Internet Research Lab
irl.computer internet research lab home blog twitter we matched 120 people based on their interests using sentence transformers how it all started - and why About two weeks ago, we had this wild idea of connecting internet strangers who have similar interests to explore a space and co-create together. To our surprise, we got over 430 responses, and got 120+ people signed up to join our first run of the experiment. link to tweet The inspiration for this idea spun out of the pain point/hypothesis we had: independent research is hard, and much easier to break ground on new projects, explorations, with a group to be accountable for, and that people are looking to connect with others with similar interests. Keshav and I also met in a similar way - it started off from a serendipitous call sparked from a twitter DM, where we talked about mutual interests and started talking about project ideas on a call. We wondered - how can we enable more internet friends to meet online and build
Internet Research Lab irl.computer internet research lab home blog twitter we matched 120 people based on their interests using sentence transformers how it all started - and why About two weeks ago, we had this wild idea of connecting internet strangers who have similar interests to explore a space and co-create together. To our surprise, we got over 430 responses, and got 120+ people signed up to join our first run of the experiment. link to tweet The inspiration for this idea spun out of the pain point/hypothesis we had: independent research is hard, and much easier to break ground on new p
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