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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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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?

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.

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

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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…

If you want to argue English usage with Shakespeare, that's your business.

"My matter hath no voice, to your own most pregnant and vouchsafed ear." -- Viola, "Twelfth Night"

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

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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.

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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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> 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?

If we are talking about descriptive linguistics "analyzing and describing how language is actually used" as opposed to formal rules ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description ), then we must also love how the way that I use the English language differs from the way that you use it. And how my well-documented variant works too, and why they differ.

I don't use "unique" that way. Do you want "unique" to be just a redundant synonym for "different" or not?

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

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

That simply means they have a very large baby bump. It does not mean that they are "more pregnant" than a lady with a smaller bump. Pregnancy is a binary state.

Being pregnant is a binary state. Pregnancy is a process.

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

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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!

I was far more impressed that this was made by a 14 year old than I would have been if it was made by a team of 20 people at Google

In that respect it's warranted, and this bot made that much more awesome because I can compare. At 14 I'd barely managed typing on a keyboard

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

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Amazing job building this. I'm twice your age and have been programming since I was 11 too and am just blown away. Just FYI, looks like you might have an infinite loop: 999+ TypeError: null is not an object (evaluating 'document.getElementById("finishloading").style')

Thank you for your kind words and for checking it out!

That bug, along with others, have been fixed. (Also thanks to user "danieloaks" who contributed some code here on Hacker News.)

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

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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…

"Is this sentence false?" gets the same answer.
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