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   Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 14-Nov-2025 13:24:04 JST Rob Ricci

   It sometimes surprises me to learn that there are people who don't know that one of the first really big datasets used to train and evaluate computer language and social models was (and still is) a bunch of internal emails from Enron.

   Yes, that Enron. Collected as part of the investigation into its collapse.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_Corpus

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     Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 14-Nov-2025 13:24:02 JST Kim Scheinberg

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     Wow, I did not know that

     And had you given me a five-answer multiple choice, I probably would have guessed wrong four times

     [This will make for a great trivia question next time I write a quiz: "The internal emails from which company...." Thank you.]

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     Jonathan Yu (jawnsy@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Nov-2025 13:28:28 JST Jonathan Yu

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     @ricci oh wow, that's cool

     Kim Scheinberg repeated this.
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     Rob Ricci (ricci@discuss.systems)'s status on Friday, 14-Nov-2025 13:28:28 JST Rob Ricci

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     • Jonathan Yu

     @jawnsy Where do you get a bunch of public-domain text with implied social connections? Court filings, it turns out.