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by mto 2797 days ago
Personally I liked Andrew Ng’s course much more. While fast.ai seems to have some practical gems hidden, it's just so much noise surrounding it.

So much time wasted just by stating over and over again why their top down approach is so great. And even more with how to install this and that, dealing with the command line, setting up stuff, using AWS etc. Things the "coders" the course is targeted at should be able to do anyway.

I always found myself jumping around the videos to find the useful parts (with the help of the time markers in the wiki) but then dropped it every time and did Andrew Ng’s course in combination with "the" deep learning book instead. They just have much less noise.