An Open Course on LLMs, Led by Practitioners

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Or you can cut the intermediate links and go straight to https://www.youtube.com/@hamelhusain7140/playlists

Hi I'm Hamel, author of this blog post. A few months ago, I hosted a course on applied-llms that went viral https://maven.com/parlance-labs/fine-tuning and became a conference organically with 30+ speakers.

I thought it would be tragedy if this material were perpetually locked behind a paywall, so I worked hard to curate all the talks and make it freely available to everyone. I hope it is beneficial to everyone.

Amazing contribution Hamel, thanks for sharing. I though it was behind a paywall as you said, very glad you decided to open it. Looking forward to start with this course.

I have been eyeing your course for a while now. This is fantastic! Thank you so much!

Hi Hamel, thanks for releasing this. Slightly OT, but do you have any advice for someone who wants to work on/with LLMs at a tech company? How can a fullstack engineer transition to work on LLMs? How do I get the attention of some of the good tech companies since they usually want some ML related roles on the resume? What sort of projects can I work on? Maybe blogging about my learning might help? I know this is a very generic question, but any advice from someone like you would be great!

This looks interesting. Why the braintrust, though? Seems like a paid option.

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