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caelum19  ·  3594 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 21, 2015

Uhh... just an orange juice please.

After several failed attempts at making a Twitter AIsh Bot in the past, I have an idea now which seems a lot easier.

Previously I was going to have the emotion and weight of that emotion in every context of every word defined by hand over time, then I realized that I don't have infinite effort shrugs.

Now I have an idea to automate this, I define a few adjectives(Love, hate etc.) and search twitter for "I love x", once I find something which the majority of people love and very few hate(Breaking Bad?), I will search for "I <adjective> Breaking Bad" and now I have a bunch of words/word groups similar to "love"]

If I automate this with a Twitter4J, I can buid a database of words, word groups and profiles of various things. Which will open up doors for more fun.

Just an idea though, I wouldn't be very surprised at all if I run into a million huge problems. Either way I'll have fun and probably learn something.

Anyone here have any experience with this sort of thing?





ironpotato  ·  3594 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've definitely looked into it, and thought of doing similar things. What I've found is that matching strings like that and finding a good sample size can be difficult. Not to mention 400 other little things that I didn't run into that you will...

I've never worked with the twitter API as well, so that may have it's own hurdles.

I one day hope to make a digital assistant of my own. I think that would just be awesome and it's been a goal for me since I was young. Best luck to you on your bot endeavors!

caelum19  ·  3594 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I one day hope to make a digital assistant of my own. I think that would just be awesome and it's been a goal for me since I was young. Best luck to you on your bot endeavors!

Oh yeah, I would have given up ages ago if it weren't for the "This is awesome" factor, and I bet the idea of building an AI crossed the mind of everyone who has made an 'if' tree before

    What I've found is that matching strings like that and finding a good sample size can be difficult.

Slightly relevant xkcd

The isn't an official twitter API I know of, but Twitter4J is fairly well documented and really easy to use, I'd recommend it if you're not a javaphobe. It was quite confusing to register an app at dev.twitter.com but you only have to do that once.

    Not to mention 400 other little things that I didn't run into that you will...
It will be a blast! :D
ironpotato  ·  3594 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's always a relevant xkcd... always.

caelum19  ·  3594 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And a relavant xkcd for relavant xkcds! I love xkcd. Very rightfully the most popular webcomic according to alexa