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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 all_blue_chucks »

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…

Probably because meaningless platitudes sound better than "the last company like this was sold for $20MM and we think we can duplicate that success for $10MM."

Honesty isn't usually inspiring.

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 nloui »

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...

I may open source it. It's pretty easy to get started if you leverage pre-existing libraries for Markov chains and Twitter ingestion.

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 other_herbert »

dondudu wrote: post #9

> Income inequality is an enormous problem. What do you use it for? ... this is amazing.

"Maybe in some niche B2B fields I don't know your people just randomly die in your house while you are there."

I hope these weren't related

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 LeftHandPath »

calmworm wrote: post #18
whalesalad wrote: post #4

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...

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

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

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 chirau »

macandcheese wrote: post #70
yjhoney wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I read this in Gilfoyle's voice.

"You mean Earning Man?"

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 tlrobinson »

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…

Someone should do the same thing for Hacker News comments. I feel like "Most VCs are just that, useless sacks of breathing meat." is precisely the type of sentence that would come out of it.
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