Jeremy Howard explains how neural networks work by building a basic model and implementing a neural net in Excel.
Introduction and survey
"Lesson 0" How to fast.ai
How to do a fastai lesson
How to not self-study
Highest voted student work
Pets breeds detector
Paperspace
JupyterLab
Make a better pet detector
Comparison of all (image) models
Try out new models
Get the categories of a model
What’s in the model
What does model architecture look like
Parameters of a model
Create a general quadratic function
Fit a function by good hands and eyes
Loss functions
Automate the search of parameters for better loss
The mathematical functions
ReLu: Rectified linear function
Infinitely complex function
A chart of all image models compared
Do I have enough data?
Interpret gradients in unit?
Learning rate
Matrix multiplication
Build a regression model in spreadsheet
Build a neuralnet by adding two regression models
Matrix multiplication makes training faster
Watch out! it’s chapter 4
Create dummy variables of 3 classes
Taste NLP
fastai NLP library vs Hugging Face library
Homework to prepare you for the next lesson
Many thanks to bencoman, wyquek, Raymond Wu, and fmussari on forums.fast.ai for writing the transcript.
Timestamps thanks to "Daniel 深度碎片" on forums.fast.ai.
Why it's here
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What people seem to be able to do with Excel never ceases to boggle/amaze.
I was watching an AI course and the lecturer implemented a neural net in Excel.
Meanwhile my skills peak at importing a CSV and resizing the columns and rows. Protip, you can resize rows+columns at the same time by highlighting all and double clicking the top left corner.