Fast.ai

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Fast.ai teaches deep learning to coders through courses, open-source software and a book, under the slogan of making neural nets uncool again. Its courses include Practical Deep Learning for Coders and How to Solve it With Code. On the software side it maintains the fastai library for PyTorch and nbdev, and there is a companion book on practical deep learning with fastai and PyTorch. The site notes coverage in The Economist, The New York Times and MIT Tech Review.

The homepage is also an active blog with more than 160 posts across advice, AI in society, courses, education, health and technical categories. Recent posts by co-founder Rachel Thomas cover her return to the field after a decade, AI in children's education, the pitfalls of vibe coding and close reading with LLMs, and there is a guide to Solveit, a platform designed to make iterative development faster. As an Education listing tagged for code and research, it suits self-taught practitioners more than no-code users.

The directory lists fast.ai as free; the site itself shows no pricing. Start with Practical Deep Learning for Coders and follow the blog for the latest research and opinion.

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