Interview with Jeremy Howard | fast.ai | Kaggle | Machine Learning Research
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In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews Jeremy Howard: Co-Founder at fast.ai and Guru to the complete fast.ai community.
They talk all about Jeremy's journey into through the field as a Consultant to Founder to Kaggle Rank 1 followed by founding fast.ai.
They also discuss all about the fast.ai forums: The research that goes into it, how Jeremy and Sylvain collaborate on research and how the course is prepared.
Links:
fast.ai course: https://course.fast.ai
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Interview with Jason Antic (Creator of DeOldify): https://sanyambhutani.com/interview-w...
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Intro track:
Flow by LiQWYD / liqwyd
OUTLINE:
0:00 - Start
3:10 - Management Consulting
9:43 - Programming Career
11:12 - Career as Founder
15:38 - Kaggle
28:31 - Founding Enlitic
34:43 - Founding fast.ai
38:03 - Journey as an Educator
41:02 - Development of the course
44:08 - Research at fast.ai
48:32 - Tenacity in ML
50:33 - Finding Obscure Papers
53:29 - Writing the library
53:03 - fast.ai Book
56:03 - Sylvain
59:14 - fastai versions
1:02:57 - Self Learning
1:14:38 - Favourite Student Project