Parrot.vc
AI
text generation bot
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
39 positive, 29 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 12 critical, out of 82 comments about the project. Thread score +0.38.
Performance: 27 for, 4 againstIdea: 6 for, 3 againstExecution: 2 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Outputs are funny and convincingly VC-like
From 3 comments
> It's sad when people don't understand the value of a program that targets them. I mean I do see the value, I just don't like floppy pizza. This one made me laugh.
mreome on HNThis is hilarious. Can we get a blog on how you built it?
charlesju on HNworks well, it would have fooled me. The quotes are as bizarre as the real ones :-)
solso on HN
Objections
Output is mostly nonsensical
From 2 comments
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...
whalesalad on HNAgreed - nonsense. It appears to just be copying segments of tweets and matching words to join the phrases at that word.
calmworm on HN
Title's 'forced a bot' framing is misleading about how it works
From 1 comment
You really need to say that explicitly somewhere. The "I forced a bot" phrasing used in the current HN title is a clickbait trope that's not applicable here, and those "I forced…
minimaxir on HN
Requests
Release the source code and dataset
From 3 comments
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…
smacktoward on HN@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.
madisonmay on HNHi, can you make the tweets available?
zitterbewegung on HN
Show the sampled tweets on hover or in output
From 1 comment
Feature request: highlight the sampled text in the generated tweet when you hover over each source? Seems like you're 90% there
NoodleIncident on HN
Questions
How was it trained and how does it work
From 2 comments
How does it work?
zitterbewegung on HNHow did you train it? Adversarial neural network? Markov chain?
ummonk on HN
Alternatives named
Postmodernism generator
From 1 comment
"I stand with the people of China and that they need to hire researchers to design some new architecture, or anything extremely fancy." This is amazing. Reminds me of the…
mushufasa on HN
Markovify library
From 1 comment
An easy way to get started that doesn't use pure ML is Markovify [1]. I used it for a couple of projects last year. [1] - https://github.com/jsvine/markovify
pequalsnp on HN