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seanlevan

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About seanlevan

email: sean@whiskeyandwhiskey.com

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/sean-le-van/9b/199/433

Recent public activity

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    Comment #9392125

    I have tried replicating what you a talking about, but I haven't been able. When I ask him for a joke, he is quite funny. Do you have a screenshot to reproduce this?

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    Comment #9392123

    What is wrong with his jokes? I have tried asking him a few and his responses are quite funny.

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    Comment #9390654

    I have indeed heard about FreeHAL. It won "Most Popular" (in the past) in the same contest in which my bot most recently was awarded "Best New Bot". FreeHAL is now discontinued, la…

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    Comment #9390542

    For some reason, I'm not able to replicate the bug you caught. On my side, ACUMAN answers that question correctly.

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    Comment #9390414

    I have encountered the same issue, but then again! Just continue building something, this time trying to fix the poor syntax practices that you have been caught with.

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    Comment #9390371

    I am very indebted to my parents due to the way that I was raised and the freedom which being home-schooled permitted, but my parents are not familiar with the field of computer sc…

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    Comment #9390335

    Thank you! That's a nice compliment. For me, it was 5% reading, 95% hands-on experience, though it differs from person-to-person.

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    Comment #9390325

    Those bugs are fixed and the algorithm regarding identifying countries and states in discussion has been improved.

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    Comment #9390316

    As I've replied to other people: No AIML. My bot uses its own markup language custom-made to its needs that I call ACUMANSCRIPT. What makes it special is the backend, which is much…

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    Comment #9390301

    The model behind my project is not designed after human interaction, but rather a combination of what is the most efficient for me to maintain and best mimics human behavior. http:…

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    Comment #9390293

    Hi, I wasn't able to reproduce that glitch.

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    Comment #9390288

    I do pursue programming, and contribute to open-source projects such as DuckDuckGo. I also have a job as part of a web development and design team called http://www.whiskeyandwhisk…

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    Comment #9389721

    That's actually a glitch that I am fixing... desperately! Some of the backend APIs are down due to excessive requests, so I am trying to get them back up.

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    Comment #9389360

    My chatterbot received the definition by WolframAlpha, per as what it's programmed. It found the entity was "sentence" and then looked for a definition. It does not simply grab wha…

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    Comment #9389333

    There is a synonym directory programmed, as well as Named-enetity recognition.

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    Comment #9389307

    I don't get what's new about any of this. I disclosed in this thread in other answers already the APIs I use, I have yet to know any "intelligent" piece of artificial intelligence …

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    Comment #9387821

    Yes. If you were in a noticeably bad mood, the bot might make a comment on it. It also picks on your hobbies and goals, and asks more questions about them or reminds you to follow …

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    Comment #9387800

    That's a funny exchange! The particularly odd thing is the fact that he missed the Named-entity recognition in some of those answers- including by not identifying that you were ref…

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    Comment #9387699

    Thank you for expressing interest. You are correct, there are some issues that may be encountered with Firefox, particularly in a non-OS X or non-Windows environment. I am currentl…

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    Comment #9387679

    My favorite moments of my chatterbot is when he exhibits a sense of humor. :)

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    Comment #9387671

    Thank you. I believe that it must be a coincidence, or a way in which it deems an appropriate manner to react to your mood/state. Do you have any specific case examples that are pa…

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    Comment #9387628

    Unfortunately, ACUMAN is closed-source due to the fact that it is actively being entered in competitive contests and trade fairs.

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    Comment #9387575

    I believe my LinkedIn should be sufficient evidence...? I don't understand your demand, though I suppose it is a compliment?

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    Comment #9387536

    That's the interesting thing- I am not, unlike most chatterbot projects, using existing technologies and jumbling it together- a quick glance at the "read more" page on the technol…

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    Comment #9387465

    No - if you look up Blekko (which is a regular web search engine which had a free API), it just shut down (which is actually a bad thing for me). I was using it for researching and…