HackerReposA FIELD GUIDE TO OPEN SOURCE
ProSponsor the shelf♧ 0
← Back to top all-time
fastai
fastbook
Jupyter Notebook2020–2024
fastai / fastbook

fastbook

The fastai book, published as Jupyter Notebooks

16Distinct people
20Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
25.5KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

The fastai book, published as Jupyter Notebooks

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year20 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-02-28 22:02:37 UTC to 2024-01-18 05:56:53 UTC.

0369122020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 3 submissions, 8 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
UTC ranges include their start and exclude their end. Select a period to filter the source evidence.
PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1138
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

20 sources
I think FastAI lesson 3 in "Practical Deep Learning for Coders", has one of the most intuitive buildups of gradient descent and loss that I've seen. * Lecture [1] Book Chapter [2] It doesn't go into the math but I don't think that's a bad thing for beginners. If you want mathematical, 3blue1brown has a great series of videos [3] on the topic. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBBOjCiFcuo&t=1932s [2] https://github.com/fastai/fastbook/blob/master/04_mnist_basi... [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk * I've been messing around with this stuff since 2016 and have done a few different courses like the original Andrew Ng course and more.
In A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy
For the purpose of this question, you might search for pre-trained models that predict what you want to predict, and use them. https://modelzoo.co/ https://github.com/tensorflow/models https://cv.gluon.ai/model_zoo/index.html If there are no pre-trained models, you could take a look at fast.ai courses: https://course18.fast.ai/ml.html (for Machine Learning (ML)) https://www.fast.ai (for others "DL" (Deep Learning)) This courses is targeted towards programmers, and they dive right into the code to use ML (train models and use them) with Jupyter notebooks. They also have a book whose notebooks are here: https://github.com/fastai/fastbook If you have some maths background (high-school, or first year university), check out Stanford's CS229 with Andrew Ng: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rMiGQp3WXSh... I think it's better than
Read the rest
the Coursera version because he uses the board (whiteboard in 2018, blackboard in 2008-ish version)
In Ask HN: Easy way to incorporate machine learning into a project
We're experimenting with `nbdev`[0], especially in our effort to support fast.ai's[1] latest course 'fastbook'[2] on iko.ai[3], to test their notebooks faster. Though scheduling notebooks on our platform is a breeze[4][5] and we could launch the 20 notebooks really fast even manually and check their output while running (some fail that way as they required user interaction for FileUpload or something, and we decided to use fixtures). - [0]: https://github.com/fastai/nbdev - [1]: https://www.fast.ai/ - [2]: https://github.com/fastai/fastbook - [3]: https://iko.ai - [4]: https://iko.ai/docs/notebook/#long-running-notebooks - [5]: https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/Entg8COXcAIDdTI.mp4
In A notebook-free notebook or Jupyter dev env for coders

Showing the 15 most recent of 20 sources. Enable JavaScript to search and browse every indexed mention.

MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME

A few shortcuts

/
Search the collection
?
Open this guide
Esc
Close dialogs and navigation

Your saved repositories and interests stay in this browser.