New Fast.ai Course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing

I just started the fast.ai MOOC (practical deep learning for coders), and boy, I much prefer reading through a tutorial than sitting through hours upon hours of videos. I looked for transcripts and/or a written version of the content and came up empty-handed.

Can anyone recommend a solid, written, introduction, covering similar material?

Re: New Fast.ai Course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing

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Post by sputknick » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 1:18 PM UTC

jahbrewski wrote: post #6

I just started the fast.ai MOOC (practical deep learning for coders), and boy, I much prefer reading through a tutorial than sitting through hours upon hours of videos. I looked for transcripts and/or a written version of the content and came up empty-handed. Can anyone recommend a solid, written, introduction, covering similar material?

Maybe read their code and it's associated comments would help you? One of the benefits of using notebooks over a traditional IDE is that code is segmented into blocks. For me it makes it easier to read. it's like "ok, this cell will do this to our data, then this next cell will do this to our data". It's been more than a year since I took their class, and what I did to help with comprehension of the videos was to take notes in the individual cells while following the videos.

Re: New Fast.ai Course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing

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Post by jsty » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 1:33 PM UTC

jahbrewski wrote: post #6

I just started the fast.ai MOOC (practical deep learning for coders), and boy, I much prefer reading through a tutorial than sitting through hours upon hours of videos. I looked for transcripts and/or a written version of the content and came up empty-handed. Can anyone recommend a solid, written, introduction, covering similar material?

For at least some of the lessons there are pretty comprehensive notes / transcripts linked in the column on the right.

E.g. for https://course.fast.ai/videos/?lesson=2 there is https://github.com/hiromis/notes/blob/master/Lesson2.md

Re: New Fast.ai Course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing

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Post by source99 » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 2:32 PM UTC

sputknick wrote: post #7

jahbrewski wrote: post #6

I just started the fast.ai MOOC (practical deep learning for coders), and boy, I much prefer reading through a tutorial than sitting through hours upon hours of videos. I looked for transcripts and/or a written version of the content and came up empty-handed. Can anyone recommend a solid, written, introduction, covering similar material?

Maybe read their code and it's associated comments would help you? One of the benefits of using notebooks over a traditional IDE is that code is segmented into blocks. For me it makes it easier to read. it's like "ok, this cell will do this to our data, then this next cell will do this to our data". It's been more than a year since I took their class, and what I did to help with comprehension of the videos was to tak…

Just my opinion but the fast.ai source code is very difficult to read.

Re: New Fast.ai Course: A Code-First Introduction to Natural Language Processing

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Post by thellamafarm2 » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 2:49 PM UTC

jahbrewski wrote: post #6

I just started the fast.ai MOOC (practical deep learning for coders), and boy, I much prefer reading through a tutorial than sitting through hours upon hours of videos. I looked for transcripts and/or a written version of the content and came up empty-handed. Can anyone recommend a solid, written, introduction, covering similar material?

What is your skillset? What language?