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Modernize NLP course with updated syllabus, slides, and assignments
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Enhance existing assignments to match modernized course scope
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Update course timeline to reflect 10-week Winter 2026 schedule
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Enhance existing assignments to match modernized course scope
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Correct classroom location and course end date
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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
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