Project Lens is an alpha-level demo. The data sets are incomplete and imbalanced and algorithm parameters are being tuned. Results should thus be considered directional. Want to provide feedback, request features, or collaborate?

Noam Blum

Noam Blum

@neontaster

neontaster.substack.com

CTO @tabletmag || Korean BBQ enthusiast || Also post things @ youtube.com/c/neontaster and stream @ twitch.tv/neontaster || opinions always my own

115817 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#27 0.003995 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#58 0.001700 Moderate Conservatism
#67 0.001243 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#72 0.001207 Populist Libertarians
#96 0.001890 Claremont Institute
#154 0.000005 Schumacher Circle
#172 0.000862 Heterodox Academy
#204 0.000005 Fair Vote
#221 0.000573 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#284 0.000267 Harper's Open Letter
#326 0.000338 Persuasion Community
#338 0.000005 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#354 0.000005 Extinction Rebellion
#391 0.000005 Existential Risks
#485 0.000005 Ecosocialism
#505 0.000005 Sierra Clib
#544 0.000215 Rationality
#723 0.000005 350.org
#913 0.000005 Environmental Defense Fund
#1235 0.000126 Progress Studies
#1739 0.000004 Environmental Journalists
#1898 0.000004 Climate Solutions
#1910 0.000055 The Long Now Foundation
#2033 0.000058 Social Epistemology
#2052 0.000032 Effective Altruism
#2187 0.000004 Bismark Analysis
#2506 0.000033 Works in Progress
#2734 0.000004 RadicalxChange
#3848 0.000004 Anarachists
#3938 0.000004 Black Lives Matter
#4659 0.000004 EFF
#6249 0.000004 Degrowth
#7414 0.000008 Ecomodernists

Journalism

#34 0.002834 The Dispatch
#60 0.001462 The New York Post
#152 0.000608 Bloomberg Opinion
#250 0.000578 The Intercept
#297 0.000551 Wall Street Journal
#601 0.000042 Newsmax
#608 0.000005 The Information
#694 0.000152 Palladium Magazine
#720 0.000175 The Atlantic
#820 0.000182 Foreign Policy
#859 0.000215 The New York Times
#918 0.000004 OANN
#1115 0.000081 Washington Post
#1135 0.000005 Stat News
#1485 0.000076 Ars Technica
#1560 0.000005 The Verge
#2064 0.000005 The Economist
#2242 0.000007 Reuters
#2624 0.000005 CNBC
#2823 0.000005 The Daily Beast
#2896 0.000043 Recode
#3158 0.000005 Techcrunch
#3844 0.000005 Wired
#3953 0.000005 Financial Times
#4578 0.000005 BuzzFeed
#5051 0.000005 The Los Angeles Times
#5970 0.000005 VICE
#7129 0.000012 New Yorker

Think Tanks

#28 0.002216 American Enterprise Institute
#28 0.002216 National Bureau of Economic Research
#33 0.001919 Hoover Institution
#144 0.000576 Hudson Institute
#352 0.000412 Heritage Foundation
#515 0.000179 Cato Institute
#654 0.000005 RAND Corporation
#711 0.000005 Belfer Center
#777 0.000212 Mercatus Center
#820 0.000182 Niskanen Center
#878 0.000161 Brookings
#918 0.000005 Urban Institute
#1129 0.000109 Council on Foreign Relations
#1445 0.000004 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2096 0.000050 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#2145 0.000064 Earth Institute
#2617 0.000020 Eurasia Group
#2641 0.000005 Atlantic Council
#2759 0.000009 Adam Smith Institute
#3251 0.000004 Berggruen Institute
#4258 0.000021 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9679 0.000005 Center for American Progress

Venture Capital

#196 0.000005 Standard Crypto
#293 0.000005 Founders Fund
#476 0.000311 A16Z
#743 0.000005 Accel
#1138 0.000005 Sequioa
#1172 0.000124 Benchmark Capital
#1251 0.000104 Khosla Ventures
#1708 0.000005 Y Combinator
#1732 0.000004 Bessemer
#2031 0.000004 Index Ventures
#2104 0.000042 Village Global
#2238 0.000004 My Climate Journey
#2431 0.000004 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3277 0.000004 Homebrew
#4260 0.000004 Initialized Capital

system

#825 0.000278 Think Tanks
#4038 0.000112 Baseline
#8337 0.000059 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#201 0.000005 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#368 0.000005 Crypto Political Economy
#399 0.000005 Polkadot
#1010 0.000083 Crypto Investing
#1289 0.000004 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1640 0.000072 Crypto VC
#1950 0.000042 Crypto Journalists
#1981 0.000019 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2315 0.000004 Crypto Angels
#2494 0.000004 Public Goods Funding
#2525 0.000004 Cosmos
#3317 0.000019 Crypto Infrastructure
#3435 0.000005 Ethereum
#3526 0.000005 Decentralized Web
#6589 0.000004 IDEO Founder Collective

Science

#781 0.000005 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1091 0.000005 Philosophy Twitter
#1757 0.000057 Biotech
#2797 0.000005 Epidimiology Twitter
#4167 0.000004 Epidemiology Journalism
#7724 0.000005 EconTwitter
#8478 0.000005 ClimateTwitter

Informal Community

#7991 0.000014 Founders

Software Engineering

#336 0.000005 Rust
#1078 0.000004 Zig

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