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Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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Post by mvATM99 »

specproc wrote: post #44
cyrusradfar wrote: post #40

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great use case for using AI to suggest mergers and clean up.

LLMs are awful for this. I've got a project that's doing structured extraction and half the work is deduplication. I didn't go down the route of LLMs for the clean up, as you're getting into scale and context issues with larger datasets. I got into semantic similarity networks for this use case. You can do efficient pairwise matching with Annoy, set a cutoff threshold, and your isolated subgraphs are merger candidate…

Nice looking library! Might try it for one of my own projects.

Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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Post by potato3732842 »

adolph wrote: post #55
liotier wrote: post #8

"Brad Edwards" and "Bradley Edwards" might be the same individual.

I read a recent observation that people subject to discovery are often making purposeful typos in key names in order for the communication to remain under the radar.

Everyone is potentially subject to discovery. Some people are just more aware of it.

Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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Post by bamboozled »

pjc50 wrote: post #127
bamboozled wrote: post #41

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Yes almost no one has been held accountable for any of it, "weird"?

Not really, given that anyone who might hold them accountable is also in the graph somewhere. It is very funny that the "unaccountability shield" stops at the US border, though, so it's taken out Prince Andrew.

Shouldn't he be in jail? I wouldn't say it's taken him out ?

Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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Post by pohl »

theultdev wrote: post #85
pohl wrote: post #73

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Could you explain how “no confirmed meeting” implies “they never met”?

You think he snuck out from secret service and had an off-the-book thanksgiving with a pedo? I'm saying there's no direct evidence he did and on face value it's ridiculous. He was meeting the troops and golfing with Tiger Woods and happened to be in the same state Epstein had a house in. Have any evidence otherwise, or just conspiracy theories?

With any other administration I would have granted you that leap in logic, but we already learned, three years ago, from Stephanie Grisham that he held off the books meetings specifically to circumvent record keeping laws. So I think a slightly higher standard of evidence is needed before we dismiss the possibility that he met with the pedo who likely had dirt on him.

Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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Post by pjc50 »

bamboozled wrote: post #133
pjc50 wrote: post #127

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Not really, given that anyone who might hold them accountable is also in the graph somewhere. It is very funny that the "unaccountability shield" stops at the US border, though, so it's taken out Prince Andrew.

Shouldn't he be in jail? I wouldn't say it's taken him out ?

"Should", maybe, but given that the witness is dead no reasonable prospect of a conviction, regardless of the aggravating factors of it being hard to secure a conviction for someone famous, or for so long after the event. He's losing a lot of money and seems to be being cut off by his family, at least.

Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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Post by marginalia_nu »

boogheta wrote: post #58

It's a bit too bad that the network visualisation relies on d3: it is really slow with big networks, and the force directed algorithm is far from the best. Have you tried using JS libraries built specifically to visualise graph networks such as Sigma.js, Vivagraph or Cytoscape?

What do you have to run to use this thing?

I have a 4090 and 32 GB of RAM and this thing is chugging at like 2 FPS, with the UI being completely unresponsive.

Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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Post by rayiner »

ben_w wrote: post #124
rayiner wrote: post #110

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You're proving the point here. You don't need to trust the media or care about his views on immigration to know that the guy got 34 felony convictions (for attempting to cover up mere infidelity with a porn star), that he's lost a lawsuit regarding sexual assault claims, and that sexual assault claims against him go back to the 70s and involving at least 28 women and him walking in on naked teenage pageant contestant…

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Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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Post by ben_w »

rayiner wrote: post #137
ben_w wrote: post #124

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You're proving the point here. You don't need to trust the media or care about his views on immigration to know that the guy got 34 felony convictions (for attempting to cover up mere infidelity with a porn star), that he's lost a lawsuit regarding sexual assault claims, and that sexual assault claims against him go back to the 70s and involving at least 28 women and him walking in on naked teenage pageant contestant…

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> Show me where it’s a felony to use your own money to cover up an affair?

The "falsified business records" bit, for which he was convicted under felony charges. Those bits, where he was convicted as a felon, are what makes it a felony.

Likewise, it wasn't a crime for Bill Clinton to have an affair with any of the White House interns (AFAICT Paula Jones was before then), but then Clinton went and lied about affairs under oath, which was.

There's a reason why I put emphasis on "mere infidelity".

> My esteemed colleagues in the bar would be outraged if a legal theory half as aggressively creative as this one was brought against a gang murderer. They would leap at the chance to handle the appeals pro bono.

The fact he was convicted says otherwise on the first part, and the observation that he's still having trouble getting competent lawyers to defend him even now he's back in office speaks poorly of either your esteemed colleagues or of your estimation of them.

Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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Post by Zigurd »

rayiner wrote: post #113
wredcoll wrote: post #98

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> cut ties after learning he was poaching girls from Mar-a-Lago. This is, uh, not the slam dunk you seem to think it is.

Yes it is. Trump cut ties because Epstein was poaching employees. That was confirmed by the employee in question, Virginia Giuffre, who always maintained that she was a normal masseuse at Mar-a-Lago: https://abcnews.go.com/US/virginia-giuffre-trump-jeffrey-eps...

You swallowed "Trump cut ties" whole, on a thread discussing messages that prove that wasn't the case. Wow. If I'm ever accused of dozens of felonious depravities I'mma call you.

Re: A graph explorer of the Epstein emails

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Post by rayiner »

ben_w wrote: post #138
rayiner wrote: post #137

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> Show me where it’s a felony to use your own money to cover up an affair? The "falsified business records" bit, for which he was convicted under felony charges. Those bits, where he was convicted as a felon, are what makes it a felony. Likewise, it wasn't a crime for Bill Clinton to have an affair with any of the White House interns (AFAICT Paula Jones was before then), but then Clinton went and lied about affairs u…

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