Modernize NLP course with updated syllabus, slides, and assignments #4
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| name: Build and Deploy Slides | |
| on: | |
| push: | |
| branches: [ main, master ] | |
| paths: | |
| - 'slides/**/*.tex' | |
| - '.github/workflows/build-slides.yml' | |
| pull_request: | |
| branches: [ main, master ] | |
| paths: | |
| - 'slides/**/*.tex' | |
| workflow_dispatch: | |
| permissions: | |
| contents: read | |
| pages: write | |
| id-token: write | |
| concurrency: | |
| group: "pages" | |
| cancel-in-progress: false | |
| jobs: | |
| build-slides: | |
| runs-on: ubuntu-latest | |
| steps: | |
| - name: Checkout repository | |
| uses: actions/checkout@v4 | |
| - name: Install LaTeX | |
| run: | | |
| sudo apt-get update | |
| sudo apt-get install -y \ | |
| texlive-latex-base \ | |
| texlive-latex-extra \ | |
| texlive-fonts-recommended \ | |
| texlive-fonts-extra \ | |
| texlive-xetex \ | |
| latexmk \ | |
| pdf2svg | |
| - name: Find and compile all lecture slides | |
| run: | | |
| echo "🔍 Finding all lecture.tex files..." | |
| find slides -name "lecture.tex" -type f | while read -r tex_file; do | |
| dir=$(dirname "$tex_file") | |
| echo "📝 Compiling $tex_file..." | |
| cd "$dir" | |
| # Compile with pdflatex (try twice for references) | |
| pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error lecture.tex || true | |
| pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error lecture.tex || true | |
| # Try with xelatex if pdflatex failed | |
| if [ ! -f lecture.pdf ]; then | |
| echo "⚠️ pdflatex failed, trying xelatex..." | |
| xelatex -interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error lecture.tex || true | |
| xelatex -interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error lecture.tex || true | |
| fi | |
| cd - > /dev/null | |
| if [ -f "$dir/lecture.pdf" ]; then | |
| echo "✅ Successfully compiled $tex_file" | |
| else | |
| echo "❌ Failed to compile $tex_file" | |
| fi | |
| done | |
| - name: Install pdf.js and build web viewer | |
| run: | | |
| # Create web directory structure | |
| mkdir -p web_slides | |
| # Copy PDF files to web directory | |
| echo "📦 Copying PDFs to web directory..." | |
| find slides -name "lecture.pdf" -type f | while read -r pdf_file; do | |
| week_dir=$(dirname "$pdf_file" | xargs basename) | |
| mkdir -p "web_slides/$week_dir" | |
| cp "$pdf_file" "web_slides/$week_dir/" | |
| echo "Copied $pdf_file to web_slides/$week_dir/" | |
| done | |
| - name: Generate index page | |
| run: | | |
| cat > web_slides/index.html << 'EOF' | |
| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html lang="en"> | |
| <head> | |
| <meta charset="UTF-8"> | |
| <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> | |
| <title>LLM Course Slides</title> | |
| <style> | |
| * { | |
| margin: 0; | |
| padding: 0; | |
| box-sizing: border-box; | |
| } | |
| body { | |
| font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; | |
| background: linear-gradient(135deg, #667eea 0%, #764ba2 100%); | |
| min-height: 100vh; | |
| padding: 40px 20px; | |
| } | |
| .container { | |
| max-width: 1200px; | |
| margin: 0 auto; | |
| } | |
| h1 { | |
| color: white; | |
| text-align: center; | |
| font-size: 3em; | |
| margin-bottom: 20px; | |
| text-shadow: 2px 2px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.3); | |
| } | |
| .subtitle { | |
| color: rgba(255,255,255,0.9); | |
| text-align: center; | |
| font-size: 1.2em; | |
| margin-bottom: 50px; | |
| } | |
| .slides-grid { | |
| display: grid; | |
| grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(300px, 1fr)); | |
| gap: 30px; | |
| margin-top: 40px; | |
| } | |
| .slide-card { | |
| background: white; | |
| border-radius: 15px; | |
| padding: 30px; | |
| box-shadow: 0 10px 30px rgba(0,0,0,0.2); | |
| transition: transform 0.3s ease, box-shadow 0.3s ease; | |
| text-decoration: none; | |
| color: inherit; | |
| display: block; | |
| } | |
