Courses & Communities¶
Free and paid resources to supplement the handbook.
Free courses¶
| Resource | Format | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft AI Agents for Beginners | GitHub + videos | Agent fundamentals |
| Fast.ai | Notebooks | Deep learning intuition |
| Hugging Face Course | Interactive | Transformers, fine-tuning |
| DeepLearning.AI short courses | Video + labs | RAG, agents, LangChain |
| Full Stack LLM Bootcamp | Videos | Production LLM apps |
Practice platforms¶
| Platform | What you practice |
|---|---|
| Kaggle | ML competitions, notebooks |
| Hugging Face Spaces | Deploy demos |
| This handbook | Structured lessons + exercises |
Communities¶
| Community | Notes |
|---|---|
| r/LocalLLaMA | Open models, local inference |
| Latent Space Discord | AI engineering discourse |
| Hugging Face Discord | Open-source ML |