Dimitris Kotsakos

Loves basketball, watches and cars. Manages ML Core @elastic, previously @SkroutzDevs, @Workable, @Twitter

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

@douros @matinathom @jkapsi @emufear @vtripolitakis Πολύ ωραίο Βαγγέλη! Σαν part 2 θα έβαζα τι μπορεί να κάνει κάποιος που σπουδάζει Πληροφορική στην Ελλάδα και στο εξωτερικό (και με παραδείγματα). Πιστεύω ότι πάρα πολλά παιδιά δεν έχουν την παραμικρή ιδέα λόγω ελλιπέστατης πληροφόρησης.

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

@mibdude @FlyManoloFly This was indoors though. Makes sense but still, in my eyes it’s 3rd of all time in outdoors 😜 and if you count in humidity in Volos these days I may even count it as 2nd all time 😁

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

Cocktail world fell apart. @ one of Greece’s best beach islands, Lefkada (= Whitey), @ one my fav summer bars. Got a Paloma. Barman shook the mix and (then, thank god) added a bit of Grapefruit soda! Then, bitters! Def not a Paloma. Drink is really good though. Come to Lefkada!

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

@douros Career guidance and orientation gone really bad

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

Rarely do I give shoutouts, but big thanks to Kostas Stoupakis from @ourwallet! His professionalism, depth of knowledge, and impeccable manners deserve recognition. It’s a privilege to work with someone of his caliber!

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

Trying to drink a stout to relax after a long day and at the same time learning from her all about recipes, ingredients and Rails models needed to model all that, go figure! @banditaras ♥️ 🚀

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

Gotcha! #backgammon #grandmaster I am! 😎

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

Great respect to you, @rudy5fernandez, for an outstanding career! After many hard-fought battles, we finally claimed our sweet victory this year. Enjoy your well-deserved retirement—you'll be missed in the game! From a #paobc fan

[Pau Gasol @paugasol]

LEYENDA de nuestro deporte!!! Las hemos pasado de todos colores y puedo decir que cualquier calificativo se queda corto para tu gran carrera dentro y fuera de la selección.
#LaFamilia te va a echar mucho, mucho, mucho de menos @rudy5fernandez!! Aunque tu ejemplo y legado siempre estará presente.❤️ #histórico #Leyenda

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

Thank you, Kemba! You’ll be missed!

[Kemba Walker @KembaWalker]

Thank you, basketball.

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

@dionisis_lef Διαφωνώ στο Game3, νομίζω πήραμε αρκετά #paobc

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

Edin Terzić nailed it: 'You can study for years, listen to many talks, and do all your badges, but it all feels different once you’re in front of 25 people from as many countries.'

100% true and applies to all #management, including engineering. Real experience is irreplaceable

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

Living in Europe and working with a brilliant colleague from New Zealand is a great experience and has been pushing the limits of async distributed work!

I still though cannot get used to this - very well implemented @SlackHQ feature - I always think he is from the future!!

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

Building Elastic Cloud Serverless, a technical deep dive into the architecture of our Serverless offering

#serverless #elasticsearch #genai

https://t.co/DIGOCqeWNR

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

@FCBBasketball @paobcgr Vielen Dank, viel Spaß beim Spiel heute Abend!! #paobc ☘️☘️

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

Huge indeed!

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use!

This is going to change the landscape of the LLM market.
Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Azure and will be available on AWS, Hugging Face and other providers

Pretrained and fine-tuned models are available with 7B, 13B and 70B parameters.

Llama-2 website: https://t.co/PKrrXgHdem
Llama-2 paper: https://t.co/aINNrXNhMb

A number of personalities from industry and academia have endorsed our open source approach: https://t.co/N7HwgW9Suh

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

Diligently and scientifically avoiding cross-contamination in the kitchen is next to impossible. One more hand would be good. #cooking

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

I will always be very proud of what this team achieved! Although I don't like public thanks, this one is the exception, @banditaras and @nemlah thank you for offering me the opportunity to work in the first greek scale up! I will always love this place! rocket and raised hands 🚀

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

The previous week was my last one at @SkroutzDevs. For some very joyful 6 years I worked through a variety of roles and watching things from some distance now feels a bit weird. @skroutzit has been constantly changing people's buying behaviour in Greece.

[Dimitris Kotsakos @dimkots]

I met some of the best people in the industry, and I learned how important it is to have passion in what you do. We went through a lot of ups and downs, however what remains are the very tight relationships we built along with the engineering challenges we faced.