| .slide-card:hover { | |
| transform: translateY(-10px); | |
| box-shadow: 0 15px 40px rgba(0,0,0,0.3); | |
| } | |
| .slide-card h2 { | |
| color: #667eea; | |
| margin-bottom: 15px; | |
| font-size: 1.5em; | |
| } | |
| .slide-card p { | |
| color: #666; | |
| line-height: 1.6; | |
| margin-bottom: 20px; | |
| } | |
| .slide-card .view-button { | |
| display: inline-block; | |
| background: linear-gradient(135deg, #667eea 0%, #764ba2 100%); | |
| color: white; | |
| padding: 12px 30px; | |
| border-radius: 25px; | |
| text-decoration: none; | |
| font-weight: bold; | |
| transition: opacity 0.3s ease; | |
| } | |
| .slide-card .view-button:hover { | |
| opacity: 0.8; | |
| } | |
| .emoji { | |
| font-size: 2em; | |
| margin-bottom: 15px; | |
| display: block; | |
| } | |
| footer { | |
| text-align: center; | |
| color: white; | |
| margin-top: 60px; | |
| padding: 20px; | |
| } | |
| footer a { | |
| color: white; | |
| text-decoration: underline; | |
| } | |
| </style> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <div class="container"> | |
| <h1>🤖 LLM Course Slides</h1> | |
| <p class="subtitle">Models of Language and Conversation</p> | |
| <div class="slides-grid"> | |
| <a href="week1/lecture.pdf" class="slide-card" target="_blank"> | |
| <span class="emoji">🚀</span> | |
| <h2>Week 1: Introduction</h2> | |
| <p>String manipulation, pattern matching, and the ELIZA chatbot. Is ChatGPT conscious?</p> | |
| <span class="view-button">View Slides →</span> | |
| </a> | |
| <a href="week2/lecture.pdf" class="slide-card" target="_blank"> | |
| <span class="emoji">📝</span> | |
| <h2>Week 2: Computational Linguistics</h2> | |
| <p>Tokenization, POS tagging, sentiment analysis, and statistical learning.</p> | |
| <span class="view-button">View Slides →</span> | |
| </a> | |
| <a href="week3-4/lecture.pdf" class="slide-card" target="_blank"> | |
| <span class="emoji">📊</span> | |
| <h2>Weeks 3-4: Text Embeddings</h2> | |
| <p>Dimensionality reduction, LSA, LDA, Word2Vec, GloVe, and modern topic modeling.</p> | |
| <span class="view-button">View Slides →</span> | |
| </a> | |
| <a href="week5-6/lecture.pdf" class="slide-card" target="_blank"> | |
| <span class="emoji">⚡</span> | |
| <h2>Weeks 5-6: Transformers & BERT</h2> | |
| <p>Attention mechanisms, transformer architecture, and context-aware models.</p> | |
| <span class="view-button">View Slides →</span> | |
| </a> | |
| <a href="week7/lecture.pdf" class="slide-card" target="_blank"> | |
| <span class="emoji">💬</span> | |
| <h2>Week 7: Models of Conversation</h2> | |
| <p>Pragmatics, dialogue, common ground, and thought trajectories.</p> | |
| <span class="view-button">View Slides →</span> | |
| </a> | |
| <a href="week8/lecture.pdf" class="slide-card" target="_blank"> | |
| <span class="emoji">🧠</span> | |
| <h2>Week 8: GPT Models</h2> | |
| <p>GPT evolution, building transformers from scratch, and language models & the brain.</p> | |
| <span class="view-button">View Slides →</span> | |
| </a> | |
| <a href="week9/lecture.pdf" class="slide-card" target="_blank"> | |
| <span class="emoji">🔍</span> | |
| <h2>Week 9: RAG & MoE</h2> | |
| <p>Retrieval Augmented Generation, Mixture of Experts, and the future of LLMs.</p> | |
| <span class="view-button">View Slides →</span> | |
| </a> | |
| </div> | |
| <footer> | |
| <p>📚 <a href="https://github.com/ContextLab/llm-course" target="_blank">View Course on GitHub</a></p> | |
| <p>Built with ❤️ using LaTeX Beamer and GitHub Actions</p> | |
| </footer> | |
| </div> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> | |
| EOF | |
| echo "✅ Created index page at web_slides/index.html" | |
| - name: Setup Pages | |
| uses: actions/configure-pages@v4 | |
| - name: Upload artifact | |
| uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3 | |
| with: | |
| path: 'web_slides' | |
| - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages | |
| id: deployment | |
| uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4 |