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Build a Booking Assistant, a free technology course on Tomo

Build a Booking Assistant

Like Duolingo, but for Build a Booking Assistant. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

A short one: 11 levels across 2 sections, about 22 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Teaching the Brain to Listen and From Prediction to Action. It starts from scratch.

11 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Bibi the Booking Bee, the guide who teaches the Build a Booking Assistant course
Build a Booking Assistant
with Bibi the Booking Bee
11
Levels
2
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in Build a Booking Assistant

  • An intent is the 'why' behind a message
  • Variety in sentence structure helps the model
  • Intents are labels that group sentences
  • Models fail with repeated keywords
  • Specific message goal: cancel a visit
  • Synonyms are essential
  • Distinguishing intent from literal words
  • Linguistic variety in training data
  • Real patients use slang, typos, and incomplete sentences
  • Training on 'messy' data (utterances) prepares the model for real-world use
  • Over-polishing data makes the model fragile
  • Generalization is the ability to handle new, unseen phrases
  • The model is looking for patterns, not just matching exact words
  • A hold-out set must be kept secret from the model during training
  • Understanding the value of 'messy' natural language in training data
  • Testing on the same data used for training gives a false sense of success
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives Build a Booking Assistant the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

The Secret Behind the Words

Why should you use many different sentence structures when teaching your model a new goal?

Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.

Course map

Where Build a Booking Assistant takes you

Learn to build a machine learning model that understands patient requests and turns messy chat into organized medical appointments.

  1. 1

    Teaching the Brain to Listen

    • Mapping Words to Intent
    • Extracting the Details
  2. 2

    From Prediction to Action

    • Handling the Messy Reality
    • Connecting to the Calendar

2 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Bestie

Build a Booking Assistant is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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