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Ask HN: Is fast.ai's "Deep Learning for Coders" still relevant in 2025?

5•hedgehog0•5h ago
Dear all,

I learned some basic ML from Andrew Ng's Coursera course more than 10 years ago, recently I graduated from the Math Master program and have some free time in my hand, so I am thinking about picking up ML/DL again.

In [Yacine's video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph6PIchDOcQ), he mentioned [fast.ai's course](https://course.fast.ai/), which I heard of in the past but didn't look into too much. The table of contents of [the book](https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Learning-Coders-fastai-PyTorch/dp/1492045527) looks pretty solid, but it was published in 2020, so I was wondering given the pace of AI development, do you think this book or course series is still a good choice and relevant for today's learners?

*To provide more context about me*: I did math major and CS minor (with Python background) during undergrad but have never taken any ML/DL courses (other than that Coursera one), and I just finished the Master program in math, though I have background and always have interests in graph theory, combinatorics, and theoretical computer science.

I have two books "Hands-on Machine Learning" by Geron and "Hands-on LLMs" by Alammar and Grootendorst, and plan to finish Stanford's CS224N and CS336 and CMU's DL systems when I have enough background knowledges. I am interested in building and improving intelligent systems such as DeepProver and AlphaProof that can be used to improve math proof/research.

Thank you a lot!

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