Drew Farris

About The Author

Drew Farris is a professional software developer and technology consultant whose interests focus on large scale analytics, distributed computing and machine learning. Previously, he worked at TextWise where he implemented a wide variety of text exploration, management and retrieval applications combining natural language processing, classification and visualization techniques. He has contributed to a number of open source projects including Apache Mahout, Lucene and Solr, and holds a master's degree in Information Resource Management from Syracuse University's iSchool and a B.F.A in Computer Graphics.

Books by Drew Farris

How Large Language Models Work
By Edward Raff, Drew Farris and Stella Biderman
Learn how large language models like GPT and Gemini work under the hood in plain English.

How Large Language Models Work translates years of expert research on Large Language Models into a readable, focused introduction to working with these amazing systems. It explains clear...
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Taming Text

How to Find, Organize, and Manipulate It

By Grant Ingersoll, Thomas S. Morton and Drew Farris
Summary

Taming Text, winner of the 2013 Jolt Awards for Productivity, is a hands-on, example-driven guide to working with unstructured text in the context of real-world applications. This book explores how to automatically organize text using approaches such as full-text sear...
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