Thread by @pazunre

Look at what came in the mail! After 2 yrs of work, it is surreal to finally hold a hardcopy of my 1st book 😅😀😊🤪😎😍Hard copies available in a week from @ManningBooks (link in bio), on Amazon, B&N etc. in 2-3 weeks, eBooks out now! #NLProc #ArtificialIntelligence #GPT3 (1/n)

The book “Transfer Learning for NLP” is about the machine learning techniques for processing human speech currently taking the world by storm - from models like the transformer, BERT and GPT-3 to applications such as recently introduced @github co-pilot. #bert #GPT3 #NLProc (2/n)

Personally, I use these techniques in my work with @GhanaNLP and @algorineinc for translation, speech transcription etc., in my business analytics work with @DunBradstreet and even in my music. The number of applications is truly mind blowing! #bert #GPT3 #NLProc (3/n)

Even if you can’t afford book, code is freely available on GitHub, so don’t let that stop you -> lnkd.in/gR-tw8T Everything hosted on Kaggle so you can start in mins - even if you don't have a powerful GPU - all you need is an internet connection #bert #GPT3 #NLProc (4/n)

We use Python @TensorFlow @PyTorch @fastdotai Keras, @scikit_learn & @huggingface Transformers at various book stages in hands-on projects, e.g #chatbot. Some familiarity with ML and Python is recommended, but I tried to write it so you can pick those up as u go #bert #GPT3 (5/n)

Subscribe to my YouTube channel ("Paul Azunre") for video lectures & other related content that will be dropping over coming months to help more young people starting out to take on the upcoming decade with confidence. *RELEVANT PODCAST EPISODES* -> solo.to/azunre (6/n)

Immense gratitude to @ManningBooks team for this Herculean two-year effort, working tirelessly to make this happen. Couldn’t have asked for a better team and partner: true professionals who make no compromise on quality. Now let’s go share this thing with the world 🤗 🌍 (end)