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

Post by ykevinator » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 12:16 AM UTC

Post by nloui » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 1:12 AM UTC

whalesalad wrote: post #82

nloui wrote: post #64

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Born and raised!

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!

Post by StuffedParrot » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 1:55 AM UTC

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…

Post by heavyset_go » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 2:11 AM UTC

nloui wrote: post #60

madisonmay wrote: post #54

@nloui any chance you're willing to share your dataset? Would be fun to replicate this with GPT-2 fine-tuning instead of a Markov chain.

Sure, I should be able to throw it onto a repo later.

Post by pequalsnp » Thu, Dec 05, 2019, 2:19 AM UTC

smacktoward wrote: post #84

nloui wrote: post #2

Parrot.vc is a bot trained on tens of thousands of VC tweets that uses predictive text to generate amazing, new startup advice. Share your favorites! Gavin Belson - hit me up, this is the perfect acquisition for Hooli. PS - you can follow Parrot.vc on Twitter as well ( https://twitter.com/parrot_vc )

Is the source code available anywhere? I’ve been mulling over a similar project but don’t have a lot of ML experience myself, would be great to look at the innards of a working example...