sKeskin, preparing for the contemporary era
See some of my projects, in which summarize the area of my work, interests, and alongside showing experience and skills.
A fork of LLaMA.cpp swift.example, demonstrating what can be done with it on an iPad locally without apple imposed memory limitations like we see in other apps.
Using faster-whisper and ollama, this project creates not only real time transcription, but also translates it to the language of your choice, such as Turkish.
A simple metaverse project, where you can live another life in a virtual world.
Literature Graduate
During my college years, for unknown reasons, I developed a fondness for programming, which in my opinion is just another form of literature, unrelated to maths unless you are a computer doing the calculations. What started as curiosity evolved into a passion that eventually overshadowed my academic field.
While my formal education is in literature, I've found that the analytical thinking and problem-solving approach I learned there transfers surprisingly well to programming. My literature background taught me to deconstruct complex texts and ideas - a skill that's proven valuable when breaking down complex programming problems.
As I did programming with numerous tools for years (since 2020-2021 I regularly write programs for myself) as a hobby regularly; I can safely say my computing&engineering&programming skills have exceeded my literary skills, and that if given the necessary documents, I can accomplish anything given&asked at this point, but it'll take time if I have little to no experience with them! (I truly think programming is just building up experience at this point, you cant just know a programming language!)
I've embraced this unconventional path from humanities to technology, and while I may not be utilizing my literature degree in the traditional sense, the critical thinking and communication skills it provided have been invaluable in my tech journey. My interdisciplinary background gives me a unique perspective when approaching technical challenges.
My favorite productive hobby -other than general purpose programming for my needs&solving my own problems- is Large Language Models and I follow the developments since I discovered sentence transformers in late summer 2022 (I was pretty late), I have been doing my experiments too since then (such as by fine-tuning and pre-training experiments of my own)
Here, I attempted to move the company itself into using local LLM solutions, and in my opinion, I did my best for 3 months.
However, the company itself didn't think I was doing enough to contribute to the company, (I was given unrelated tasks that I obviously didnt excell at (such as automation using hardcoded processes), and I did most I could using local LLM instead) so I resigned after mutual inability to communicate, but most importantly, the fact that I wasn't learning anything new and improving myself was a major factor for this.
Completed an additional year of pedagogical training that qualifies graduates from non-education faculties to become eligible to teach in schools. This certification program extended my academic studies from 4 to 5 years.
Polandball Roleplay can be thought as Club Penguin clone, with countries as blobs instead of penguins.
Despite majority of it being a negative experience due to my youth, inexperience, and questionable management, This is where I practiced many of my skills, and was the main reason why I learned programming.
As vibe coding wasnt possible back then, I also gained researching skills and familiarity with many programming languages that I don't even use nowadays (such as PHP).
This is also where my habit of working from evening to morning (especially after 2019) without a break (so, consecutively. I used to spend 8-12 hours coding, programming, debugging, etc.) started, as I was free during those times due to school and later, college.
