Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by kevinbird15 2548 days ago
I have taken all of the fast.ai courses available and they have been life-changing for me. The style of teaching that Jeremy uses really clicks with my learning style (Code then explain) and I have gone from knowing nothing about machine learning to finishing pretty highly on a few different competitions mostly involving NLP and Computer vision. I have been working on Super Resolution more recently and I started working as a Data Scientist at work which has been great. I actually didn't even have a ton of programming experience when I started fastai 3 years ago, but now I am pretty confident when I need to code something. I feel like I have moved through the stages from script-kiddie of data science to a point where I can actually intuitively understand what is happening and trust my instincts to change well-established architectures in ways that it works better for the problem that I am focusing on.