Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC

Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by whalesalad on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:42PM (#21707433)

I clicked through like 15 of these and they were all pretty nonsensical. Not sure if this is more damning of tweets from VC's or the bot itself...

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Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by nloui on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:45PM (#21707471)

Haha I'm sure it's somewhere in the middle. Never said it was the smartest algorithm. If you hover over the VC's name, it'll show the actual tweet that was sampled.

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Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by whalesalad on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:25PM (#21707889)

You wouldn't happen to be from the La Cañada area of SoCal would you?

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Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by nloui on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @05:38PM (#21707991)

Born and raised!

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Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by whalesalad on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @07:46PM (#21708875)

I’m pretty sure I used to see a physical therapist as a kid who knew you well. She knew I was building websites and told me about you and what you were working on. If I remember correctly you used to be quite stoked about Coldfusion. What a small world!

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Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by nloui on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:12PM (#21709044)

Jane?! That is a small world and a great memory! I used to be a huge ColdFusion fan.

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Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by NoodleIncident on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:54PM (#21707578)

Feature request: highlight the sampled text in the generated tweet when you hover over each source? Seems like you're 90% there

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Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by calmworm on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:48PM (#21707514)

Agreed - nonsense. It appears to just be copying segments of tweets and matching words to join the phrases at that word.

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Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by LeftHandPath on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @10:04PM (#21709624)

Eh, could be Markov chains or some similar-but-unique implementation with a little more logic.

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Re:Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC twe... by barkingcat on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:43PM (#21707444)

It's damning of VC's. Most VC tweets pretty much look like that.

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