Vicki Boykis
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.
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vickiboykis.comSite Her blog and essays on ML engineering, embeddings, recsys and reading.
Recent
- Bad code is kudzu 1 Sept 2026
- Write for people 12 Aug 2026
- Running local models is good now 15 Jun 2026
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- We should be more tired than the model 28 May 2026
- Tagging my blog posts with BERTopic and LLMs 18 May 2026
- Build yourself flowers 20 Apr 2026
- Mechanical sympathy 13 Apr 2026
- On Programming Joy and Octocat 6 Apr 2026
- NASA Elements of Engineering Excellence 5 Apr 2026
- Antidote 4 Mar 2026
- Querying 3 billion vectors 21 Feb 2026
- 2025 in review 22 Dec 2025
- I want to see the claw 20 Oct 2025
- Walking around the app 9 Sept 2025
- How big are our embeddings now and why? 1 Sept 2025
- Enabling Hugo static site search with Lunr.js 8 Aug 2025
- My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs 16 Jul 2025
- 20 years of YC 17 Mar 2025
- You can just hack on ATProto 23 Jan 2025
- How FastAPI path operations work 14 Jan 2025
Link verified 4 Sept 2026. Recent items update automatically from the channel.
github.com/veekaybeeGitHub Her code, including Viberary and the embeddings text.
Recent
- veekaybee — About 25 Jun 2026
- favorite_essays — Updating list of favorite internet essays 7 Mar 2026
- what_are_embeddings — A deep dive into embeddings starting from fundamentals 17 Jan 2026
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- claude-code-docker — Lightweight Docker for Claude Code 22 Jun 2025
- gitfeed — Feed of posts from Bluesky that have a GitHub link 15 Mar 2025
- ml-garden — Personal Learning Mind Map 10 Dec 2024
- blusky — Playing with Python Bluesky SDK 18 Nov 2024
- viberary — Good books, good vibes 6 Jan 2024
- viberary_model — ONNX Model for Viberary 29 Oct 2023
- venti 22 May 2023
- spark-calc — Spark memory settings calculator 4 May 2023
Link verified 4 Sept 2026. Recent items update automatically from the channel.
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GPT-OSS Liked
The idea that local models were severely lagging behind was largely true until, for me, the release of GPT-OSS.
vickiboykis.com 2026-06-15
gemma-4-12b-qat Liked
Gemma-4-12b-qat just came out but I've already also really been impressed with its performance relative to its size.
vickiboykis.com 2026-06-15
gemma-4-26b-a4b Uses
I've so far been using gemma-4-26b-a4b LM Studio implementation as my default local model.
vickiboykis.com 2026-06-15
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pi Uses
For my local setup, I'm currently using Pi as the agent harness and LM Studio as the inference server
vickiboykis.com 2026-06-15
LM Studio Uses
For my local setup, I'm currently using Pi as the agent harness and LM Studio as the inference server
vickiboykis.com 2026-06-15
The C Programming Language Liked
The C Programming Language - I've finally gotten to the point in my career where I can appreciate the elegance of this book.
vickiboykis.com 2024-12-31
The Tombs of Atuan Loved
The Tombs of Atuan - My only regret is that I came to Ursula K. LeGuin so late in life, and this might be my favorite of all of her books I've read so far.
vickiboykis.com 2024-12-31
The Rattle Bag Recommends
The Rattle Bag edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes - In an age of LLM-generated poetry and machine learning curation (even coming from yours truly sometimes), it's refreshing to have real people who love poetry curate it and show you what you need to read to touch grass.
vickiboykis.com 2024-12-31
Our Share of Night Loved
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez - I was struck to the bone by this book. I thought about it for many weeks after I read it and even had several dreams about it.
vickiboykis.com 2024-12-31
Life with Picasso Recommends
A second complementary book was Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot
vickiboykis.com 2024-12-31
Cathedral of the Sea Loved
Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones - One of the biggest recent creative impacts of my life was a trip I took to Barcelona in 2023.
vickiboykis.com 2024-12-31
Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing Recommends
I also read a ton of technical books last year, but the most impactful one for me was Neural Network Methods for Natural Language processing by Yoav Goldberg
vickiboykis.com 2023-12-26
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Olga Dies Dreaming Liked
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez - Olga grows up in the Puerto Rican community in New York and becomes enormously successful as a wedding planner, but cannot manage her own relationships
vickiboykis.com 2023-12-26
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Liked
A wonderful idea for a book and brilliant execution as she lives from Medieval France to modern day.
vickiboykis.com 2023-12-26
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Loved
Tomorrow and tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - A gut punch of a book, beautiful and lyrical.
vickiboykis.com 2023-12-26
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The Last Interview Liked
The Last Interview by Anthony Bourdain - There are some people who I often wish were still alive so I could have their take on things.
vickiboykis.com 2023-12-26
Becoming a Technical Leader Recommends
Becoming a Technical Leader by Gerald Weinberg - I've read and recommended Weinberg before and recommend him yet again.
vickiboykis.com 2023-12-26
The Outlaws Liked
The Outlaws by Javier Cercas - This book, translated from Spanish, covers the years of Spain after the Franco dictatorship but only obliquely hints at them.
vickiboykis.com 2023-12-26
Demon Copperhead Loved
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - By far my favorite book of the year.
vickiboykis.com 2023-12-26
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- Bad code is kudzu 1 Sept
- Write for people 12 Aug
- veekaybee — About 25 Jun
- Running local models is good now 15 Jun
- We should be more tired than the model 28 May
- Tagging my blog posts with BERTopic and LLMs 18 May
Show 34 more
- Build yourself flowers 20 Apr
- Mechanical sympathy 13 Apr
- On Programming Joy and Octocat 6 Apr
- NASA Elements of Engineering Excellence 5 Apr
- favorite_essays — Updating list of favorite internet essays 7 Mar
- Antidote 4 Mar
- Querying 3 billion vectors 21 Feb
- what_are_embeddings — A deep dive into embeddings starting from fundamentals 17 Jan
- 2025 in review 22 Dec 2025
- I want to see the claw 20 Oct 2025
- Walking around the app 9 Sept 2025
- How big are our embeddings now and why? 1 Sept 2025
- claude-code-docker — Lightweight Docker for Claude Code 22 Jun 2025
- gitfeed — Feed of posts from Bluesky that have a GitHub link 15 Mar 2025
- Cathedral of the Sea 31 Dec 2024 Loved
- Life with Picasso 31 Dec 2024 Recommends
- Our Share of Night 31 Dec 2024 Loved
- The Rattle Bag 31 Dec 2024 Recommends
- The Tombs of Atuan 31 Dec 2024 Loved
- The C Programming Language 31 Dec 2024 Liked
- ml-garden — Personal Learning Mind Map 10 Dec 2024
- blusky — Playing with Python Bluesky SDK 18 Nov 2024
- viberary — Good books, good vibes 6 Jan 2024
- Demon Copperhead 26 Dec 2023 Loved
- The Outlaws 26 Dec 2023 Liked
- Becoming a Technical Leader 26 Dec 2023 Recommends
- The Last Interview 26 Dec 2023 Liked
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 26 Dec 2023 Loved
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue 26 Dec 2023 Liked
- Olga Dies Dreaming 26 Dec 2023 Liked
- Neural Network Methods for Natural Language Processing 26 Dec 2023 Recommends
- viberary_model — ONNX Model for Viberary 29 Oct 2023
- venti 22 May 2023
- spark-calc — Spark memory settings calculator 4 May 2023