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mritchie712 | on: Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders
here's how this likely went down:

1. they found the dataset and thought "i bet there are weird order combos i could write a blog post about"

2. they did all the analysis and found nothing all that interesting

3. posted it anyway

andy99 | parent | next
They did it interactively with Claude, it’s possible that it played up the significance and humor of the findings in a way that the interaction left the user feeling like they were really on to something.
apathydinosaur | root | parent
That's the smoking gun.
spullara | root | parent
Funnier than the article.
stephantul | parent | next
The file drawer effect, except this one maybe should have stayed filed.
duzer65657 | parent
scanned through pretty much the entire post. Still waiting for the funny part.