Vicki Boykis
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Vicki Boykis
Vicki BoykisVoicesSlides on retrieval and ranking with ONNX inference The wonderful DataPhilly meetup community asked me to come give a talk on any topic, and I talked for half an hour on embedding-based retrieval, machine learning model artifacts creation and…
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Vicki BoykisVoicesHow to Learn ML in 2026 interview I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Yacine of Deep Learning with Yacine . He posed a lot of very thoughtful questions and I had a great time. Please check it out!
Vicki BoykisVoicesBad code is kudzu Cultivation of the Vines, Henri Martin Kudzu is a plant that was once introduced from East Asia to the eastern United States as a way to combat soil erosion.
Vicki BoykisVoicesWrite for people Something I’ve noticed recently is that I am no longer able to read and parse PR titles and descriptions across the internet.
Vicki BoykisVoicesRunning local models is good now I’ve been working with local models since they came out, and finally, they’re surprisingly good now.
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Vicki BoykisVoicesWe should be more tired than the model Lately, I’ve been feeling like I’m losing control over the code I write when I work with agentic code generation.
Vicki BoykisVoicesTagging my blog posts with BERTopic and LLMs I recently added tags to my blog using BERTopic and a mix of LLMs. You can see the tags in the sidebar to the right (or in the footer on mobile).
Vicki BoykisVoicesBuild yourself flowers This is an edited transcript of the keynote I gave at the Applied Machine Learning Conference in Charlottesville, VA in April 2026. I first wrote a draft of this talk by hand.
Vicki BoykisVoicesMechanical sympathy Weaver, seen from the Front , Vincent van Gogh, 1884 Something that’s been floating around in my head lately is the idea that I don’t know any truly good engineers who are also not good…
Vicki BoykisVoicesOn Programming Joy and Octocat While GitHub has been busy losing its last nine of availablility , I’ve been thinking about how the internet used to be.
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Vicki BoykisVoicesNASA Elements of Engineering Excellence I stumbled across this report from NASA , “Elements of Engineering Excellence”, published in 2012, The inspiration for this paper originated in discussions with the director of MSFC…
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Vicki BoykisVoicesAntidote If you love building things, and the process of building is just as important to you as the result itself, it’s not unreasonable that you’re in a slump these days.
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Vicki BoykisVoicesQuerying 3 billion vectors Recently, I got nerd-sniped by this exchange between Jeff Dean and someone trying to query 3 billion vectors.
Vicki BoykisVoices2025 in review Jeune fille lisant une lettre à la bougie, Jean-Baptiste Santerre, 1700 Machine learning engineers spend their lives alternating between two states: staring at tqdm progress bars during model…
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