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vicki

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vicki

@vboykis

I move vectors to different machines sometimes. Founding ml engineer in recsys/search. building ✨I like Nutella.

Joined January 2009

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@vboykis
Jun 5, 2023
Ok, so LLMs are a Thing. How do they work? Embeddings. WTF are embeddings? I spent a year doing a deep dive. But when I was researching, I couldn't find anything that explained them in business, engineering, AND math contexts. So I wrote a thing.🚀
vickiboykis.com
What are embeddings?
A deep-dive into machine learning embeddings.
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vicki
@vboykis
Feb 25, 2023
Women: I can change him Him:
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@vboykis
Dec 24, 2018
It's only called a Neural Network if it comes from the Neuralè region of France. Otherwise you have to call it a logistic regression.
vicki
@vboykis
Feb 27, 2019
Ten years ago, I didn't know what unit tests, version control, or continuous integration were. Today, my code fails at each of these steps at least once a day. Follow your dreams.
vicki
@vboykis
Jul 23, 2024
The single most important thing I have learned about software development over my career is that if you do not aggressively fight complexity, it will eat you alive.
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@vboykis
Oct 2, 2018
Me at career day in middle school, brightly: Okay, kids. I'm a 'machine learning engineer', which is just a fancy word for - Kid in the back: Yeah, we know what you do. PyTorch or Tensorflow? Me: Well, I, uh, don't do deep learn- Kids: BOOOO GO HOME I BET YOU ONLY USE ONE CORE
vicki
@vboykis
Jan 21, 2023
Intro to machine learning books make so much sense after you have at least five years of experience in machine learning.
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@vboykis
Oct 9, 2018
Hottest programming skills in 2018: 5. Fixing git merge conflicts 4. Correctly mapping ports in Docker containers to host machines 3. Getting info from AWS documentation 2. Pulling summary stats from a data stream 1. Turning any of the above into a conference talk about AI
vicki
@vboykis
Feb 25, 2022
A senior developer is someone who fluently hates more than one programming language.
vicki
@vboykis
Jul 12, 2022
ML textbooks have titles like “A Gentle Introduction to Linear Algebra for Data Analysis” and then the first sentence hits you out the gate with, “Assume the inverse covariance matrix theta we were imagining in our head before you picked up the book is transposed to reveal— ”
vicki
@vboykis
May 12, 2019
Sorting Hat: Merge sort. Harry Potter: Er, excuse me? Sorting Hat: The white board, do a merge sort. Harry Potter: But I thought Hogwarts was a mag- Dumbledore: My dear boy, castle rent is much too expensive. We've pivoted to SaaS products. The hat does our interviews now.
vicki
@vboykis
Dec 31, 2023
LLMs are so weird because one side is people with five PhDs who have been studying neuron activations for the past three decades and on the other side is someone called leetm5n with an anime avatar just casually releasing increasingly better performing fine tunes of mistral
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@vboykis
Aug 23, 2018
Name a more iconic trio, I'll wait.
vicki
@vboykis
Jul 18, 2023
hundred startups just tanked
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