[Simon_O_Rourke]

> When I was younger and didn't work full time + have other commitments

I second this - while both are great courses, I found I could only dedicate very short amounts of time recently to any kind of study, and going from the ground-up more thoroughly seemed like I was making no progress. The fast.ai top down approach worked a bit better for me for those reasons, otherwise it would have been interesting starting with the deep dive.

[saynay]

Yeah, this is probably the reason it worked better for me as well. I had bounced off of some other courses because I didn't have the time to dedicate 16+ hours of lectures before I would get to the fruit of all that foundational knowledge. Starting with some high-level abstractions, then digging down into how each of those abstractions ticked, kept the number of concepts I had to remember at once to something more manageable while dealing with distractions like a full-time job.