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 **[View the docs here](https://williamfalcon.github.io/pytorch-lightning/)**
 
 ## What is it?  
-Keras is too abstract for researchers. Lightning abstracts the full training loop but gives you control in the critical points.   
+Keras and fast.ai are too abstract for researchers. Lightning abstracts the full training loop but gives you control in the critical points.   
 
 
 ## Why do I want to use lightning?
-Because you want to use best practices and get gpu training, multi-node training, checkpointing, mixed-precision, etc... for free.
+Because you want to use best practices and get gpu training, multi-node training, checkpointing, mixed-precision, etc... for free, but still want granular control of the meat of the training, validation and testing loops.
 
 To use lightning do 2 things:  
 1. [Define a trainer](https://github.com/williamFalcon/pytorch-lightning/blob/master/docs/source/examples/basic_trainer.py) (which will run ALL your models).