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I used my pinned tweet (https://twitter.com/hyperpape/status/1050402656181735426 https://twitter.com/hyperpape/status/1050402656181735426) "Learning Perl6 is l

I used my pinned tweet (https://twitter.com/hyperpape/status/1050402656181735426 https://twitter.com/hyperpape/status/1050402656181735426) "Learning Perl6 is like being stuck in a small dark room with a bat that's flapping around wildly, and talking to the bat and slowly coming to understand what it is like to be a bat." and the results are quite good: https://same.energy/?q=Learning+Perl6+is+like+being+stuck+in+a+small+dark+room+with+a+bat+that%27s+flapping+around+wildly%2C+and+talking+to+the+bat+and+slowly+coming+to+understand+what+it+is+like+to+be+a+bat https://same.energy/?q=Learning+Perl6+is+like+being+stuck+in.... I wouldn't say they 100% have the same energy in every case, but I enjoyed reading them.

hyperpape 6y ago
Example of where it falls down. I took the top tweet on @danluu (https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1304093800474636288 https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1304093800474636288) "I find it interesting how often the top Google results for basic questions are wrong. For example, I googled "tire grip physics" (in an incognito window) to get an explanation of why wider tires give you better grip and the top 6 explanations are wrong or at least misleading." The results are pretty weak. They're car stuff and/or "vaguely analytical" feeling. https://same.energy/?q=I+find+it+interesting+how+often+the+top+Google+results+for+basic+questions+are+wrong.%0A%0AFor+example%2C+I+googled+%22tire+grip+physics%22+(in+an+incognito+window)+to+get+an+explanation+of+why+wider+tires+give+you+better+grip+and+the+top+6+explanations+are+wrong+or+at+least+misleading.%0A https://same.energy/?q=I+find+it+interesting+how+often+the+t...
mellosouls 6y ago
I would say the results in your example are terrific; they seem completely of the same style (at least the first few, I stopped reading after that).
- dmurray 6y ago
  They're also generally funny and original! I'd take these ahead of a curated list of "20 funniest tweets about programming languages" [0] or, say, Reddit r/ProgrammerHumor all time top posts, so that's something that's difficult to achieve programmatically. [0] OK, I didn't look for a source of these, because Google has the same inadequacies with recommending funny content. If anyone would like to recommend one, I'll read it to give a fair comparison.
searchableguy 6y ago
Unless I am doing something wrong, searching for similar tweets to realdonaldtrump only results in his tweets. https://same.energy/?q=The+Democrats+never+even+mentioned+the+words+LAW+%26+ORDER+at+their+National+Convention.+That%27s+where+they+are+coming+from.+If+I+don%27t+win%2C+America%27s+Suburbs+will+be+OVERRUN+with+Low+Income+Projects%2C+Anarchists%2C+Agitators%2C+Looters+and%2C+of+course%2C+%22Friendly+Protesters%22 https://same.energy/?q=The+Democrats+never+even+mentioned+th.... This could be used to de-anonymize people on twitter. Edit: So I did a test for an old twitter account I don't have access to anymore. I was able to find it using my comments with few tries.
- dmurray 6y ago
  I wonder if it sorts by popularity ahead of relevance (maybe after meeting some minimum threshold for relevance). In another post I've commented about the surprising high quality of the results. @realdonaldtrump has huge reach on Twitter, as well as a distinctive style, so maybe there is no one who posts in a similar style (TBH I'd expect most to be parody accounts) who has achieved sufficient popularity to compete.
  - boogies 6y ago
    > maybe there is no one who posts in a similar style (TBH I'd expect most to be parody accounts) who has achieved sufficient popularity to compete A couple pages down there are non-@realdonaldtrump tweets scattered here and there, always in pairs as far as I can see (https://twitter.com/majorbear70/status/1286690669826842626 https://twitter.com/majorbear70/status/1286690669826842626 & https://twitter.com/DavidWaddell5/status/1127214256636813313 https://twitter.com/DavidWaddell5/status/1127214256636813313 https://same.energy/?q=I+heard+Bill+Clinton+might+be+joining+Creepy%2FSleepy+Joe+Biden+on+the+Campaign+Trail.+It+will+be+called+our+%22Fondling+Father%27s.%22 https://same.energy/?q=I+heard+Bill+Clinton+might+be+joining..., and https://twitter.com/RealWayneRoot/status/1161435864506884096 https://twitter.com/RealWayneRoot/status/1161435864506884096 & https://twitter.com/Mcphie00/status/1163080988085358592 https://twitter.com/Mcphie00/status/1163080988085358592, Control-F to search), except scattered individual tweets from @RealDonaldTrFan
- 6y ago
glial 6y ago
Style aside, these results are way way better quality than the typical curated Twitter feed. > BlueSpaceCanaryTwitter "malloc" comes from the Latin "mal", meaning "bad" or "evil", and the abbreviation "LOC", meaning "lines of code.”

