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Re: Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content

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Post by mellosouls »

hyperpape wrote: post #2

I used my pinned tweet ( https://twitter.com/hyperpape/status/1050402656181735426 ) "Learning Perl6 is like being stuck in a small dark room with a bat that's flapping around wildly, and talking to the bat and slowly coming to understand what it is like to be a bat." and the results are quite good: https://same.energy/?q=Learning+Perl6+is+like+being+stuck+in... . I wouldn't say they 100% have the same energy in every…

I would say the results in your example are terrific; they seem completely of the same style (at least the first few, I stopped reading after that).

Re: Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content

#14

Post by searchableguy »

hyperpape wrote: post #2

I used my pinned tweet ( https://twitter.com/hyperpape/status/1050402656181735426 ) "Learning Perl6 is like being stuck in a small dark room with a bat that's flapping around wildly, and talking to the bat and slowly coming to understand what it is like to be a bat." and the results are quite good: https://same.energy/?q=Learning+Perl6+is+like+being+stuck+in... . I wouldn't say they 100% have the same energy in every…

Unless I am doing something wrong, searching for similar tweets to realdonaldtrump only results in his tweets.

https://same.energy/?q=The+Democrats+never+even+mentioned+th....

This could be used to de-anonymize people on twitter.

Edit: So I did a test for an old twitter account I don't have access to anymore. I was able to find it using my comments with few tries.

Re: Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content

#15

Post by dmurray »

mellosouls wrote: post #11
hyperpape wrote: post #2

I used my pinned tweet ( https://twitter.com/hyperpape/status/1050402656181735426 ) "Learning Perl6 is like being stuck in a small dark room with a bat that's flapping around wildly, and talking to the bat and slowly coming to understand what it is like to be a bat." and the results are quite good: https://same.energy/?q=Learning+Perl6+is+like+being+stuck+in... . I wouldn't say they 100% have the same energy in every…

I would say the results in your example are terrific; they seem completely of the same style (at least the first few, I stopped reading after that).

They're also generally funny and original! I'd take these ahead of a curated list of "20 funniest tweets about programming languages" [0] or, say, Reddit r/ProgrammerHumor all time top posts, so that's something that's difficult to achieve programmatically.

[0] OK, I didn't look for a source of these, because Google has the same inadequacies with recommending funny content. If anyone would like to recommend one, I'll read it to give a fair comparison.

Re: Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content

#16

Post by dmurray »

searchableguy wrote: post #14
hyperpape wrote: post #2

I used my pinned tweet ( https://twitter.com/hyperpape/status/1050402656181735426 ) "Learning Perl6 is like being stuck in a small dark room with a bat that's flapping around wildly, and talking to the bat and slowly coming to understand what it is like to be a bat." and the results are quite good: https://same.energy/?q=Learning+Perl6+is+like+being+stuck+in... . I wouldn't say they 100% have the same energy in every…

Unless I am doing something wrong, searching for similar tweets to realdonaldtrump only results in his tweets. https://same.energy/?q=The+Democrats+never+even+mentioned+th... . This could be used to de-anonymize people on twitter. Edit: So I did a test for an old twitter account I don't have access to anymore. I was able to find it using my comments with few tries.

I wonder if it sorts by popularity ahead of relevance (maybe after meeting some minimum threshold for relevance). In another post I've commented about the surprising high quality of the results.

@realdonaldtrump has huge reach on Twitter, as well as a distinctive style, so maybe there is no one who posts in a similar style (TBH I'd expect most to be parody accounts) who has achieved sufficient popularity to compete.

Re: Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content

#17

Post by glial »

hyperpape wrote: post #2

I used my pinned tweet ( https://twitter.com/hyperpape/status/1050402656181735426 ) "Learning Perl6 is like being stuck in a small dark room with a bat that's flapping around wildly, and talking to the bat and slowly coming to understand what it is like to be a bat." and the results are quite good: https://same.energy/?q=Learning+Perl6+is+like+being+stuck+in... . I wouldn't say they 100% have the same energy in every…

Style aside, these results are way way better quality than the typical curated Twitter feed.

> BlueSpaceCanaryTwitter "malloc" comes from the Latin "mal", meaning "bad" or "evil", and the abbreviation "LOC", meaning "lines of code.”

Re: Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content

#18

Post by nwsm »

jfax wrote: post #8

Immediately started punching in dril classics and am thoroughly impressed with the results. Well done.

Lol I did the exact same thing. I'm also impressed with the results, although I'm also getting a lot of other dril tweets back. Don't know if I should attribute that to OP, a flaw in the app, or to dril's consistency. I'll choose to believe it's the last one.

Re: Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content

#19

Post by content_sesh »

searchableguy wrote: post #14
hyperpape wrote: post #2

I used my pinned tweet ( https://twitter.com/hyperpape/status/1050402656181735426 ) "Learning Perl6 is like being stuck in a small dark room with a bat that's flapping around wildly, and talking to the bat and slowly coming to understand what it is like to be a bat." and the results are quite good: https://same.energy/?q=Learning+Perl6+is+like+being+stuck+in... . I wouldn't say they 100% have the same energy in every…

Unless I am doing something wrong, searching for similar tweets to realdonaldtrump only results in his tweets. https://same.energy/?q=The+Democrats+never+even+mentioned+th... . This could be used to de-anonymize people on twitter. Edit: So I did a test for an old twitter account I don't have access to anymore. I was able to find it using my comments with few tries.

Searching for a similar tweet to this one only netted one other Trump tweet:

https://same.energy/?q=The+Coca+Cola+company+is+not+happy+wi....

Re: Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content

#20

Post by boogies »

dmurray wrote: post #16
searchableguy wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless I am doing something wrong, searching for similar tweets to realdonaldtrump only results in his tweets. https://same.energy/?q=The+Democrats+never+even+mentioned+th... . This could be used to de-anonymize people on twitter. Edit: So I did a test for an old twitter account I don't have access to anymore. I was able to find it using my comments with few tries.

I wonder if it sorts by popularity ahead of relevance (maybe after meeting some minimum threshold for relevance). In another post I've commented about the surprising high quality of the results. @realdonaldtrump has huge reach on Twitter, as well as a distinctive style, so maybe there is no one who posts in a similar style (TBH I'd expect most to be parody accounts) who has achieved sufficient popularity to compete.

> maybe there is no one who posts in a similar style (TBH I'd expect most to be parody accounts) who has achieved sufficient popularity to compete

A couple pages down there are non-@realdonaldtrump tweets scattered here and there, always in pairs as far as I can see (https://twitter.com/majorbear70/status/1286690669826842626 & https://twitter.com/DavidWaddell5/status/1127214256636813313 https://same.energy/?q=I+heard+Bill+Clinton+might+be+joining..., and https://twitter.com/RealWayneRoot/status/1161435864506884096 & https://twitter.com/Mcphie00/status/1163080988085358592, Control-F to search), except scattered individual tweets from @RealDonaldTrFan

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