Hi! I’m Vikram.
I created and run citymeetings.nyc. I’ve also been a consulting Fractional/Interim CTO and Product Engineer since 2018.
You can read about me here and see places I’ve been featured here.
A full list of my posts is available here.
Featured
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Can you figure out where people's talking points come from with LLMs?
An examination of 203 testimonies around a contentious NYC zoning proposal
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How citymeetings.nyc uses AI to make it easy to navigate city council meetings
My talk at NYC School of Data 2024.
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Why you should regularly and systematically evaluate your LLM results
An example of how I did this to get better results and build intuition, fast.
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A primer on Roaring bitmaps: what they are and how they work
An accessible overview of a highly space-efficient bitmap data structure.
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Using Metaphone to handle bad transcriptions in voice search for sommeliers
A fun hack using phonetic algorithms.