Reita Williams
Reita Williams
AI governance practitioner, writer, and builder working at the intersection of transformer architecture, cultural theory, and the politics of machine learning.
What I do.
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I work at the intersection of AI systems and the people they affect, with a particular focus on how architectural decisions in language models encode assumptions about whose knowledge counts. I approach governance as a structural question about power and representation.
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I write about transformer architecture as a humanities text, AI governance as a cultural problem, and the gap between what these systems appear to do and what they are actually doing. My Medium series Sunday Reading is the long-form home for that thinking.
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I build implementations from scratch when writing about a mechanism stops being enough. My latest experiment microAttention is a scaled dot-product attention in pure Python .
I got tired of writing about how language models work without having built one. So I built scaled dot-product attention from scratch in pure Python and NumPy