Fast.ai: Up to speed with the best of Deep Learning

[Update April 15, 2019] This blog post covers the 2018 course which you can find here. (Copyright fast.ai) Most approaches teaching machine and deep learning can be cumbersome and time-consuming: Stepping through all the details of (basic) linear algebra, activation functions and slowly building a neural network, so that after a few weeks/months, you are able to build an image classifier, if you have actually powered through… Do not get me wrong, understanding the intuition and fundamentals of linear algebra and neural networks are an important and invaluable asset in achieving great results.

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9 awesome artificial intelligence and machine learning podcasts you should subscribe to

Photo by Jonathan Velasquez on Unsplash 0. Introduction I listen to a lot of podcasts while running or in the car and a great deal of those are related to machine learning and artificial intelligence, each providing their own take on the subjects. Whether you are new or experienced, a practioner or just interested in real-world applications, there is probably a podcast that suites your needs and interests. In this blog post, I have listed the podcasts that I listen to on a regular basis, described what they are about and added my favorite episode.

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Adventures in deep learning

"Artificial intelligence is the new electricity." (Andrew Ng) "Deep learning is eating the world." If those did not catch your breath, they sure did mine. While I have always had an interest in artificial antelligence and neural networks - having taken some classes at university in 2007, it sure has been a while since I have done anything remotely real with it. Even more so, it sure looks like machine learning has come a very long way since then as well.

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