Abhishek Thakur Courses

Build Your Own Hybrid Search - BM25 and Vector Embeddings with Reciprocal Rank Fusion

Discover how to upgrade a BM25 search engine into a hybrid system combining BM25 with vector embeddings using reciprocal rank fusion for enhanced semantic search capabilities.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

All About Evaluations with Hamel Husain

Discover evaluation techniques and best practices for machine learning models with expert insights from Hamel Husain in this comprehensive 32-minute discussion.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A No-Nonsense Introduction to BM25

Discover BM25, the ranking algorithm powering search engines. Learn term frequency, inverse document frequency, document length effects, and key parameters k₁ and b for better search performance.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

PyTorch 101 - An Applied Tutorial

Discover PyTorch fundamentals through hands-on examples covering tensors, autograd, datasets, dataloaders, and building neural networks for NLP and computer vision applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Applied Machine Learning Framework

Master building a comprehensive ML framework from cross-validation to categorical features, binary classification metrics, and entity embeddings for real-world applications.

• YouTube
• 5 hours 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Everything About MLX

Discover MLX fundamentals and applications with expert Prince Canuma in this comprehensive 46-minute deep dive into Apple's machine learning framework.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Vibe Coding a Search UI with FastAPI and Vespa

Build a modern search interface using FastAPI, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and PyVespa to create a responsive UI that queries 250K+ documents locally with millisecond performance.

• YouTube
• 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Faster, Smaller, Smarter - How Liquid AI Is Redefining LLM Efficiency

Discover how Liquid AI revolutionizes small language models through hybrid architectures, neural search, and efficient training methods for local deployment on consumer hardware.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Build Your Own RAG Without Code

Discover how to create an advanced scalable RAG system using NyRAG without writing any code in this 13-minute tutorial by Abhishek Thakur.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building a Real Search Engine - BM25 Implementation with Vespa and Python - Part 1

Discover how to build a BM25 keyword search engine using Vespa and Python, covering schema definition, Docker setup, dataset streaming, and query implementation in 25 minutes.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Deep Learning for Survival Analysis

Explore survival analysis for time-to-event prediction, including censoring, Cox regression, and deep learning models such as DeepSurv and CoxTime.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

BYOB - Build Your Own Bot

A practical primer on building conversational AI chatbots, covering intent recognition, dialogue management, training data, fallback handling, and generative model choices.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Understanding BigBird - Transformers for Longer Sequences

Understand BigBird’s block-sparse attention, implementation, complexity, and use for processing longer sequences than BERT.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

DALL-E Mini - Generate Images From a Text Prompt

See how DALL·E mini recreates text-to-image generation with a smaller architecture, from datasets and training through model components, inference, and evaluation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

What Are Decision Trees and How Do They Work - From Scratch

Build decision trees from scratch for classification and regression, using impurity measures and comparing the result with scikit-learn.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video