Hello?
do you know a jeffrey?
Probably... can you be more specific?
jeffrey wingate went to my highschool
Oh! No, I don't have any family members named Jeffrey. Where did you go to high school?
china u?
No kidding!  What brings you to the USA?
$$$ u?
I am from New Mexico.
oh do you know Taos?
Yes! I'm from Los Alamos.
cool!
Have you ever been there? Are you still there?
yeah kind of a hippy town but beautiful mountains
Agreed on both counts.
the sangre de cristos are my fav
Why did you visit Taos?
I was working at Philmont for about 8 months in Cimarron
Oh, neat.  Were you a boy scout?
girl scout. nice try.
lol!  *blush* I didn't know the girl scouts used Philmont.  That's cool. What was your favorite part of Philmont?
rock climbing!
That makes me jealous.  I love rock climbing. But I'm not very good at it.     :(
aw that's too bad I'll teach you!
Heh.  I'd have to find a gym somewhere first.
are you in provo?
Are there any good places in Provo?
yeah!
Where?
the Quarry!
Where's that?
its near the neighborhood wal-mart https://www.quarryclimbing.com/
Oh!  Now I remember.  By the old dollar movie theater?
yepyep
I actually have been there a couple of times, many years ago.
ohhhhh you're pulling my tail?
No, I'm serious!  Full disclosure: I am the professor who is in charge of the chitchat challenge. So I decided to log in and see how things were going. I think I went to the quarry about 20 years ago. No kidding. :)
:)
What are you studying here at BYU?
World Domination it's a new major in the Business School
Awesome!
so what's the purpose of the study?
Is that a short major or a long major? We're using artificial intelligence to build a conversational AI. Modern AI techniques are based on learning from data. But we need lots of data. So we're running the competition to record conversations between people.
oh interesting I've had multiple empty chat rooms here
Yeah.  Sometimes it's hard to get folks actually connected. We just launched today, and there are a few bugs we need to work out.
1. are you going to have it automatically disconnect chatrooms that are idle too long? 2. adding a feature that indicates when someone else is typing through some element of javascript would be helpful
Regarding #1: yeah, probably.  Eventually.  There are other features that we're trying to add first, but that's a good suggestion. Regarding #2: DEFINITELY agree.  I just haven't gotten around to it. Speaking of which, I should probably sign off.
what framework are you guys using? oh okay