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I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by tehlike »

saeedesmaili wrote: post #16

After reading this I realized I also have an archive of my pocket account (4200 items), so tried the same prompt with o3, gemini 2.5 pro, and opus 4: - chatgpt UI didn't allow me to submit the input, saying it's too large. Although it was around 80k tokens, less than o3's 200k context size. - gemini 2.5 pro: worked fine for personality and interest related parts of the profile, but it failed the age range, job role,…

You should take this as a sign, and shoot for SWE jobs - given your interest.

What you do at work today doesn't mean you can't switch to a related ladder.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by juliendorra »

saeedesmaili wrote: post #16

After reading this I realized I also have an archive of my pocket account (4200 items), so tried the same prompt with o3, gemini 2.5 pro, and opus 4: - chatgpt UI didn't allow me to submit the input, saying it's too large. Although it was around 80k tokens, less than o3's 200k context size. - gemini 2.5 pro: worked fine for personality and interest related parts of the profile, but it failed the age range, job role,…

You should be able to use Google Takeout to get all of your YouTube data, including your watch history.

This article is a nice example of someone using it:

> When I downloaded all my YouTube data, I’ve noticed an interesting file included. That file was named watch-history and it contained a list of all the videos I’ve ever watched.

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/youtube-usage/

Of course as an European it's a legal obligation for companies to give you access, but I think Google Takeout works worldwide?

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by Mossly »

hubraumhugo wrote: post #23

I built a similar tool that profiles/roasts your HN account: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/ It’s funny and occasionally scary Edit: be aware, usernames are case sensitive

Very neat, this kind of classification & sentiment analysis with flavour text is a use case where LLMs really shine.

For whatever reason, I'm getting an error in the Server Components render when trying my username. My first thought was that it might be due to having no submissions, just comments — but other users with no submissions appear to work just fine.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by marknutter »

cainxinth wrote: post #3

I do this to determine if a person I'm talking to online is potentially a troll. I copy a big chunk of their comment and post history into an LLM and ask for a profile. The last few years, I've noticed an uptick in "concern trolls" that pretend to support a group or cause while subtly working to undermine it. LLMs can't make the ultimate judgement call very well, but they can quickly summarize enough information for…

"Concern troll" is usually just at term that people who want zero pushback lob at people who don't agree with them 100% of the time.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by Mossly »

gavinray wrote: post #29
hubraumhugo wrote: post #23

I built a similar tool that profiles/roasts your HN account: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/ It’s funny and occasionally scary Edit: be aware, usernames are case sensitive

Doesn't work for me > An error occurred in the Server Components render. The specific message is omitted in production builds to avoid leaking sensitive details.

Ironically, running your username works for me, but not my own. Maybe you can view it now? https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/gavinray?share

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by pixl97 »

cainxinth wrote: post #3

I do this to determine if a person I'm talking to online is potentially a troll. I copy a big chunk of their comment and post history into an LLM and ask for a profile. The last few years, I've noticed an uptick in "concern trolls" that pretend to support a group or cause while subtly working to undermine it. LLMs can't make the ultimate judgement call very well, but they can quickly summarize enough information for…

One thing I've seen happen with some of these accounts is they remove a lot of their posts after some period of time.

So they make somewhat consistent 'generic' posts that do not get remove, but do not really convey any signal on their actual views.

Then in their last 24-48 hours there are more political style posts/concern posts that only stick around while the article/post is getting views. Then replies disappear like they've never happened so you can't tell it's an account that exists wholly to manipulate others that has been doing so for months.

Then quite often after a month or two the accounts disappear totally.

Re: I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links

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Post by Mossly »

morkalork wrote: post #8

I've been thinking about the possibities of using an LLM to sort through all my tabs; I'm one of those dreadful hoarders that has been living with the ":D" count on my phone for too long. Usually I purge them periodically but I haven't had the motivation to do do so in a long time. I just need an easy way to dump them to a csv or something like OP has from pocket.

I did this recently with my unsorted bookmarks! It was the first time I used parallel API calls. Ten gpt-4-nano threads classifying batches of ten bookmarks ripped through 10,000 bookmarks in a few minutes.
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