Classification12 key concepts

Transfer learning, data augmentation, fine-tuning

6Other Vision10 key concepts

Segmentation, object detection, keypoints

7NLP12 key concepts

Text classification, language models

8Tabular & Collaborative10 key concepts

Embeddings, recommendation systems

Real-World Applications
  • Medical image diagnosis
  • Satellite image classification
  • Customer churn prediction
Best For
Developers entering MLResearchers wanting practical skillsStartup engineers

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