<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>cs702</author><text>I have no questions, but feel compelled to say &lt;i&gt;thank you&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been a ML&amp;#x2F;DL practitioner for the past five-plus years, and first watched one of your lectures a bit over a year ago.  All I remember thinking is that a &lt;i&gt;wealth&lt;/i&gt; of practical knowledge that had taken me &lt;i&gt;years&lt;/i&gt; to acquire was there for the taking, for free, for anyone who cared to look.&lt;p&gt;Since then, I have been recommending these courses to anyone who asks me for advice for learning about deep learning.  You -- and Rachel Thomas -- have created &lt;i&gt;by far the easiest and fastest path&lt;/i&gt; for a wide range of people to gain deep learning expertise.&lt;p&gt;In fact, I&amp;#x27;m so sure the new lectures will contain &lt;i&gt;valuable nuggets of know-how&lt;/i&gt; that even though I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about deep learning (and an expert in my narrow domain of interest), I will make it a point to find time to watch all the updated lectures.&lt;p&gt;Kudos!</text><parent_chain><item><author>jph00</author><text>Jeremy from fast.ai here. Happy to answer any questions about the course, fastai, or anything else relevant!&lt;p&gt;BTW the 2018 version of the course is being discussed in this forum, for those interested: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forums.fast.ai&amp;#x2F;c&amp;#x2F;part1-v2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forums.fast.ai&amp;#x2F;c&amp;#x2F;part1-v2&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2018</title><url>http://www.fast.ai/2018/01/26/v2-launch/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>testdeep</author><text>Hi jeremy,&lt;p&gt;I am a web dev, JS being my first lang of choice :-), and i have been trying to get into machine learning&amp;#x2F;deep learning&amp;#x2F;AI, but I am having a information overload.&lt;p&gt;I have 0 knowledge about this field, so my question is should i just start with machine learning, instead of jumping right into deep learning ? Or is it ok to jump right into deep learning and is it possible to do all the stuff done with machine learning with deep learning ?&lt;p&gt;Just like when a person who shows an interest on learning to code I refer them to Python instead of C++, what do you recommend ?</text><parent_chain><item><author>jph00</author><text>Jeremy from fast.ai here. Happy to answer any questions about the course, fastai, or anything else relevant!&lt;p&gt;BTW the 2018 version of the course is being discussed in this forum, for those interested: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forums.fast.ai&amp;#x2F;c&amp;#x2F;part1-v2&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forums.fast.ai&amp;#x2F;c&amp;#x2F;part1-v2&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Practical Deep Learning for Coders 2018</title><url>http://www.fast.ai/2018/01/26/v2-launch/</url></story>