Comment by rizpanjwani
4 years ago
as someone new to ML/DL where can I get started? would you recommend the Fast AI course using pytorch based libraries or something else that focuses on tensorflow?
4 years ago
as someone new to ML/DL where can I get started? would you recommend the Fast AI course using pytorch based libraries or something else that focuses on tensorflow?
The key is to find something you think is fun, and play with it. It doesn’t matter what it’s written in. I don’t think it would be fun to take a course, so I never did. But it was a blast to get all this working: https://youtube.com/channel/UCqpwMaJbb-zj-MlMkRd28QQ
You can see my early videos were crude meme attempts, and eventually it morphed to 100 TPU training. You can’t really predict the things that you’ll like, so don’t try.
What’s fun to you? That’s the question to focus on. For me, it was language modeling and image generation, which I learned from https://gwern.net/GPT-2 and Peter Baylor’s’ stylegan notebook, respectively. Then I transitioned to audio memes https://youtu.be/koU3L7WBz_s and kept going from there.
Tensorflow is bullshit, pytorch is different bullshit, Jax is pretty friggin awesome but still has one or two flecks of bs. But none of it feels hard to deal with, because it’s all an enormous box of legos; as long as you chase your interests, you’ll never* feel like it’s annoying.
* you’ll be annoyed all the time, but at least you’ll keep going.