Day 2 - Finishing up the first lesson from fastai course

March 2, 2024 (9mo ago)

Today, I completed the introductory "Is it a bird?" notebook and got pretty stoked to see how the resnet18 model can generate predictions with such high accuracy with just a few lines of code. I'm really interested in how all this works under the hood and excited to dig deeper.

Fine tuning resnet18 using fastai

I also finished the first chapter of the book, which covered similar material to the video and notebook. According to the authors, it provides a deeper understanding of the concepts, which I find quite engaging thus far.

Sadly I won't have more time to dedicate to learning today. But, I believe that even a little bit of progress is better than none at all.

What I learned:

  • How to use the resnet18 model to fine-tune it to a new dataset

Time commitment:

Total: 1 hour