# Preparation

### Before the first class you should ...

* If you are not familiar with the Hugging Face API yet, do at minimum chapter 1 and 2 of the [Hugging Face NLP course](https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter1/1) before the start of the course. Further, I strongly recommend to additionally complete the chapters 3, 5 and 6.<br>
* Register to the [Alpha Signal](https://alphasignal.ai/) newsletter.
* Get a Discord account and enter the [LAION community](https://discord.gg/9jSG7vjZ) and the [EleutherAI community](https://discord.gg/ExWR3nfM).


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