How to learn NLP for free
Knowing what to learn is one of the hardest parts about self-learning. Imagine being thrown into the wilderness and being told to find a specific landmark. Without a map you will end up wandering to wilderness with no better option than taking one step after another.

I spent a long time wandering step-by-step and eventually found my way into working with deep learning and NLP full-time.

Here I will share many of the resources I used or wish I had used in the past. You can this "curriculum" as a rough guideline in self-learning ML and working towards a full-time position.

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00:00 Intro
01:53 ML 101 + Prerequisites
04:58 Sentdex + Neural Nets from Scratch
07:32 ML Coursera
09:31 100 Page ML Book
11:14 Applied ML + Daniel Bourke
13:17 Origin of Modern NLP
13:41 CS224N
14:44 NLP Specialization Coursera
15:57 Modern NLP + Transformers Intro
16:54 Transformer Courses
18:14 Doing Projects
19:18 Semantic + Vector Search
19:54 NLP for Semantic Search
20:44 Mining of Massive Datasets
22:27 Final Points