Favorite books of 2024 Like last year, I spent a fair amount of the year reading code and technical books. Every year I have this struggle. There is a lot going on in machine learning and engineering and I need to stay on top of it. Yet, I also need to read fiction because if I only read tech books, they take away my creative energy rather than grant it, as fiction does. Fiction allows me to understand other points of view, transports me to universes of inner lives and dialogues of people who...| ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰
This is a reply to Christine Lemmer-Webber's thoughtful (and widely read) "How decentralized is Bluesky really?" blog post. I am so happy and grateful that Christine took the time to write up her thoughts and put them out in public. Her writing sheds light on substantive differences between protoco...| whtwnd.com
Recently due to various events (namely a lot of people getting off of| dustycloud.org
There’s a whole lot of buzz around the new Qwen2.5-Coder Series of open source (Apache 2.0 licensed) LLM releases from Alibaba’s Qwen research team. On first impression it looks like …| Simon Willison’s Weblog
I don't think that AI models (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped. In this post I will list 50 ways I've used them.| nicholas.carlini.com
All we have to do is get closer to the metal| ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰
What's different about LLMs versus traditional ML| ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰
My keynote at PyData Amsterdam 2023| ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰
Normconf was amazing!| ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰
Mozilla.ai’s founding story is rooted in open-source principles and community collaboration while developing our platform to empower developers.| Mozilla.ai
Is what we do development anymore?| ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰
1. Learn broadly. 2. Learn deeply. 3. Don't be afraid to re-learn| ★❤✰ Vicki Boykis ★❤✰