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Share your favorites! Gavin Belson - hit me up,…",[61,67,73],{"value":62,"source":55,"evidence":63},"Markov chain",[64],{"id":65,"by":11,"text":66},"21707493","It's a markov chain trained on around 65,000 tweets from around 50 VC's.",{"value":68,"source":55,"evidence":69},"Cloudflare cache",[70],{"id":71,"by":11,"text":72},"21707665","They generate on a cron job every 15 minutes and I also pass the site through a Cloudflare cache because I'm cheap and the actual code runs on a $5 DigitalOcean box :-)",{"value":74,"source":55,"evidence":75},"DigitalOcean server",[76],{"id":71,"by":11,"text":72},"unknown","launched",{"praise":80,"objections":97,"requests":116,"questions":139,"alternatives":150},[81],{"value":82,"source":83,"evidence":84},"Outputs are funny and convincingly VC-like","commenter",[85,89,93],{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"21707598","mreome","> 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.",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"21707583","charlesju","This is hilarious. Can we get a blog on how you built it?",{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"21707518","solso","works well, it would have fooled me. The quotes are as bizarre as the real ones :-)",[98,109],{"value":99,"source":83,"evidence":100},"Output is mostly nonsensical",[101,105],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"21707433","whalesalad","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...",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"21707514","calmworm","Agreed - nonsense. It appears to just be copying segments of tweets and matching words to join the phrases at that word.",{"value":110,"source":83,"evidence":111},"Title's 'forced a bot' framing is misleading about how it works",[112],{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"21707666","minimaxir","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…",[117,132],{"value":118,"source":83,"evidence":119},"Release the source code and dataset",[120,124,128],{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"21709066","smacktoward","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…",{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"21707717","madisonmay","@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.",{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"21714131","zitterbewegung","Hi, can you make the tweets available?",{"value":133,"source":83,"evidence":134},"Show the sampled tweets on hover or in output",[135],{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"21707578","NoodleIncident","Feature request: highlight the sampled text in the generated tweet when you hover over each source? Seems like you're 90% there",[140],{"value":141,"source":83,"evidence":142},"How was it trained and how does it work",[143,146],{"id":144,"by":130,"text":145},"21707447","How does it work?",{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"21708413","ummonk","How did you train it? Adversarial neural network? 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