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

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Post by dragandj »

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?

(My own writings)

Deep Learning from Scratch to GPU at https://dragan.rocks

Deep Learning for Programmers (book in progress) at https://aiprobook.com/deep-learning-for-programmers

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

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Post by EForEndeavour »

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?

Project idea: use the NLP skills taught in this course to build an automated system that converts the course's videos into a written tutorial.

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

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Post by thijsvandien »

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?

I have the same problem with video courses. The moment I start to sit and watch, I feel drowsy. It's strange, because I never had it so bad in real life lectures. Did anyone experience the same and find a way to fix themselves?

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

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Post by manojlds »

thijsvandien wrote: post #15
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?

I have the same problem with video courses. The moment I start to sit and watch, I feel drowsy. It's strange, because I never had it so bad in real life lectures. Did anyone experience the same and find a way to fix themselves?

The Coursera DeepLearning.ai course is very well done.

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

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Post by bbrian »

thijsvandien wrote: post #15
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?

I have the same problem with video courses. The moment I start to sit and watch, I feel drowsy. It's strange, because I never had it so bad in real life lectures. Did anyone experience the same and find a way to fix themselves?

I discovered Udemy's 1.25x and 1.5x speed last week. It certainly helped.

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

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Post by alohia »

thijsvandien wrote: post #15
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?

I have the same problem with video courses. The moment I start to sit and watch, I feel drowsy. It's strange, because I never had it so bad in real life lectures. Did anyone experience the same and find a way to fix themselves?

Use this chrome extension to increase video speeds on all sites: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...

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

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Post by gumby »

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?

My gf worked for Coursera for a while so I tried some of their courses. The big win for me was that every one I tried included a full transcript. So my use model was to simply read the transcripts and if I didn't understand something I clicked on the text which would jump to that point in the video.

But in general for the stuff I want to learn I prefer to read a book, which is harder to find for really recent stuff like this.

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

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Post by codesushi42 »

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?

Yes.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning https://github.com/tpn/pdfs/blob/master/An%20Introduction%20...

Deep Learning https://books.google.com/books/about/Deep_Learning.html?id=o...

Machine Learning Mastery books https://machinelearningmastery.com/products/

Convolutional Neural Networks from the Ground Up https://towardsdatascience.com/convolutional-neural-networks...

Transformers https://medium.com/inside-machine-learning/what-is-a-transfo...

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