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How Machines Work with Language: Classical NLP for Sentiment, Search and Translation — the free Preview

This page is the real first concept of How Machines Work with Language: Classical NLP for Sentiment, Search and Translation (Signature Course No. 338) — not a trailer and not a video. You work through Concept 1, “Text into Tokens,” in a Socratic conversation with an AI coach: she asks before she teaches, builds on your own answers, and holds you to a mastery bar before the concept counts as done.

What this course teaches. Before a machine can judge a review, rank a search, or carry a sentence across a language, it must turn text into numbers it can add, compare, and weigh. This course teaches that classical machinery by hand — tokens, counts, weights, classifiers, sequences, and attention — with every figure computed at a scale you can check.

How the Preview works. Meet Sutton, our Head Coach, then request your free Preview key — it arrives by email in a moment. Pick your coach (Sutton, Alex, Caroline, Jack, Catherine, or Marcus), hear each one ask this concept’s first question, and begin. One concept, one five-minute conversation, coached exactly as enrolled learners meet it. When you’re ready for all 18 concepts, the full course is $195.

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