Keeps asking me where I live.. wtf.
Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot
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#242Question: "Where have all the flowers gone?" Wolfram Answer: "Girls have picked them every one. (according to the 1960s folk song by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson) Acuman Answer: "I'm not really good with locations, so I don't know exactly where have all the flowers gone, but it seems to be Girls have picked them every one. (according to the 1960s folk song by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson)." Hmm...so closed source,…
Questions: "What is best in life?" Acuman: "What is best in life? a characteristic state or mode of living." Wolfram Alpha: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."
this settles it!
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#243This is great. Found a bug:
Fatal error: Call to a member function xpath() on a non-object in /home/ericlevan/public_html/acuman.us/chatscript.php on line 325
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#244Question: "Where have all the flowers gone?" Wolfram Answer: "Girls have picked them every one. (according to the 1960s folk song by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson) Acuman Answer: "I'm not really good with locations, so I don't know exactly where have all the flowers gone, but it seems to be Girls have picked them every one. (according to the 1960s folk song by Pete Seeger and Joe Hickerson)." Hmm...so closed source,…
Questions: "What is best in life?" Acuman: "What is best in life? a characteristic state or mode of living." Wolfram Alpha: "To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women."
To those who don't know, Wolfram's response is what Conan said when he was asked that question (Conan the barbarian, not the comedian, although now that I think about it, I can see Conan O'Brien giving someone that same answer in jest).
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#245This 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.
> Sean Le Van is 13.
Re: Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot
#246Amazing 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.)
If you haven't yet, you should check out the Thiel Fellowship. http://www.thielfellowship.org
I can't speak from experience, all I know is that the fellowship supports bright young talent much like you.
Anyhow, keep up the amazing work!
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#247This 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…
Wow...well I am twice your age with half the accomplishments. Way to go.
Don't forget, he knows latin.
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pedantic if you like but as with 'pregnant', you can't qualify 'unique'. You either are or you're not.
I think "most unique" works here, perhaps because I can read "most" as emphasizing the importance of the uniqueness rather than modifying its degree. Pedantry is attention to compliance with usage "rules" rather than the success of the expression.
Not a native speaker here, but that's probably not unlike "the very last", even though being last in and of itself is not gradable :)
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#249This was interesting, temporarily storing messages to cater messages slightly will make things feel more natural.
"Hello"
"Hello, by the way where you from? [...]"
"United Kingdom"
"[...] I've heard that is very nice"
"From who?"
"Who ? is an interesting person whom you can learn about on the Wikipedia article about Space Adventures – Music from 'Doctor Who' 1963–1968, whom I love.
By the way, how are you feeling right now?"
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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"
This argument that "Shakespeare wrote this therefore it's right" doesn't work.
Read How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin for several instances of where Shakespeare made English mistakes and how to actually write correct English without appeal to authority.
That argument works, though, if we were speaking a language with a regulating body, such as French or Portuguese. Those regulating bodies define their languages in such a way that the "famous writers" never make mistakes. That's not the case with English. Let's keep English real. Shakespeare made several mistakes, read Devlin's grammar.