Interview with Zachary Mueller | Fast.ai: The course and New Library | SGs and Top Down Learning

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Correction: Apologies and correction: Zach is a student at the University of West Florida, not university of Washington

In this episode, Sanyam Bhutani interviews his peer from the fast.ai community: Zachary Mueller, who's a student at the University of West Florida, currently pursuing his bachelor's degree in software design and development.

In this interview they talk all about fast.ai the course and fast.ai V2 the upcoming library along with all about Zach's experience with fast.ai, his journey into deep learning and fast.ai, and the projects that he's built while going through the course.

They also talked about a study group that Zach has now been running for a few weeks, that builds on top of fast.ai V2 the new library on which the course is yet to come out.

They also talked a lot about the top down learning approach and how can you go about learning fast.ai.

Links:

Study Group by Zach: https://forums.fast.ai/t/a-walk-with-fastai2-study-group-and-online-lectures-megathread/59929

Practical-Deep-Learning-for-Coders-2.0: https://github.com/muellerzr/Practical-Deep-Learning-for-Coders-2.0

Zach's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmKoQOD8uBqsRS8XDdSgrlQ

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