These days, it goes by many names, but officially the “workshop” is known simply as “Mastering LLMs: A Conference For Developers & Data Scie

LLM Workshop #1 - How to take a course that never ends

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2024-07-04 08:00:05

These days, it goes by many names, but officially the “workshop” is known simply as “Mastering LLMs: A Conference For Developers & Data Scientists”.

Initially envisioned as a four-week course, it quickly evolved into something much more dynamic — a conference brimming with talks, office hours, and a wealth of insights shared on their Discord. Participants also received a generous amount of credits from various companies in the field to experiment on their own.

Although the event has technically concluded, I’m remain only 95% convinced that it’s truly over (a new “30 minute” 90 minute session could pop-up in my calendar at any moment).

At it’s core, the event is about equipping participants with the necessary tools and techniques to create a comprehensive pipeline for building generative NLP solutions, from dataset curation to deployment. Its spans 4 core workshops, 20 conference sessions, 6 office hours, and a bunch of async discussions via discord. If that sounds like a lot of content, good … because it is! My friend Sanyam summed my feelings in week 3 with this message I got from him on Discord …

Are you feeling overwhelemed by the course as well? I feel this is fastai by at 1000x speed … but for real world, energy. It’s impossible for me to just keep up with the lectures, barely getting time to play with examples or run some code.