09-14, 09:30–10:20 (Europe/Amsterdam), Foo (main)
What can we learn from engineering, the history of machine learning, fantasy books, the early 1990s internet, and art history about how to be successful engineers in the modern-day data landscape ? We’ll learn together in this talk.
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No previous knowledge expected
Vicki Boykis works on end-to-end ML applications. Her interests include the intersection of information retrieval and large language models, applying engineering best practices to machine learning, and Nutella. She works at Duo Security and she lives in Philadelphia with her family. Her favorite hobby was making terrible jokes on Twitter when it was still good. She recently wrote a deep dive on embeddings and put together Normconf, celebrating normcore workflows in ML.