Getting Started NLP and LLMs

[high saddle]

Are there any good courses & books that build up from the foundations of LLMs starting from NLP to the current hype topic LLM?

I know of the NLTK Book for the basics of Tokenization & Lemmatization, etc.
However are there any advanced books / courses?

Some topics they preferably should cover:
- Transformers (Attention is all you need)
- Embeddings
- Finetuning
- Prompt Template (root - why?, cause, why do different LLMs use different templates?, etc.)
- What are system prompts & user prompts
- The role of Reinforcement Learning for LLMs

Any resource is welcome 🙂

[restive thorn]

still checking out https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs25/ but looks promising

and https://stanford-cs324.github.io/winter2022/

[high saddle]

CS25 and CS324 looks promising thanks for sharing.