We hope that you are excited to get started with the course, and we have designed this page to make sure you have everything you need to jump right in!
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๐ CREATE HUGGING FACE ACCOUNT
We assume that you are familiar with deep learning basics, and have general familiarity with transformers. If you need to brush up on your understanding of transformers, check out our NLP Course.
To go through the course materials you will need:
As an alternative to the free tier of Google Colab, you can use your own local setup, or Kaggle Notebooks. Kaggle Notebooks offer a fixed number of GPU hours and have similar functionality to Google Colab, however, there are differences when it comes to sharing your models on ๐ค Hub (e.g. for completing assignments). If you decide to use Kaggle Notebooks as your tool of choice, check out the example Kaggle notebook created by @michaelshekasta. This notebook illustrates how you can train and share your trained model on ๐ค Hub.
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