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0 pointsjph005y ago0 comments

Honestly we don't get much of a cut, so don't worry about it too much either way. Although it's nice to support O'Reilly, since they were kind enough to let us make it all available for free.

Frankly though, there are much more important areas right now that could really use some extra money, so I'd rather see folks donate to a good cause, if they don't actually need the paper or kindle book... :)

I've been giving my teaching stipend from university to the Fred Hollow Foundation: https://www.hollows.org/ . They can give sight back to many people that are blind, for around US$25.

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paultopia5y ago· 2 in thread

Thank you! This is such a great service to the community, really, all of it.

While you're here---do you have advice on the course vs the book? I'm a person who really prefers to learn via writing rather than via video, but if there's stuff in the course that people who use the book can't really experience...

jph00OP5y ago

Use both. The book will encourage you to work through the notebooks. You can watch the first video and see if it adds anything for you - if it doesn't, skip the rest.

They cover basically the same material. (Except that the course covers only half the book - the rest is planned for a part 2 course later.)

paultopia5y ago

Thank you!

aaronAgain5y ago

That is a very humbling response. I will be donating to Fred Hollow Foundation. Thanks for the fastai work.

Edit: Donated. And reported a bug in their donation process that almost preventing me from being successful.

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