In this special #TWIMLfest episode of the podcast, we’re joined by Jeremy Howard, Founder of Fast.ai.
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In our conversation with Jeremy, we discuss his career path, including his journey through the consulting world and how those experiences led him down the path to ML education, his thoughts on the current state of the machine learning adoption cycle, and if we’re at maximum capacity for deep learning use and capability. Of course, we dig into the newest version of the fast.ai framework and course, the reception of Jeremy’s book ‘Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch: AI Applications Without a PhD,’ and what’s missing from the machine learning education landscape. If you’ve missed our previous conversations with Jeremy, I encourage you to check them out here and here.
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Resources
- Check out Fast.ai
- #186 – The Fastai v1 Deep Learning Framework with Jeremy Howard
- #214 – Trends in Deep Learning with Jeremy Howard
- The Great ML Language (Un)Debate
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David George
So, in a nutshell, Mr. Howard believes…
* NeurIPS is a waste of time,
* GANs are over-hyped,
* Most papers are useless,
* RL is ridiculous,
* and if it’s not fastai, it’s not worth his trouble.
Wow. It’s unfortunate, because I had started the fastbook course, and now frankly I want nothing to do with this guy.
A word of advice Mr. Howard: a little humility goes a long way. But I guess humility is not in fastai, so it’s probably over-hyped, useless, ridiculous, and a waste of time…