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Larissa Okabayashi23
Campinas, SP, Brazil
A technology enthusiast for good ;)
Scholarships
Larissa has been awarded a WWDC scholarship two times. Here are the submissions that got her there.
In 2025, applicants were tasked with creating an interactive app playground on the topic of their choice to showcase their passion for coding. Here’s how Larissa describes her winning submission.
In Yume’s Spellbook, I aimed to create an intuitive and playful experience where users learn how language models work by helping Yume, craft magical spells. Through interactive storytelling, players collect ingredients like "magical power" for computation, "raw texts" as data, and "cooking rules" as hyperparameters to train a language model. This metaphor gamifies the complex concepts behind large language models (LLMs), fostering engagement and understanding without technical complexity.