Chapter 4 of our book (covering the foundations of deep learning) is, for most people, the most challenging. It covers a lot of math and coding concepts very quickly.
This series from @strickvl is an amazing resource to help you understand how a neural net really works:
This week I wanted to really make sure I grasped what was going on in ch 4 of the @fastdotai book, so I put my study hat on. 🤓 Writing helps me understand so I split the things I learned into separate blog posts. I reimplemented the methods with the Fashion MNIST dataset.
We just released a new version of fastai that's now compatible with the latest @PyTorch 2.2.
h/t @benjamin_warner
Either: "pip install -U fastai" or "conda install -c fastai fastai" to upgrade.
The new `fastcore.basics` provides a lot of great functionality, but is *really* lightweight (only 0.02 secs to import, and the entire `fastcore` has no deps other than python itself)
New #fastai release: v2.7.0. github.com/fastai/fastai/…
Breaking changes
- Distributed training now uses Hugging Face Accelerate, rather than fastai's launcher.
Distributed training is now supported in a notebook -- see [this tutorial](https://docs.f…
New #fastai release: v2.7.12. github.com/fastai/fastai/…
New Features
- PyTorch 2.0 compatibility, thanks to @benjamin_warner
- Pytorch 2.0 compiler compatibility, thanks to ggosline
- Better version support for `TensorBase.new_empty`, thanks to @benj…
New #fastai release: v2.0.18. github.com/fastai/fastai/…
2.0.18
### Forthcoming breaking changes
The next version of fastai will be 2.1. It will require PyTorch 1.7, which has significant foundational changes. It should not require any code chang…
We've just released fastai 2.2. This contains some fairly minor breaking changes, which should only impact you if you write your own callbacks, or use custom RNN code.
The main feature is improved FP16 training. 1/
Anyone got a bit of code that would make it easy to use the Youtube Data API to upload whisper-generated captions directly to Youtube?
Feels like this whole process could probably be automated pretty easily! :D