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Re: Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot

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Post by seanlevan »

jklinger410 wrote: post #257

Impressive parents. Clickbait though.

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 science and I must admit that I am entirely self-taught. This is because I came from a family of with a primarily literature-oriented and cultural background. I enjoy being raised in artistry.

Here is a Wiki page on my father: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Le_Van

My mother is an educator and tutor. http://www.myriamlevan.com/

My sisters are also musicians, who are studying at Princeton university.

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Post by joshrotenberg »

throwaway12357 wrote: post #223

Maybe this doesn't impress the typical HN overachiever. But I can't help to be both flabbergasted and crushed by the fact this was done by someone so young, less than half my age. Even more after looking at the LinkedIn page. Congratulations on your work. Any chance you can make this available in pdf or html? (not everyone has MS word) http://acuman.us/full.docx BTW, small typo, should be "Naive Bayes" instead of "Na…

I'm a typical HN underachiever, so totally, very impressive. Good to see that, in addition to all the smarty-pants stuff, he likes to run and skate. Staying well rounded and having the chance to also "be a kid" is important.

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Post by seanlevan »

askyui1 wrote: post #185
seanlevan wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! To be perfectly honest, as helpful as it is to read literature in a particular field: for me, it is and was definitely hands-on. I probably learned 99% of what I know in development based on the experience of just being able to live with code.

That's great! I am glad to hear that. Now that I think about it, I think I'm like that too. I do most of my learning by actually trying to build/do something rather than reading a book on the topic. But then I have to admit that it sometimes leads me to doing stuff that's not best-practices.

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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Post by tete »

FreeHAL[1], another (multi language) chat bot and distributed computing project (reading from Wikipedia, IIRC) was also done by a 13-year old.

But in general. A 14-year old isn't that unlikely to be able to program a chatbot, right?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeHAL

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Post by adam12 »

ghrifter wrote: post #217
joaorico wrote: post #104

This guy rocks. Sean Le Van: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vyACnFsNm4 Bio "Sean Le Van is 13. He has given many professional concerts since the age of five years old, along with members of his family, The Le Van Family Musicians. He started as a singer in various styles and soon developed a passion for jazz improvisation and composition on the piano. He now embraces several musical genres, including jazz and class…

>> In his free time, he enjoys running and skateboarding, playing with his cocker, ... Ermmmmm wouldn't they want to expand that into cocker spaniel...lol.

Don't underestimate this kid. He probably has a great sense of humor, too.

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

tete wrote: post #287

I think there is a bug. Every answer starting with a word that starts with the characters N and O is considered a "no".

Turns out most words in many languages that begin with 'N' mean something negatory. A few exceptions, like 'nice'.

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Post by seanlevan »

PKiss wrote: post #234

Question: Where is your software? Acuman: I don't have a good sense of navigation, so I don't know exactly where is my software, but it seems to be The Wolfram Store offers an assortment of products related to Wolfram Research, Mathematica®, and Wolfram Alpha®..

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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Post by andrewtbham »

seanlevan wrote: post #172
ColinWright wrote: post #165

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Right, that's much more interesting, especially making your own markup. Did you read extensively and decide that AIML and friends were not really suitable and hence you had to make your own, or did you make your own because you wanted to get a feel for the problem domain before trying to take advantage of the work others have done? ... doubt that we are anywhere near a flawless piece of artificial intelligence softwa…

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 currently working on fixing those bugs. Here is the URL: http://acuman.us/readmore.php I decided that AIML was not useful to me because it was too rigid in syntax and was too static. This is particularly in the manner in which most AIML interpreter…

what do you think about chat script and rive script?
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