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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 » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 10:49 AM UTC

zk00006 wrote: post #100

seanlevan wrote: post #93

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Thank you for visiting and testing out ACUMAN. That is one of the purposes of ACUMAN, to gather psychometric data to build a profile on an individual. http://acuman.us/readmore.php

Can you tell more about you? I cannot imagine how 14-year-old can build stuff like this.

Thank you! I've began developing web applications at the age 9, and would always try to build startups that would mimic famous ones and try to compete with them. What has driven me this far is mere passion.

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

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Post by Tloewald » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 10:56 AM UTC

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #110

coldtea wrote: post #77

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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" us…

> Pedantic, but unlike pregant you can qualify unique. Pedantic, but you can't. Unique is not a gradable adjective. This is not just my opinion : http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/05/an-extremely-most... http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/... https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/adjectives-gradable-non.... > we wouldn't have expressions like "totally unique" or the "most unique" I wouldn…

Pedantic but the misuse of "unique" is semantics not grammar.

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

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Post by SideburnsOfDoom » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 11:01 AM UTC

Tloewald wrote: post #112

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #110

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> Pedantic, but unlike pregant you can qualify unique. Pedantic, but you can't. Unique is not a gradable adjective. This is not just my opinion : http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/05/an-extremely-most... http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/... https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/adjectives-gradable-non.... > we wouldn't have expressions like "totally unique" or the "most unique" I wouldn…

Pedantic but the misuse of "unique" is semantics not grammar.

Thank you for your pedantic addition ;)

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

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Post by avinassh » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 11:01 AM UTC

This is really nice and well done

Can you anyone tell me how it works? If I want to start writing such bots, where should I start?

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

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Post by ia » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 11:03 AM UTC

danieloaks wrote: post #71

seanlevan wrote: post #6

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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

this is what i love about the internet. you're a great person. i also thank you on sean's behalf :)

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

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Post by seanlevan » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 11:11 AM UTC

avinassh wrote: post #114

This is really nice and well done Can you anyone tell me how it works? If I want to start writing such bots, where should I start?

Try investigating current technologies and then deviate from there, like the markup language AIML.

You can even make a dead simple bot which matches if a substring is contained in a string with exclusively conditional statements!

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

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Post by seanlevan » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 11:13 AM UTC

hmate9 wrote: post #79

I asked where Batman lived and it gave it to me. Excellent work! I've also peeked at your LinkedIn and I was blown away. Sean, keep doing what you're doing!

Thank you. I appreciate your kind words.

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

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Post by JonnieCache » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 11:14 AM UTC

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #110

coldtea wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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" us…

> Pedantic, but unlike pregant you can qualify unique. Pedantic, but you can't. Unique is not a gradable adjective. This is not just my opinion : http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/05/an-extremely-most... http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-reference/... https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/adjectives-gradable-non.... > we wouldn't have expressions like "totally unique" or the "most unique" I wouldn…

I thought we'd all learned to stop worrying and love descriptivism?

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

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Post by dvh » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 11:15 AM UTC

seanlevan wrote: post #92

dvh wrote: post #37

Where is the source?

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

Trade fairs?

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

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Post by askyui1 » Thu, Apr 16, 2015, 11:16 AM UTC

OP, how do you manage to do so many things at once? What is your productivity secret? Also, how do you prefer to learn? By hands on, or by reading books?