(2) NAME_1 — The Story of fast.ai and Why Python Is Not the Future of ML - YouTube
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(00:02) [Music] you're listening to gradient descent a show where we learn about making machine learning models work in the real world i'm your host NAME_2 NAME_3 NAME_1 created the fastai course which is maybe the most popular course to learn machine learning and there are a lot out there he's also the author of the book deep learning for coders with fastai and pytorch and in that process he made the fastai library which lots of people use independently to write deep learning code before that he was the ceo and
(00:36) co-founder of analytic an exciting startup that applies deep learning to healthcare applications and before that he was the president of kaggle one of the most exciting earliest machine learning companies i'm super excited to talk to him so NAME_4 it's nice to talk to you and in preparing the questions i kind of realized that um every time i've talked to you there's been kind of a few gems that i've remembered that i would never think to ask about like one time you told me about how you learned chinese and another time you
(01:02) gave me um dad parenting advice like very specific advice that's been actually super um helpful so it was kind of funny hey tell me what what dad parenting advice worked out well what you told me was um when you change diapers use a blow dryer to change a um a really frustrating experience into like a really joyful experience and it's like such good advice i don't know how you i guess i can imagine how you thought of it but it's yeah yeah no they love the whooshing sound they love the warmth i'm kind of
(01:31) obsessed about dad things so i'm always happy to talk about bad things that is this podcast can we start with that now now that my daughter's eight months old do you have any any suggestions for this oh my goodness eight months old you know it's like the same with any kind of learning it's all about consistency so i think that the main thing we did right with NAME_5 was just you know this delightful child now is we were just super consistent like if we said like you can't have x unless you do y
(01:57) we would never do x you know give her x if you didn't do y and if we're like if you want to take your scooter down to the bottom of the road you have to carry it back up again we read this great book that was saying like if you're not consistent it becomes like this thing like it's like a gambler it's like sometimes y