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Deep Learning with fastai Cookbook

By : Mark Ryan
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Deep Learning with fastai Cookbook

By: Mark Ryan

Overview of this book

fastai is an easy-to-use deep learning framework built on top of PyTorch that lets you rapidly create complete deep learning solutions with as few as 10 lines of code. Both predominant low-level deep learning frameworks, TensorFlow and PyTorch, require a lot of code, even for straightforward applications. In contrast, fastai handles the messy details for you and lets you focus on applying deep learning to actually solve problems. The book begins by summarizing the value of fastai and showing you how to create a simple 'hello world' deep learning application with fastai. You'll then learn how to use fastai for all four application areas that the framework explicitly supports: tabular data, text data (NLP), recommender systems, and vision data. As you advance, you'll work through a series of practical examples that illustrate how to create real-world applications of each type. Next, you'll learn how to deploy fastai models, including creating a simple web application that predicts what object is depicted in an image. The book wraps up with an overview of the advanced features of fastai. By the end of this fastai book, you'll be able to create your own deep learning applications using fastai. You'll also have learned how to use fastai to prepare raw datasets, explore datasets, train deep learning models, and deploy trained models.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Making your model deployments available to others

In Chapter 7, Deployment and Model Maintenance, you deployed a couple of fastai models. To get a prediction, you pointed your browser to localhost:5000 and that opened up home.html where you set your scoring parameters, requested a prediction, and then got a prediction back in show-prediction.html. All this happened on your local system. Through the web deployments done in Chapter 7, Deployment and Model Maintenance, you can only get to the deployment on your local system because localhost is only accessible on your local system. What if you wanted to share these deployments with friends to allow them to try out your models on their own computers?

The simplest way to do this is using a tool called ngrok that lets you share localhost on your computer with people working on other computers. In this recipe, we will go through steps that show you how to use ngrok to make your deployments available to others.

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