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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 »

tete wrote: post #285

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

I have indeed heard about FreeHAL. It won "Most Popular" (in the past) in the same contest in which my bot most recently was awarded "Best New Bot". FreeHAL is now discontinued, last I've heard.

Though were did you hear that it's creator was 13-years-old during itself inception? I'm not doubting it, I just haven't found any online sources to validate that point.

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

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Post by innguest »

chernevik wrote: post #266
innguest wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

English isn't a compiled language. We can offer expressions that violate its "rules" and are still effective and powerful. It cannot be any other way. We know from Godel that no logical system can be consistent _and_ complete, so the use any human language must either admit violations of principle or accept limitations on what can be said in that language. It is the quality and success of the expression, not its comp…

Your Lewis quote contradicts your very first paragraph, as the quote argues languages aren't like logic and arithmetic, and in your first paragraph you assume languages are like logic and arithmetic enough to suffer from the same incompleteness problem (if I remember correctly only systems that include arithmetic can't be proven consistent?).

"More than one person is" is correct not because of any systematic reason, but because of euphony - it is more pleasing to the ear than "more than one person are". That, and whether the communication was effective, are the rulers of languages. That's how we got to where we are and how we go to where we are going. Not with central bodies regulating languages and not with language authorities we must emulate or check our usage against.

> Complaints about the "mistakes" of great authors are generally [...]

Yes, a lot of people have trouble accepting that even the greats make mistakes.

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

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Post by innguest »

chernevik wrote: post #269
innguest wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So Humpty Dumpty is a relativist? "It just means what I choose it to mean" is the basis of Relativism. Could Humpty Dumpty say "I like ice cream" and mean "atoms are actually divisible"? If not then does that mean your argument is a boatload of crap?

When someone quotes a great author, they are often not standing on a single sentence, but on the larger meaning of some story signified by that sentence. Star Trek's Tamarians whole language was references to stories -- "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" is, for them, a highly compressed statement. So literature enormously expands our vocabulary, allowing us to use quotes as "pointers" to ideas much larger than anything w…

> When someone quotes a great author [it is for] the larger meaning of some story signified by that sentence.

That doesn't work when people are exchanging ideas on a forum and not everyone has read the same body of work. Because of the difficulty inherent in estimating who has read what, it is usually smart to avoid arguments "from the arts".

> allowing us to use quotes as "pointers" to ideas much larger than anything we could state briefly.

Larger than you could state briefly. Plus, aphorisms exist to fill in the gap you're talking about - all the benefits of brevity without the need for previous literary knowledge.

The excerpt you quoted reads like a boring story about a character that suffers from an affectation that makes him (her?) obsessed with trying to find reasons for using words loosely. I also didn't understand what he/she meant by "there's glory for you" even after the supposed explanation of what "glory" means in Dumpty's head.

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

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Post by EugeneOZ »

ColinWright wrote: post #202
madaxe_again wrote: post #196

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So, I asked it: What's e^i(pi)+1? The response was... a little out. I'm impressed it had a crack at least. "It's 2.69740975483297316969108251300445672427640640289560... + 2.64355906408145617888606598966971861665798063847235.." Edit: Heh, asked it the square root of i, and the answer made me chuckle: The square root of you is (-1)^(1/4). I don't know why I'm expecting a bot to know complex plane mathematics and euler'…

Its response to your first question is in fact exactly right, because you didn't ask what you thought you asked. Your brackets are in the wrong place. You asked: e^i(pi)+1 which is: (pi * (e^i) ) + 1 which is: 2.69740975.. + 2.64355906... i So it was right. And sqrt(i) is sqrt(sqrt(-1)) which is (-1)^(1/4), so again, it was right (excepting that it put "you" instead of "i") So it did better than you think.

> excepting that it put "you" instead of "i"

just one drop of the sense of humor maybe :)

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

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Post by jeffhuys »

seanlevan wrote: post #252
ins0 wrote: post #208

Question: "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,…

I don't get what's new about any of this. I disclosed in this thread in other answers already the APIs I use, I have yet to know any "intelligent" piece of artificial intelligence software that is not dependent whatsoever on external APIs. (Read: Siri, which is much more dependent on the WolframAlpha API then mine is). To me, it wouldn't be intelligent not to straddle the large resources of data available. What you p…

You're asking whats your name? I can't put my finger on it, but I'm pretty sure it's I don't know, but I can offer data about many names; maybe even your name if you tell me what it is..

On a side note, you told me earlier something about yourself, that ' my name is jeff'. I thought it might be relevant to your question.

Great bot

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

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Post by jeffhuys »

seanlevan wrote: post #31
stringcleansing wrote: post #19

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it may be crashed from a lack of input cleansing

Thanks for checking it out. I assure you that's not the problem. :) I was tampering with a source code, and simply incorrect PHP syntax (a missing bracket) broke it for a few minutes.

Live editing?! Oh man...

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

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Post by chernevik »

innguest wrote: post #293
chernevik wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When someone quotes a great author, they are often not standing on a single sentence, but on the larger meaning of some story signified by that sentence. Star Trek's Tamarians whole language was references to stories -- "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" is, for them, a highly compressed statement. So literature enormously expands our vocabulary, allowing us to use quotes as "pointers" to ideas much larger than anything w…

> When someone quotes a great author [it is for] the larger meaning of some story signified by that sentence. That doesn't work when people are exchanging ideas on a forum and not everyone has read the same body of work. Because of the difficulty inherent in estimating who has read what, it is usually smart to avoid arguments "from the arts". > allowing us to use quotes as "pointers" to ideas much larger than anythin…

Humpty isn't really about using words _loosely_:

"'If you can see whether I'm singing or not, you've sharper eyes than most,' Humpty Dumpty remarked severely."

If you think "Alice In Wonderland" is boring, you're missing out.

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

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Post by thrownawayadv »

grandalf wrote: post #159
wickawic wrote: post #14

"What do you think about the situation in the Middle East?" "on the situation in the middle east? Just fantastic, what is there not to like about the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees."

Wow it actually has a sense of humor :)

For some values of "humor". (Just don't ask it to tell you a joke.)
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