Julia Turc
@juliarturc
Founder of @StoriaAI (YC S24) | Ex-Google Research
Damn 3blue1brown why couldn't you give me a couple more weeks to finish my diffusion video. This is the equivalent of OpenAI casually killing a bunch of startups with a little feature release.
Currently d̶e̶l̶v̶i̶n̶g̶ diving into diffusion for my next video. Which of these aspects are you most curious about?
Asked ChatGPT to help plan my week and it started by asking when my period was due ("for energy management"). Still deciding between being outraged and impressed.
I told ChatGPT to alert me when it senses perfectionism and rabbit holes. Today it drew the line when I asked it to suggest books about brownian motion while studying diffusion models.
Just realized today that looking at someone's GitHub is also dead as a hiring signal. I cried inside a little. What's left? Random selection + short trial contract?
Morning habit: wake up, report spam on 10 emails that promise to 10x my leads, start working.
I'm looking for an intern to help with my YouTube videos. You'll be coding animations, editing and creating companion assets (write-ups, etc.). You must have a solid foundation in machine learning, attention to detail, and be in a timezone within 3 hours of PST. If interested,…
I sometimes wonder how many JavaScripts the AI era is going to give us. Things that were vibe-coded over a weekend with no foresight that will haunt us for a couple of decades just because they were first on the market.
The most exciting moment for a naturalized citizen is when “enjoy your stay” turns into “welcome home”. Warms your heart. I’ll check this off as my belated happy birthday America post 🇺🇸
the best part of any international travel is when you get back and the border agent says “welcome home”
Finally watched the Peter Thiel interview just to understand the memes. I thought @DouthatNYT was brilliant. I found myself watching just to hear his next question or rebuttal. I’m not religious but I might read his books just because he seems like a great thinker. Is that an…
Best timing of my life: switching to Claude Code right before the Cursor rug pull. Worst timing of my life: Moving to NYC right before Covid.
After just one morning with Claude Code, I'm really impressed. ✅ On-point search for docs & code samples online ✅ Good leverage of current session (doesn't get into as many loops) ✅ Better UX than Cursor chat box (more structure, more transparency) Ideally I'd switch to…