mothcamp

In addition to being thorough, it has personality.

I positioned myself as someone seeking help, and the bot came across like an HR person play-acting empathy and care, and couldn't wait for me to leave the office. It came down to (1) do your research, (2) make a list, (3) take courses, (4) be aware of barriers.

Just a place to host my NLP course. Don't know whether I'll do anything further.

So the ideal outcome is someone who gets an end-to-end view from theory/concept to implementation.

If someone just wants to learn how to use tools/frameworks, I'd stick to the Colab notebooks. If someone's already experienced in ML and wants to learn something NLP-specific, I'd skip around to see what's interesting.

Hope you find the transformers module useful!

Or maybe skip all that and outsource it to GPT: https://imgur.com/a/BQv6C3K

Sort of like an algorithmic trader knowing market microstructure intimately (versus only pure statistics).

Bender's book is NOT an end-to-end text though imo. It's more a central jumping off point. So you can read about a concept and if it sounds interesting, search more about it.

I published part one of my free NLP course. The course is intended to help anyone who knows Python and a bit of math go from the very basics all the way to today's mainstream models and frameworks.

I strive to balance theory and practice and so every module consists of detailed explanations and slides along with a Colab notebook (in most modules) putting the theory into practice.

In part one, we cover text preprocessing, how to turn text into numbers, and multiple ways to classify and search text using "classical" approaches. And along the way, we'll pick up useful bits on how to use tools such as spaCy and scikit-learn.

No registration required: https://www.nlpdemystified.org/