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Re:Ask HN: What's the Fuzz about Taste? on Thursday July 09, 2026 @09:52AM (#48845855)
Emily Segal has excellent reporting on 'tasteslop'

https://nemesisglobal.substack.com/p/tasteslop

More practically, people who work at AI startups are starting to realize that money and power can't fix everything and they are being met with hostility.

I have met several people working at frontier labs who legitimately feel that what they are doing is making the world a worse place and that a disgusting amount of money is not enough to assuage their apprehensions. They cannot even look people in the eye and tell them what they do. Maybe shame is good op-sec.

You've all managed to successfully alienate the entire creative class.

In any case, C-suite has realized that the regulatory regime depends on public consumer sentiment. The current range of products do not pacify the masses. There is a real, visceral feeling that these tools are polluting the world around us with low-quality media with malicious purposes by a growing cadre of vying interests.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026) on Monday May 04, 2026 @12:07PM (#48010510)
Location: New York, NY

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Mathematics, LLMs

Resume: Available on request.

Email: info[at]odomojuli.com

10+ years in AI and robotics in Los Angeles, California. Currently based in New York City. Strong focus on formal methods, system reliability, and LLM-based systems. I optimize for correctness, reproducibility, and measurable performance under constraint. I work well in environments where rigor and proof-of-behavior matter more than narrative.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2025) on Monday January 06, 2025 @11:05AM (#42611689)
Location: SF

Remote: On-prem only.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Email: info{U+0040}odomojuli.com

Technologies: math, ai

Bio: I make robots. Because it's coool.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2024) on Thursday August 01, 2024 @08:42PM (#41135102)
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: SF or Paris

Technologies: mathematics, llm's, m1 macbook air, 16GB, valid US passport, basic non-english proficiency, like no actual personal responsibilities.

Resume: Email me.

Email: info[U+0040]odomojuli[U+002E]com

The brackets are unicode, honestly it's just `'@'` and `'.'`

Give me weird.

Re:Ask HN: Who Wants a Penpal? on Thursday July 04, 2024 @05:37PM (#40878256)
Absolutely not! I think if I focused on maybe, one language I could see adopting basic proficiency and fluency by the US State Dept's rubric in like... 44-ish weeks, some languages 66+.

What is helping is that this is training my ear and tongue, it's becoming more comfortable to transition between grammars and pronunciations.

Re:Ask HN: Who Wants a Penpal? on Thursday July 04, 2024 @02:56PM (#40877169)
alias: J.

interests: mathematics, cooking/recipes, culture/arts

languages: Please write to me in any language from anywhere!! And please send math papers!! I'm trying to learn as many languages as I can right now. My current focus is French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German – then Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Korean, Arabic, and Haitian Creole. I'm going to focus op top-30 most spoken-by-people, then top 30 most spoken-by-countries, then a survey of languages without any incentive (Navajo, Irish, Greek, Hawaiian, Latin, Sanskrit, in general, Classical Languages, Medieval Languages, Modern Languages). I started this journey in August 2023 knowing only N1 Japanese.

link to something you think is cool: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3027072 I would so love to do whole Erdős wanderer thing and focus on publishing papers in different countries with different people in different languages. I like the whole peripatetic element of thinking and living and working and dreaming.

link to something that does not exist: I am building a 'tiny' LLM that is taking a novel approach to language translation. It is incredibly nice to continue this research because I have begun to actually understand more people now and I feel less lonely. It is getting better, but I am absolutely not in any hurry to capitalize on it. I can send you samples of its output by hand in parallel to my own manual translation.

Contact: Write me an email, and we can exchange mailing addresses!

> info[U+0040]odomojuli[U+002E]com

Note: I really love postcards, postage, lettering and hand-made art prints. If you have any appreciation for these things, please let me know – it can take a bit of effort.

If you are interested in dressing better, just email me. I won't charge you $500/hr. Take pride in your appearance. I would love for San Francisco to start dressing appropriately.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2024) on Monday April 01, 2024 @05:07PM (#39899347)
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes, Hybrid OK

Willing to Relocate: San Francisco / Paris (I am learning French).

Technologies: Dude, I just want to work on something weird and cool. Greenfield, moonshot – like anything that is trying to do things differently.

Email: info[U+0040]odomojuli.com

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2023) on Monday May 01, 2023 @06:49PM (#35780353)
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes SEEKING WORK

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Technologies: machine learning, python, javascript, sql

Resume/CV: Available upon request.

Email: info[at]odomojuli.com

Note: I'm good at what I do. Fair work for fair pay.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2023) on Monday May 01, 2023 @06:48PM (#35780341)
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: machine learning, python, javascript, sql

Resume/CV: Available upon request.

Email: info[at]odomojuli.com

Note: I'm good at what I do. Fair work for fair pay.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023) on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @06:59PM (#35446985)
Location: Los Angeles

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: I optimize machine learning models to fit on a laptop.

Résumé / CV: Upon request.

Email: [email protected]

This is common among musicians.

To your point, to preserve stability for their plug-ins of choice. Especially if they're interested in a specific version of Pro Tools or Logic.

Airgapping is simple if all you have is ethernet. Just remember to backup your hard drive.

I say do it.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2022) on Friday December 02, 2022 @03:26PM (#33836411)
Location: West Hollywood, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Data Science / Machine Learning, C, C++, React, SQL

Resume: Available upon request.

Email: info[at]odomojuli.com

Bio: Math background. 7+ years experience in ML/DS. Recent experience in biomedical devices, automation pipelines, predictive analytics, financial modeling. Security clearance: OK.

I like weird ideas. Making money doing weird ideas is a plus.

The only thing you need to know about me is that I try to be pleasant.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2022) on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @02:07PM (#30518548)
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Machine Learning, Data Science, Quantitative Finance, Python, R, Julia, React, PostgreSQL, C++, mathematics.

Resume / CV: Available on request.

Email: [email protected]

Website: odomojuli.com

I am a mathematician. My career is working as a machine learning researcher and data scientist. I specialize in developing operations infrastructure for data pipelines and model deployment. To this end, I concern myself with web standards, accessible design and lifecycle management of a product from prototype to production. This involves a fair amount of working across departments and extensive documentation.

I am looking for an ambitious opportunity, particularly greenfield projects.

The most important thing to know about me:

I am told that I'm pleasant to work with. I genuinely enjoy doing what I do, with a sense of calm and professional acumen. Generally, HackerNews has been courteous towards me and I try to be receptive to that courtesy.

If this interests you, please feel free to reach out!

Ask HN: What was that "same vibe” Image Comparison tool called?

I vaguely recall seeing a website somewhere called "these are the same vibe" or something that compiled images of a similar aesthetic using gpt-3 or something?I want to pursue more research in that direction but lost the url.Basically you upload or select an image and it would give you tumblr-style a gallery of similar or related items.

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