Björn Sigurdssòn, AI Learning Companion

Language AI for small languages, from Icelandic to yours.

Iceland · Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models

Björn is a language technologist in Reykjavík who helps large language models speak Icelandic, a language with fewer speakers than many cities. He teaches how language models learn, and why small languages need a push.

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Courses

  • Transformers and Large Language Models: Build attention and transformer blocks from scratch, understand how large language models are pretrained, aligned and scaled, and fine-tune, decode and evaluate them with Hugging Face. (Advanced, about 23 hours)
  • Vector Databases and Semantic Search: Build semantic search that's fast and measurably right: embeddings, exact and approximate indexes, compression, hybrid ranking, filtering and vector databases. (Intermediate, about 18 hours)

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