Would it teach principles of deep learning in the same depth as if I slogged through the YouTube videos of cs231n?
A legitimate question as I'm considering embarking on one of these two paths. As most of the people here my programming skills are more honed than my math skills so the fastai path looks like the easier road to take but I'm not sure if they both lead to the same place.
If you get serious about data science, you're going to end up reading/watching a lot of different resources. I'm a data scientist and I'd suggest starting with fast.ai and then following your interests elsewhere. The best book or course is the one you're going to finish.
A legitimate question as I'm considering embarking on one of these two paths. As most of the people here my programming skills are more honed than my math skills so the fastai path looks like the easier road to take but I'm not sure if they both lead to the same place.