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

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Post by ijiiijji1 »

yjhoney wrote: post #58
corodra wrote: post #45

Okay, I've spent a little more time on this than I probably should have, but I think I realized something. The reason this works is mostly due to the VCs being generic in general. I've been reading the tweets they're based on and they're equally nonsense as the bot tweet. But bashing multiple tweets together, still produces something that's... coherent? I mean, yea, they're coherent. But it works because it lacks det…

Agreed. Most VCs are just that, useless sacks of breathing meat. For that reason, I've avoided them. Even during parties, I (unfairly) dismiss someone the moment I find out they are a VC and just invested in ...(insert famous tech here)... Based on personal experience, VCs are statistically more likely having a conversation with you thinking they are better than you the whole time (and therefore knows better). Not al…

There ought to be a VC shop named Hubris & Humble Pie LLP

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

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Post by pcmaffey »

corodra wrote: post #45

Okay, I've spent a little more time on this than I probably should have, but I think I realized something. The reason this works is mostly due to the VCs being generic in general. I've been reading the tweets they're based on and they're equally nonsense as the bot tweet. But bashing multiple tweets together, still produces something that's... coherent? I mean, yea, they're coherent. But it works because it lacks det…

VC is a pyramid scheme. A VC's entire focus is selling "a narrative" to other VCs, so they can push their portfolio companies' next round or raise their next fund.

Only a rare few treat their portfolio companies as customers and not the product.

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

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Post by apsdsm »

nloui wrote: post #48
dozzman wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just got the same one... Are they pre-generated maybe? Edit: Link: https://www.parrot.vc/-LvAxcZD23ySp2dL0sZw

They generate on a cron job every 15 minutes and I also pass the site through a Cloudflare cache because I'm cheap and the actual code runs on a $5 DigitalOcean box :-)

That’s not cheap: that’s smart. Knowing this makes me like the whole thing even more.

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

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corodra wrote: post #45

Okay, I've spent a little more time on this than I probably should have, but I think I realized something. The reason this works is mostly due to the VCs being generic in general. I've been reading the tweets they're based on and they're equally nonsense as the bot tweet. But bashing multiple tweets together, still produces something that's... coherent? I mean, yea, they're coherent. But it works because it lacks det…

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

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Post by wtracy »

Most of the ones I got looked like they were generated from replies to other tweets. The lack of context made them boring, even if that makes it easier to make them comprehensible. (I would love to see this experiment run on a dataset that filtered out reply tweets.)

But then, it have me this gem:

"It's sad when people don't understand the value of a program that targets them. I mean I do see the value, I just don't like floppy pizza."

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