About Exploring Language Models

(Large) Language Models have had a tremendous impact on the field. I created Exploring Language Models as a way to keep myself up to date with the latest developments. There is no better way of learning something than creating content.

Hopefully, they will also be of benefit to you!

About the Author

I’m Maarten! As a psychologist turned AI engineer, I’m interested in making AI accessible through highly visual guides.

By taking a rather unorthodox path towards AI engineering, I have been fortunate to have explored and experienced interesting opportunities. From open-sourcing popular packages and collaborating with big-tech, to creating a newsletter and writing an O’Reilly book.

Fun facts

• author of the Hands-On Large Language Models book
  ^{Amazon #1 bestseller in Data Modeling and NLP}

• author of the upcoming An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents book

• creator of popular open-source packages, like BERTopic, PolyFuzz, and KeyBERT
  ^{> 15,000,000 downloads}

• author of the Exploring Language Models newsletter
  ^{> 2,000,000 views}

• created courses on DeepLearning.AI and Analytics Vidhya
  ^{> 50,000 students enrolled}

• graduated with three MSc degrees cum laude
  ^{Organizational Psychology | Clinical Psychology | Data Science & Entrepreneurship}

• written academic articles about my open-source work
  ^{> 3,000 citations}

• love playing board games (currently 20 Strong)

Aside from Substack, you can also find me on Twitter and LinkedIn!