Udemy - NLP to LLMs - Build the Understanding That Lasts

NLP to LLMs: Build the Understanding That Lasts

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Published 8/2026
Created by OfferLab Courses
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: Intermediate | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + subtitle | Duration: 30 Lectures ( 2h 55m ) | Size: 859 MB

Attention traced by hand, LoRA written from scratch, RAG and evals measured. No GPU, no paid API, ever.

What you'll learn
⚡ Frame any text problem as a standard task type, and ship a TF-IDF baseline that earns its keep
⚡ Trace one attention head by hand, with real shapes, until the mechanism stops being a metaphor
⚡ Diagram a full transformer block from memory: multi-head, feed-forward, residuals, positions
⚡ Narrate the GPT lineage as a series of specific bets, and explain why chat models behave unlike base models
⚡ Control generation on purpose with temperature and top-p, and get reliable JSON and tool calls
⚡ Estimate and cut the cost of an LLM feature before you build it, using context and latency budgets
⚡ Build a RAG system and debug retrieval with recall checks rather than vibes
⚡ Run a real LoRA fine-tune on a laptop CPU, verify the gain, and defend the build decision with your own numbers

Requirements
❗ Comfortable Python (you can read a class and a loop)
❗ Some exposure to machine learning basics helps but is not required
❗ No GPU, no paid API key, no cloud account. Every lab runs on a laptop CPU