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Andrew Conner
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I want to make a map of all the wellness clusters.

There’s western science people. Then, we have the grounding/red light/nasal breathing people. But these are different from the traditional woo people (crystals, etc).

Peaters, keto, anti-BCAA. Who else?
June 13, 2024 at 9:40 PM
May 21, 2023 at 2:56 AM
Conclusion from playing with potential What's Hot algorithms: people say they want to see cool smaller communities, but sampling randomly from smaller network clusters ends up being random and not useful.i.e., the useful pockets you'd like eventually get reflected in the follows/likes/replies graph.
May 4, 2023 at 7:00 PM
"Awareness month"s exist to sell you things
May 1, 2023 at 5:16 PM
Arc'teryx seriously misunderstands my mom.
April 25, 2023 at 10:36 PM
Been thinking about timeline algorithm design. Some thoughts, would love feedback.

Algorithms are useful/needed bc the amount of content is too much even if you consider just your follows. ie, do you want every reply? every liked post?

Content from people you don't follow can be good as well!
April 25, 2023 at 3:36 PM
If anyone wants to play with the data set powering this, it's available here: https://huggingface.co/datasets/andrewconner/bluesky_profiles
Behold is the Bluesky World!

Got "The Bluesky Dataset" from @andrewconner.com and used Graphext (from @victoriano.bsky.social) to visualize all the connections. It looks beautiful! 😍

The best thing is that you can explore it too! 👇

https://public.graphext.com/fe28f76fe67518ab/index.html
April 23, 2023 at 10:12 PM
Reposted by Andrew Conner
Behold is the Bluesky World!

Got "The Bluesky Dataset" from @andrewconner.com and used Graphext (from @victoriano.bsky.social) to visualize all the connections. It looks beautiful! 😍

The best thing is that you can explore it too! 👇

https://public.graphext.com/fe28f76fe67518ab/index.html
April 23, 2023 at 9:34 PM
Reposted by Andrew Conner
There's already a critical mass of people here, so if you're interested in chatting with other people hacking around on the Bluesky API, go here:
YOU THERE! BLUESKY-USING PROGRAMMER! we need YOU!

if you're into front-end web development and would like to help out some community-driven projects aiming to fill gaps in bluesky's current UI, come hang out! https://discord.gg/ZwntSUDYnz
April 21, 2023 at 6:42 PM
Updated my Bsky profile/follower sqlite database.

Makes it pretty easy to see overall growth and what's happening in the network. Will post about follows cluster analysis later, but for now: how many unique people follow someone, per day?

(Database is available if you want a copy, see below)
April 20, 2023 at 9:43 PM
Reposted by Andrew Conner
Get hyped
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April 20, 2023 at 1:12 PM
Would anyone like a sqlite database of the Bsky accounts and follow graph for data exploration?

Includes account details (did, handle, followers, following), follows, and PageRank calculations for each account.

Since no DMs here, DM me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/connerdelights
April 19, 2023 at 3:58 PM
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I mostly throw normal pottery (vases, planters, bowls), but also do weird sculptural pieces.
April 18, 2023 at 5:20 PM
Bsky network analysis

Here's how many followers the entire Bluesky network has. Nearly every account gets 20-30 followers (follow spam), and then it drops off quickly.

If you have 100 followers, you're in the top 93%. The top 1% has 430 followers.
April 18, 2023 at 5:38 PM
(Continuing PageRank of Bsky people, click below for context)

Playing around with "who is the most underrated", I kind of like sorting by (followers rank - PageRank rank). e.g., you're the 100th most followed, and 50th highest PR.

This captures how far off your follower count is from PageRank.
April 17, 2023 at 8:37 PM
Ran PageRank on the bsky follower graph. Here are the top accounts.

(My crawl is a little incomplete, but this should be directionally accurate)
April 17, 2023 at 6:41 PM
Tax shower thought: do meditation teachers get to write off whatever room they meditate in as a business expense?
April 17, 2023 at 5:42 PM
Do you ever get the sense that they use a bit too much blue?
April 17, 2023 at 2:21 PM
This video is about a cool glass technique, but is actually a video showing participatory knowing vs propositional knowing. It's brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1KT8PS6Zs4
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April 17, 2023 at 1:55 PM
Playing with a concept of "trust score" on bsky.

Imagine a score existed that'd allow you to filter feeds / notifications by relevance (higher number, way more likely you care about that account).

What matters most to you: personalized trust (how much *your* account trusts), or global trust?
April 15, 2023 at 3:32 PM
A clay Klein bottle, work in progress.
April 14, 2023 at 7:26 PM
Hey everyone, go buy Michael’s course on the Alexander Technique. It’s quite good. https://expandingawareness.org/courses/
April 14, 2023 at 1:49 PM
Things you can just do:

You can make boba tea at home. Boba is on Amazon, cooks quite easily. Delicious.
April 13, 2023 at 9:13 PM
About 10 years ago, at the startup I worked at, we needed to be able to classify nsfw/porn text content for a content filter, and had to build our own model.

The engineer tasked with this took the job very seriously — he was an earnest, married guy who moved to the US from China.
laptop screen is full of porn & gore in the hotel lobby & telling everybody "im working"
April 13, 2023 at 8:57 PM
Is there a directory of podcast transcriptions? (using Whisper or whatever)

Not just the huge ones, but all moderately-popular ones.
April 12, 2023 at 10:46 PM