Huggingface courses
I've been trying to work out where to begin learning about AI. I've stumbled across forums and articles and the Huggingface site is evidently commonly used by people in the field.
When you visit the Huggingface site you're faced with lists of models and datasets. But if you search the site some more, you'll find some Community pages. There is a section for learning, plus some forums.
Their NLP course looks good. I'll get to learn about Transformers, Datasets and Tokenisers.
Prerequisites are a knowledge of Python - well, I'm a Python dev, so that's all good. I also need a basic knowledge of machine learning and deep learning. Specifically, I need to know about training and validation sets, and what gradient descent means. I don't.
So, I need to do some more learning before I can start this course. Huggingface recommends the Practical Deep Learning for Coders course from fast.ai. There 9, 90-minute lessons. I don't think I've ever actually done online courses (aside from Health and Safety courses at work). I"m used to just diving in and hacking around. This is going to take some time.