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Vicki

@vickiboykis.com

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Founding list[float] engineer. Recsys. Personalization. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon). https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · Jan 24

ATProto makes programming fun again. Here's a side project I did over the holidays, a small app that surfaces the 10 latest links to GitHub repos from the network. I learned a ton, including Go, Javascript, and a lot about websockets

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You can just hack on ATProto

Building a lightweight Go app on the Jetstream

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 13d

daily reminder that BERT still exists and is v good

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 15d

When you’re on your fourth merged PR for the week

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 19d

I still remember!!

Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 19d

About whether something is good? Mentions across media, likely (aka page rank) - we have the data we just don’t have the incentives to offer something that is no longer available or hard to get to

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 19d

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 19d

All depends on your target users and feedback from them

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 19d

😭😭😭😭

Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 19d

“What’s a good search result or recommendation?” The evergreen question

Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 19d

something I’ve been thinking about is that all our content retrieval systems are biased towards recency rather than quality which makes it extremely hard to discover old good books, movies, blog posts, etc

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 20d

agents, but only for closing the tabs they know I’m not going to look at ever again

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 20d

Wow wonderful, thank you! ❤️

Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 23d

my version of “phone” versus “big computer” tasks are vscode codebases and JetBrains codebases

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 25d

Get a small firm oval travel pillow to take with you, helps a lot. Also stretching every day 😭

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Nimo 🏳️‍🌈 @nimobeeren.com · 29d

I love the framing of your app as your neighborhood. There’s a sense of shared responsibility that fosters joyful experiences.

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 29d

I think that even just the intent of testing rather than full coverage is a great start

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brianloveswords @brianloveswords.com · 29d

i was just using a site to buy tickets and it pops up a modal saying "do you want texts?" and when I select "no", it asks me for my phone number anyway and doesn't let me continue unless I provide it

nobody's walkin' around that app, and I still haven't bought those tickets

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 29d

Yes

Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 29d

One of my core engineering beliefs is that if you are building something you should always be holistically looking at it

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Walking around the app

You gotta check stuff out

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · Sep 8

😭

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · Sep 2

❤️

Vicki @vickiboykis.com · Sep 1

Yep, the post mentions focusing on text generation

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · Sep 1

Yup! github.com/google-deepm...

GitHub - google-deepmind/limit: On the Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval

On the Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval - google-deepmind/limit

github.com

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · Sep 1

Yes! I think that paper basically confirms that hybrid search is the way to go

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · Sep 1

i wanted to understand the current landscape better, so i did a deep dive on current embedding sizes and architectures vickiboykis.com/2025/09/01/h...

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · Aug 31

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