hyperpape 6y ago

Example of where it falls down. I took the top tweet on @danluu (https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1304093800474636288 https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1304093800474636288) "I find it interesting how often the top Google results for basic questions are wrong. For example, I googled "tire grip physics" (in an incognito window) to get an explanation of why wider tires give you better grip and the top 6 explanations are wrong or at least misleading." The results are pretty weak. They're car stuff and/or "vaguely analytical" feeling. https://same.energy/?q=I+find+it+interesting+how+often+the+top+Google+results+for+basic+questions+are+wrong.%0A%0AFor+example%2C+I+googled+%22tire+grip+physics%22+(in+an+incognito+window)+to+get+an+explanation+of+why+wider+tires+give+you+better+grip+and+the+top+6+explanations+are+wrong+or+at+least+misleading.%0A https://same.energy/?q=I+find+it+interesting+how+often+the+t...

mellosouls 6y ago

I would say the results in your example are terrific; they seem completely of the same style (at least the first few, I stopped reading after that).

dmurray 6y ago
They're also generally funny and original! I'd take these ahead of a curated list of "20 funniest tweets about programming languages" [0] or, say, Reddit r/ProgrammerHumor all time top posts, so that's something that's difficult to achieve programmatically. [0] OK, I didn't look for a source of these, because Google has the same inadequacies with recommending funny content. If anyone would like to recommend one, I'll read it to give a fair comparison.

searchableguy 6y ago

Unless I am doing something wrong, searching for similar tweets to realdonaldtrump only results in his tweets. https://same.energy/?q=The+Democrats+never+even+mentioned+the+words+LAW+%26+ORDER+at+their+National+Convention.+That%27s+where+they+are+coming+from.+If+I+don%27t+win%2C+America%27s+Suburbs+will+be+OVERRUN+with+Low+Income+Projects%2C+Anarchists%2C+Agitators%2C+Looters+and%2C+of+course%2C+%22Friendly+Protesters%22 https://same.energy/?q=The+Democrats+never+even+mentioned+th.... This could be used to de-anonymize people on twitter. Edit: So I did a test for an old twitter account I don't have access to anymore. I was able to find it using my comments with few tries.

dmurray 6y ago
I wonder if it sorts by popularity ahead of relevance (maybe after meeting some minimum threshold for relevance). In another post I've commented about the surprising high quality of the results. @realdonaldtrump has huge reach on Twitter, as well as a distinctive style, so maybe there is no one who posts in a similar style (TBH I'd expect most to be parody accounts) who has achieved sufficient popularity to compete.
- boogies 6y ago
  > maybe there is no one who posts in a similar style (TBH I'd expect most to be parody accounts) who has achieved sufficient popularity to compete A couple pages down there are non-@realdonaldtrump tweets scattered here and there, always in pairs as far as I can see (https://twitter.com/majorbear70/status/1286690669826842626 https://twitter.com/majorbear70/status/1286690669826842626 & https://twitter.com/DavidWaddell5/status/1127214256636813313 https://twitter.com/DavidWaddell5/status/1127214256636813313 https://same.energy/?q=I+heard+Bill+Clinton+might+be+joining+Creepy%2FSleepy+Joe+Biden+on+the+Campaign+Trail.+It+will+be+called+our+%22Fondling+Father%27s.%22 https://same.energy/?q=I+heard+Bill+Clinton+might+be+joining..., and https://twitter.com/RealWayneRoot/status/1161435864506884096 https://twitter.com/RealWayneRoot/status/1161435864506884096 & https://twitter.com/Mcphie00/status/1163080988085358592 https://twitter.com/Mcphie00/status/1163080988085358592, Control-F to search), except scattered individual tweets from @RealDonaldTrFan
6y ago

glial 6y ago

Style aside, these results are way way better quality than the typical curated Twitter feed. > BlueSpaceCanaryTwitter "malloc" comes from the Latin "mal", meaning "bad" or "evil", and the abbreviation "LOC", meaning "lines of code.”