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by nloui 6y ago
Looking forward to tracking this project. I totally get it.
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by nloui 6y ago
Very cool. Also just signed up for your product beta.
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Show HN: A super simple REST API for John Hopkins COVID-19 data
3 points by nloui 7y ago|0 comments
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by nloui 7y ago
I may open source it. It's pretty easy to get started if you leverage pre-existing libraries for Markov chains and Twitter ingestion.
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by nloui 7y ago
Jane?! That is a small world and a great memory! I used to be a huge ColdFusion fan.
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by nloui 7y ago
Sure, definitely. Or just retrain Parrot on VC Medium articles and have it write itself :-)
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by nloui 7y ago
Born and raised!
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by nloui 7y ago
Sure, I should be able to throw it onto a repo later.
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by nloui 7y ago
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 :-)
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by nloui 7y ago
Hmmm I hadn't thought of that. That's a great point.
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by nloui 7y ago
Yep!
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by nloui 7y ago
Hah oh jeez.
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by nloui 7y ago
Ugh my relationship with Spectrum
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by nloui 7y ago
Hah that's pretty good
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by nloui 7y ago
Perfect - starting the AngelList syndicate right now. Haha
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by nloui 7y ago
It's a markov chain trained on around 65,000 tweets from around 50 VC's.
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by nloui 7y ago
Haha I'm sure it's somewhere in the middle. Never said it was the smartest algorithm. If you hover over the VC's name, it'll show the actual tweet that was sampled.
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by nloui 7y ago
Parrot.vc is a bot trained on tens of thousands of VC tweets that uses predictive text to generate amazing, new startup advice. Share your favorites! Gavin Belson - hit me up, this is the perfect acquisition for Hooli. PS - you can follow P
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Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC(parrot.vc)
263 points by nloui 7y ago|132 comments
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by nloui 7y ago
We're not quite real-time but this is in our wheelhouse https://www.civicfeed.com/
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by nloui 7y ago
Hi HN, Explore News is a side project I built that helps you visualizes how people and organizations are connected through a graph. As part of the work we do at CivicFeed, we've built a pipeline of news/social/government data
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Show HN: Explore news through entity graphs(civicfeed.com)
1 points by nloui 7y ago|1 comments
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by nloui 7y ago
Yup, totally. Was just curious if someone had made this process just a little bit easier.
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Ask HN: Roll-Up Notifications as a Service?
1 points by nloui 7y ago|2 comments
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by nloui 8y ago
If you're looking for more news sources, happy to hook you up with some extra API credit ( https://developers.civicfeed.com/ )
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by nloui 8y ago
This is great. Setting up proper staging environments has been on our procrastination list for a long time and as a small team, we haven't invested engineering hours for a real setup yet. If this simplifies the process so much that we
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by nloui 9y ago
Thanks for the comment! Because of the vast amount of data, we saw an opportunity to use natural language processing to better parse and understand the millions of documents that existed. This allows for faster discovery of information, mo
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by nloui 9y ago
Hey guys! We were super frustrated not being able to understand the laws, organizations, and people that affected us. With over 8,500 bills/resolutions in front of Congress and only 7% that pass on average - there was a lot to unpack
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Show HN: AI to quickly learn about new legislation(civicfeed.com)
6 points by nloui 9y ago|5 comments
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by nloui 13y ago
cool! have you (or have you considered) open sourcing this?

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