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What are the math prerequisites? Couldn't find anything in about page [0], all it says is:

> We assume that everyone taking this course has at least one year of coding experience.

so, no math background required? Would really appreciate an input from someone who has done the course

[0] - http://course.fast.ai/about.html

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There is a Computational Linear Algebra class taught by one of the founders of fast.ai, but I don't think it's a prerequisite necessarily [0]. I've been meaning to take it - I can't comment on its quality.

[0] https://github.com/fastai/numerical-linear-algebra/blob/mast...

I forget where but it used to say roughly a high school level of math understanding. You don't have to do a lot of math in the program but it can be helpful for understanding the concepts. I am very poor at math ( never did much math past high school and that ended in 2009 ), and was able to work through the course, though the course in general is not easy.

I really recommend 3Blue1Brown youtube series on linear algebra if you are struggling with some of the math concepts. They have great explanations and great visualizations.

Maybe just start watching it if you are interested in learning, instead of trying to put yourself in a box that you might not have the math skills needed for it.

It is free, you have nothing to lose. If the topic interests you than I am sure you will figure it out. You can always google a math concept that confuses you. There isn't a test and no one will even know.

> It is free

Just as a warning for anyone price-sensitive interested in taking this course, its cost is non-zero due to cloud costs. It is free to audit though! I'm not trying to dissuade anyone; it is just good to know going into it.

I did manage to setup the notebook and cuda on my local machine. I have an older GTX card.

That is true for any deep learning course. You need a GPU to run SOTA algorithms.

We can use Google Colab instead, right? They're free.

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