The move from platform.ai to files.fast.ai could have been communicated better - sorry this impacted you. (We tried to highlight everywhere we could, but we can't change the video itself on YouTube unfortunately.)
We're redoing the whole of part 1 starting in October so this problem will be fully resolved then. Until then, follow the links on course.fast.ai or the forums, rather than what you see in the part 1 videos, or just remember to always replace platform.ai with course.fast.ai.
Oh and about the teaching philosophy video - until we posted that we had quite a few students express confusion about the top-down approach. After posting it, we've received a lot of positive feedback about it. I understand it's not helpful or interesting to everyone, but overall it seems to have been a successful addition for most.
I like the philosophy and I liked that you communicated it. I think you could have communicated it much more simply & compactly. I suggest you either hire an editor or take an editorial perspective to your content for the redo of part 1.
The former is better than the latter because they will benefit from having a different perspective to you and might be able to give feedback that you haven't considered.
thanks. I'd also like to suggest publishing a docker image as well for course software. Like you I like to also read / experiment when travelling and an offline workflow can often be handy.
It might be worth it to do an updated version of course #1 at some point, many of the examples will not work now if you try to follow along with the video because libraries (for example Keras) have been changed or upgraded.
(I know you have plenty to do, so really no pressure, this is simply a nice to have for newcomers that 'tuned in late'.)
Recently started the first course and wanted to say I am really loving it. Thank you and Rachel for your time and effort into making this topic more accessible.
Getting things set up for lesson 1/2 I noticed there were a few confusing hiccups along the way, I was wondering how do I get access to edit the wikipedia to smooth out a few issues I struggled with?
The forums are generally helpful but it's a lot to wade through and overwhelming for newer participants.
Earlier this year, the lessons stopped working for a while because the setup scripts ended up installing Keras 2, but the code was built for Keras 1.2. I was bitten by this in March, but I've been told everything works fine now (the setup scripts now use Keras 1.2 specifically).
Upgrading the lessons to Keras 2 is of course nice; I wonder if the videos will need to be re-recorded for that?
I had high hopes for them, but it turns out it just puts a tiny 'i' icon in the corner of the screen, with no way (AFAICT) to draw attention to it.
When we redo part 1 in October, we'll try to find a way to incorporate a clear link to an errata page or FAQ in each video, so that anyone with issues has one place to go.
Is this a volunteer effort on your part? I don't mean to be unnecessarily harsh in that case, but otherwise:
I'm not sure I can any more strongly say that you need to get this URL into these videos using whatever tools you can, whatever tools the platform provides. If someone misses it because of the ineffectiveness of the platform, you still get credit for trying!
I assume it should also be the very first thing in the video description at this point. You are losing many more people who would never take the time to share this issue with you due to stale content! (There's a reason it's half-way to the top on your announcement of part 2...)
We're redoing the whole of part 1 starting in October so this problem will be fully resolved then. Until then, follow the links on course.fast.ai or the forums, rather than what you see in the part 1 videos, or just remember to always replace platform.ai with course.fast.ai.