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We've been put in the vibe space
https://vickiboykis.com/2024/05/06/weve-been-put-in-the-vibe-space/
Published: May 6, 2024 00:00
Jakobās Law of UX goes something like this. I, as a user online, spend my time on many sites. As such, when I come to your site, I am already used to the way the other sites work, and I donāt want to learn new paradigms. Some also call these preconceivedā¦
How I search in 2024
https://vickiboykis.com/2024/04/25/how-i-search-in-2024/
Published: April 25, 2024 00:00
We are now in a very weird liminal space in information retrieval for consumers, particularly those attuned to trends in search and working on the bleeding edge of LLMs. On the one hand, we have the fall of old companies. Broadcast-based centralized socialā¦
Redis is forked
https://vickiboykis.com/2024/04/16/redis-is-forked/
Published: April 16, 2024 00:00
I, like many developers who have worked on high-scale, low-latency web services over the last fifteen years, have an intimate relationship with Redis. At any new job, when you ask where the data is, and someone points you to a server address with portā¦
Both pyramids are white
https://vickiboykis.com/2024/03/13/both-pyramids-are-white/
Published: March 13, 2024 00:00
I recently came across a really great Soviet video from 1971 called āMyself and Othersā (unfortunately only in Russian so far) where the creators examine how people react psychologically to different situations and how we see ourselves in light of a group.ā¦
GGUF, the long way around
https://vickiboykis.com/2024/02/28/gguf-the-long-way-around/
Published: February 28, 2024 00:00
Table of Contents How We Use LLM Artifacts What is a machine learning model Starting with a simple model Writing the model code Instantiating the model object Serializing our objects What is a file How does PyTorch write objects to files? How Pickle worksā¦
What's new with ML in production
https://veekaybee.github.io/2024/01/15/whats-new-with-ml-in-production/
Published: January 15, 2024 00:00
Image with some help from Dingboard. In 2023, I wrote two pieces on machine learning engineering for The Pragmatic Programmer. (Part 1 and Part 2). However, since I started working with LLMs recently, neural architectures have changed some of thoseā¦
Retro on Viberary
https://veekaybee.github.io/2024/01/05/retro-on-viberary/
Published: January 5, 2024 00:00
Viberary is a side project that I worked on in 2023, which does semantic search for books by vibe. It was hosted at [viberary.pizza.] Iām shutting down the running app and putting the codebase in maintenance mode because: A lot of what I want to continueā¦