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afterz

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    Comment #1168375

    Very interesting article! I would like to know how much time was spent on developing the bot.

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    Comment #1143916

    But there is a single company in charge of the service... if that company disappears or the company servers shut off, your messages will disappear (just as it happens when twitter …

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    Comment #1141914

    By the way, I would recommend any programmer interested in physics "The Road to Reality" by Penrose. I think that's a very challenging book, that can be interesting for programmers…

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    Comment #1141911

    I found it light, and boring because of how light it was. I had studied Gödel's theorems, etc., so I really could not take the pace for explaining the logic stuff (most of the book…

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    I still don't believe you. So the numbers are made up? "15 minutes" -> "entire planet"? How much for 10 minutes? And for 1 minute? Is that obvious too? So you think it's very obvio…

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    Exercise worked for me too. It makes a GREAT difference on me, even an hour day of exercise counts. I don't know how to make my diet better.

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    " It's trivial to show that a Chinese Room that could converse for more than 15 minutes would have to contain more elementary particles than the entire planet." I don't believe it,…

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    Comment #1073950

    What is a good book for learning about this subject? Knuth's? Any other recommendations?

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    Comment #1026614

    Thanks everyone for your comments, they have been very useful!

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    Ask / Tell HN: dropped out, learning from books by myself... any advice?

    Sorry for the grammar, I'm not a native English speaker. I left university shortly before getting a bachelor degree in Computer Science. This happened some years ago; I did it beca…