After the summer lull, we're off to an explosive start again! This newsletter is packed full of awesome resources to kick-start your learning of NLP, whether you'll head back to your job or to university. Not only that, we have a plethora of interesting presentations, awesome blog posts, and companies who are rethinking the way we apply NLP. Common themes in this newsletter are advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR),  language modelling, and machine translation.