This Week at Udacity, November 10 edition
Just when you thought things couldn’t get more exciting, up jumps the Deep Learning Nanodegree Foundation program with new layers of amazing content!
And if that weren’t enough, the Udacity Deep Learning Team is opening up the classroom for a free preview!
Among the many innovative applications of deep learning you’ll get to experience in this free classroom preview is something called “Style Transfer”:
As an example of the kind of things you’ll be building with deep learning models, here is a really fun project, fast style transfer. Style transfer allows you to take famous paintings, and recreate your own images in their styles!
Along with providing detailed instructions on how to build this project, we encouraged visitors to do the following:
Share what you create on Twitter by using the hashtag #madewithudacity. If you share what you create, your image could be reshared on Udacity’s official account!
And it’s already happening!
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Deep Learning wasn’t the only launch this week. We were also super excited to introduce the next free courses in our ongoing collaboration with Facebook!
Exciting? You bet! But you know what was even more exciting? The hundreds—literally hundreds—of new Student Success stories we posted on our site this week!
So yes, it’s true. We’ve already shared some Tweets above. But still, that doesn’t mean we can’t still revel in our favorite feature, the …
Tweet of the Week!
That title should actually be plural, because I’m going to share 3 tweets! First, one of the most exciting things we ever get to witness: Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree program students testing their code on an actual self-driving car—ours!
Next up, just a totally classic example of a Lifelong Learner in action. No sooner does this individual complete a Nanodegree program, than they’re ready to start another one!
And finally, we’ll return to the topic of deep learning with a tweet from our founder, Sebastian Thrun!
And THAT … is This Week at Udacity!
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This post was written by Christopher Watkins, Senior Writer and Chief Words Officer, Udacity
