Learn NLP the Stanford way -- Lesson 1

The AI area of Natural Language Processing, or NLP, throughout its gigantic language models -- yes, GPT-3, I'm watching you -- presents what it's perceived as a revolution in machines' capabilities to perform the most distinct language tasks. Due to that, the perception of the public as a whole is split: some perceive that these new language models are going to pave the way to a Skynet type of technology, while others dismiss them as hype-fueled technologies that will live in dusty shelves, or HDD drives, in little to no time. Motivated by this, I'm creating this series of stories that will approach NLP from scratch in a friendly way. To join me, you'll need to have little experience with Python and Jupyter Notebooks, and for the most part, I won't even ask you to have anything installed on your machine. This series will differ dramatically from the Stanford course in terms of the depth that we'll approach statistics and calculus.