Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy

@MarginaliaNu

Working full time on an open source internet search engine. Acting librarian of the weird corners of the web.

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Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy
@MarginaliaNu
Jun 16, 2023
Today is the day. I left the office for the last time an hour ago. Time sheets filed, corporate laptop handed in, goodbyes said. I'm now working full time on Marginalia Search.
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I’m working on Marginalia Search full time. I left the office for the last time today, and it’s the strangest feeling. I’ve quit jobs, taken time off work, been laid off, but this is different from...
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Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy
@MarginaliaNu
Mar 4
All you need to understand the state of LinkedIn and HN the last few months can be found in this openclaw template:
openclaw/extensions/open-prose/skills/prose/examples/34-content-pipeline.prose at 76bfd9b5e660a7e...
From github.com
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Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy
@MarginaliaNu
Feb 28
If programmer speed and efficiency was truly such a significant competitive factor, we wouldn't be packing them like sardines them in noisy and stuffy open floor plan offices.
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Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy
@MarginaliaNu
Feb 27
Did some local LLM-based labeling of the HN comment corpus, tasking the model to classify how likely it is that each comment is: * Using AI-like grammar (e.g. it's not X, it's Y) * Using AI-like markup (e.g. em-dashes) * Trying to shill something * Trying to influence public
Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy
@MarginaliaNu
Feb 25
Did some statistics, and it seems posts from newly registered accounts on HN are nearly 10x more likely to use EM-dashes, arrows, and similar typography than established accounts. marginalia.nu/weird-ai-crap/…
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