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I am going to take a step back from the technical merits of this and say the whole thing seems sad. I don't need a need a dog collar on my neck or a badge on my shirt. Lastly, you know life is over when you spend your time talking and hanging out with a AI bot. Our society has become so isolated because people are on Facebook and Instagram instead of talking to each other.
I'm not sure how to interpret the fact that you just typed this message into a textbox.
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It's a bitcoin fork. It looks like they're using it as a form of bond or stock; it's (partly/mostly) pre-mined, they're selling it at a particular rate, and they'll buy it back later when they start making a profit. Interesting! Anyone know someone else who's trying something similar?
I've got an email for a Nigerian prince you might be interested in.
Still, given what I expect the time investment was? A worthwhile experiment. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't, but you probably learn something.
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Yes, and also adapting to mental concepts of different things. That starts with phrases, but also applies to other concepts – different cultures have different orientation systems even (some use cardinal directions (north, east, south, west), some use relative directions (front, right, back, left), etc)
I've only heard of one example of the cardinal directions being used as a main orientation reference in day-to-day language: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html... I never read the research about this but examples are http://anthroweb.ucsd.edu/~jhaviland/Publications/ETHOSw.Dia... and http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:66622:3/compon... (very interesting stuff!). Edit: I would high…
Even colors depend on cultures heavily. The ancient greek are believed not to have seperated between yellow and green, other cultures similar.
Internationalization is a lot harder than it seems to most people. And then there’s also accessibility.
Even with traditional UIs where everything is hand made it’s already an extremely huge task, but a conversational UI is far more personal.
It has to deal with things like how much privacy or directness is expected in cultures, with taboos, it has to have a full perceptional model of the person who will hear it to be able to properly handle all this.