How to learn NLP for free for beginners

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 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVAJ_l_S7uQ