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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 danieloaks »

seanlevan wrote: post #6
danbmil99 wrote: post #4

Good to see young programmers exercising their chops. I am having trouble getting it to work in FireFox on Ubuntu. Chrome seems OK. Keep it going!

Thank you for the encouragement, and for checking it out. It is a known bug that it has trouble working in Firefox, and I am currently working on making it cross-compatible.

Hey, I've done a little writeup on why it doesn't work properly under Firefox (and some other little issues I ran into), and the fixes so that it should work all fine.

Got it here, if you'd like to have a look: http://pastebin.com/eZR2TSrC

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

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Post by neuronic »

CheckHook wrote: post #59
etaty wrote: post #54

Good Job! But you should remove "I'm a 14 year-old dev", because I am sure you want to be judged on the "bot" not yourself. Your gender or your age should not have impact on what you do!

To build this at the authors age is very impressive. I find it interesting to see how the youths of today embrace programming. Knowing the authors age adds value to the post IMO.

Agreed. OP creating this cool chat bot is very impressive. Discussing it's usefulness or sophistication is probably superfluous atm. OP is 14 and built something.

Personally, my stomach twists when I read the post because I only ever got into programming at 25 and it's deeply troubling to see I missed the last 10 years.

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

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Post by vixen99 »

primitivesuave wrote: post #8

Whenever I find one of these AI chat programs, I like to start by typing in "this sentence is false", and yours gave me the most unique response (after quite some time calculating): "It seems to be, and it's actually a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language." On a side note - I work in tech education, and I have to say that the software projects that motivated people of your age are creating i…

Pedantic if you like but as with 'pregnant', you can't qualify 'unique'. You either are or you're not.

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

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Post by coldtea »

vixen99 wrote: post #74
primitivesuave wrote: post #8

Whenever I find one of these AI chat programs, I like to start by typing in "this sentence is false", and yours gave me the most unique response (after quite some time calculating): "It seems to be, and it's actually a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language." On a side note - I work in tech education, and I have to say that the software projects that motivated people of your age are creating i…

Pedantic if you like but as with 'pregnant', you can't qualify 'unique'. You either are or you're not.

Pedantic, but unlike pregant you can qualify unique.

Unlike pregnant which is a binary (are/are not), unique means the quality of differing from other things, and this is a continium.

Even the dictionary, in one of the terms for unique, gives a meaning that's not "unique" in a binary way at all:

"not typical; unusual".

If it wasn't a continuum we wouldn't have expressions like "totally unique" or the "most unique" used above (like we don't have for pregnancy). And they are not mere errors (like using your instead of you're etc.), they are used to express this notion, that something can be "different" than all other things in different deegres.

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

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Post by learnstats2 »

vixen99 wrote: post #74
primitivesuave wrote: post #8

Whenever I find one of these AI chat programs, I like to start by typing in "this sentence is false", and yours gave me the most unique response (after quite some time calculating): "It seems to be, and it's actually a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language." On a side note - I work in tech education, and I have to say that the software projects that motivated people of your age are creating i…

Pedantic if you like but as with 'pregnant', you can't qualify 'unique'. You either are or you're not.

Nope on both counts. It's a common idiom to say that someone is 'very pregnant'.

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

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Post by seanlevan »

danieloaks wrote: post #71
seanlevan wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for the encouragement, and for checking it out. It is a known bug that it has trouble working in Firefox, and I am currently working on making it cross-compatible.

Hey, I've done a little writeup on why it doesn't work properly under Firefox (and some other little issues I ran into), and the fixes so that it should work all fine. Got it here, if you'd like to have a look: http://pastebin.com/eZR2TSrC

Thank you for the code you offered, and I will implement it right away. There are so many different things to debug, I kept post-posting this one. I like how you binded the events instead of calling them inline. It's also a much better coding practice.
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