Thomas Packer
About Thomas Packer
First, a plug for a very small bootstrapped startup looking for a cofounder with web development, LLM, and/or publishing industry experience. No income yet, but they would split equity fairly (think Slicing Pie). Let me know if you are interested. --- I am a data scientist with particular interest in natural language processing (NLP) and goal-oriented conversational AI (CAI). I earned a PhD in computer science using ontologies and machine learning to extract information from noisy text, and an MS in CS working on statistical natural language generation. I have also done over a decade of software engineering and DS work in several industries. To recruiters and sales: I am not interested in doing software engineering per se any more, but I am very much hands-on with coding as a data scientist which includes production coding. I am also not interested in connecting with anyone in sales or biz dev; I'm not the right person for you to talk to at the Home Depot. For now, I will be focusing my career on conversational AI because of (1) my passion, (2) my experience, and (3) the ever-growing market and fun challenges. If you are genuinely interested in conversational AI, please help us grow our open Slack workspace on this topic by following the link below. Once we get up to about 200 people, this will start becoming a valuable resource. We're half way there. https://join.slack.com/t/cai-dialog/shared_invite/zt-woqsbfbo-LFDevmzhos4I_AoWcuBIuQ If you would like to connect with me on LinkedIn, please add a personalized message. Please, no sales connections unless you already know I'm the right person for you to contact. It's amazing how many job titles Sales people hide behind. Btw, if you are coming to Utah, consider renting my basement apartment on Airbnb: airbnb.com/h/packers-pad