Rachel Thomas
Writer on AI, science, education, and ethics; co-founder of fast.ai and QUT professor of practice
Rachel Thomas writes a blog on AI, science, education, and ethics, including essays on machine learning in medicine and biology and on AI hype. Rachel is a professor of practice at Queensland University of Technology's Centre for Data Science and co-founded fast.ai, whose free Practical Deep Learning for Coders course teaches deep learning to coders. Rachel was the founding director of the University of San Francisco Center for Applied Data Ethics, created and taught a data ethics course, and wrote book chapters including for Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch.123
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Rachel Thomas, PhD (blog) (external site: rachel.fast.ai)Show, channel, or publication
Writes blog posts on AI, science, education, and ethics, including machine learning in medicine and biology.2
Practical Deep Learning for Coders (fast.ai course) (external site: course.fast.ai)Show, channel, or publication
Co-founded the fast.ai course, which the fast.ai About page describes as a free course for coders.13
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