AnalysisTutorial / explainerMLOps, Tooling & Infrastructure · Training & Scaling1 source · Oct 17, 2026

How to Learn ML in 2026 interview

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Yacine of Deep Learning with Yacine.

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Key points

  • (Yacine) A lot of people asked me how to get into machine learning in 2026.
  • So today we’re chatting with the legendary Vicki Boykis.
  • She worked on LLMs at Mozilla.ai and today she’s a founding ML engineer at Malachyte, a New York startup doing real-time search and personalization for e-commerce.
  • So I asked her this simple question which is if you were starting learning this stuff in 2026, how would you actually do it?

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  • [1]How to Learn ML in 2026 interview
    Vicki Boykis · Oct 17, 12:00 AM
    I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Yacine of Deep Learning with Yacine.
    (Yacine) A lot of people asked me how to get into machine learning in 2026.

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