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by visakanv 9y ago
Excuse me sir, but it appears that you're trying to have fun. This is Hacker News. Fun is strictly prohibited.
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by visakanv 9y ago
It suffers from the same malaise that all online publications suffer from – articles and headlines are increasingly optimized to get people arguing about it on Facebook (and Hacker News, and anywhere else).
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by visakanv 9y ago
> No longer can a scientist say "take this vaccine so you won't die," now they must also have a witty sign that infotains people. Implying that this wasn't the case before? From what I remember, the guy who said &quo
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by visakanv 9y ago
> I think there are thousands of better examples but they might not be at the scale of Dropbox. Of those thousands of examples, which are the closest to Dropbox's scale?
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by visakanv 9y ago
Perhaps clichés are clichés because there's something true about them?
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by visakanv 9y ago
This is beautiful.
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by visakanv 9y ago
Fascinating!
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by visakanv 9y ago
I thought it was pretty fun!
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by visakanv 9y ago
> This sort of text generation is like a magician's trick where he appears to saw the woman in half and put her together again. That's a really good analogy!
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by visakanv 9y ago
I like it! Very nice.
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by visakanv 9y ago
That actually makes a lot of sense, great point.
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by visakanv 9y ago
Hahaha! Yeah, maybe that's part of what makes the output distinctive. Do you have any good recommendations for a person looking to improve their shoddy writing?
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by visakanv 9y ago
Are you talking about the submission title? =/
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by visakanv 9y ago
> The giddy excitement of being on the verge of unlocking the power of language slowly turned into confusion and then decayed into disappointment as i slowly realized that the task was maybe a bucket of orders of magnitude harder than i
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by visakanv 9y ago
You should totally do it! Would love to see what happens.
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by visakanv 9y ago
Haha yeah it's a little disappointing (yet interesting) how it comes close but misses the mark. I wonder how far away we are to having machine-generated output that's tough to distinguish from the input you put into it.
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by visakanv 9y ago
Interesting. Why do you think that is? (More readable, that is)
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Machine-generated husband chatter(medium.com)
70 points by visakanv 9y ago|40 comments
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Ask HN: Does anybody have questions about content marketing?
2 points by visakanv 9y ago|0 comments
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by visakanv 10y ago
I am, actually! :-) I also happen to be generally curious about everything.
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by visakanv 10y ago
A separate discussion that I'd like to have is – why do people drink so much, to the point of drunkenness? Why is this so common? Has this always been the case? Will this change?
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by visakanv 10y ago
All of these things are also huge for people who are disabled (deaf, mute, etc) and for people who are in foreign countries, and all sorts of other situations that most of us might not typically think of.
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by visakanv 10y ago
I really enjoyed Westworld, you might too. (It's about robots, not space, but still does a good job overall.)
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by visakanv 10y ago
I'm working on a writing project to write 1,000,000 words, just for the sake of it. Currently 66.2% of the way through.
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by visakanv 10y ago
It's on Brian Chesky's radar, I'm sure: https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/813800346116128769
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by visakanv 10y ago
Isn't that technically the moon's "year"?
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by visakanv 10y ago
> Where were the protests when Obama wiretapped the world? There were protests in over 80 cities in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_global_surveillan...
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by visakanv 10y ago
> I've always felt it's a bit of an odd value proposition — "pay me more, and I'll fix my flawed, buggy software". Hmm. I think it makes sense if you begin with the assumption that all software is flawed and bugg
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by visakanv 10y ago
> The Pentagon is essentially a round building I burst out laughing at this comment, because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentialism Aristotle: the essential qualities of an object are those properties that make
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by visakanv 10y ago
I think you might've meant to say "how appropriate", or "how fitting". A situation is ironic is when the outcome is contrary to the expectation. (Eg: getting run over by an ambulance)

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