I don't know if I have a modern day HERO I have modern day celebrities I think are cooler than others but that's about it Ok well actually I think my grandpa is a pretty big hero for me He's just an all around great guy He's always crazy warm and friendly And his wife of course And they're way funny people. They like to laugh and they make EVERYONE laugh And they laugh with other people. They just have a way of putting other people at ease So that would be one hero for me What about you?
oh! hey!
Hahah hi.
sorry I just saw your messages
Sorry No worries
let me catch up real quick
Sorry. I sent a lot
haha, you're perfectly fine. On the last chat when I didn't get any replies I just went on a long monologue
Haha same And then I quit because I thought it might be a bot trying to rack up chat count
haha, quality vs quantity? the bot cant tell lol (jk) oh haha yeah, that makes sense you're the first actual user I've gotten a message from so far
Really?
this modern day hero prompt is a little bit weird tbh oh yeah haha
I was chatting a bunch yesterday and almost everyone responded
I think people just login and wait interesting
I only got one bot And like one person who didn't respond
it porbably didnt help that I was trying at midnight lol oh really? a bot?
Haha probably
isn't that against the rules?
Yeah, I reported it and they took it off
huh, thats interesting
It would just spew out nonsensical 6 word sentences Like 3 per second
theyre that responsive oh lol that would be awkward
So I quit
(that second to last message was meant as a question, sorry :))
At first I thought it would be funny to respond with as equally nonsensical and formulaic sentences But I couldn't type as fast
but yeah, that makes sense
Yeah they are.
yeah lol and they probably might have been suspicious of you too or at least take those points away
Yeah that's true Then I would look like a bot Haha what if two identical bots chatted eachother And it just went on forever
that was a prompt and honestly
Really?
it's pretty ugly when it happens yeah lol
I haven't got it yet
have you ever used cleverbot?
Yeah but it was a while ago I remember the chats go weird kind of fast
haha, it's probably only gotten worse since
I think I had to mess around with it for a highschool cs class
really most chatbots are pretty terrible
Is it always training off of new chat data ?
that's an interesting class assignment haha cleverbot is yeah
Haha yeah
so that's why so many of the messages are so random people intentionally feed it nonsense
I wonder what this bot will be like
hopefully better haha
Part of the difficulty with training it off of chats is that people sometimes respond fairly nonlinearly. Like they'll answer a chat from several chats ago
i almost typed "lol" but then I remembered that's not allowed haha
Haha, oops
oh yeah, it get's messy not quite like real life where it happens sequentially
You have to be good at contextual reading Yeah Well, I mean real life has it's fair share of talking at the same time But it's a little better because you can control the structure of speaking order with your body language and facial expressions and stuff
yeah, though to be honest real life tends to be messier
Just in different ways
yeah, the majority of communicaiton is non-verbal
I know this is meant to be a project about AI but you could do a lot of really interesting data analysis in other areas to
it's kind of wierd how you can talk to someone who seems to speak english fluently but then when you see them write you see just how much work your brain was doing to make it make sense true
Hahah yeah
from what I understand much of AI is based off of neurology and linguistics
Yeah At least this one is It's trained from a neural net I think
so i guess I have to ask based off the context if you're a cs student? yeah i think so
Yeah I am Are you?
okay, makes sense yeah, just a freshman though
Same actually
oh cool! where are you from (generally, because no personal info) *?
But I've been doing cs stuff on my own since I was a kid I've lived in a lot of different places
hey that's cool and same
Including utah before college
oh? so you know your way around utah pretty well then?
Haha probably not as well as I should What got you into cs in the first place?
haha, well I was born here and I have no idea (although I only lived here for like 3 months haha) idk, I guess I always liked computers
That's cool I did to But I never considered cs seriouslt
when I was in middle school I took a computers class where they showed us something kind of like scratch and I decided I wanted to learn to program
I actually kind of got into it by accident to be honest Ooh cool
oh really? how so?
My first real exposure was with scratch I loved it
haha, not much of a special story
Well..
scratch was the best (emphasis on was)
What do you mean? isn't it still around?
oh it totally is, but once you learn any real programming language there's no going back
Oh right Defenitely
remember having to manually create variables? xD
Haha yeah
that was rough
One time I went back after I knew a little java and c
I remember learning that you could make functions that returned values and being mind blown oh that must have been rough
Because I wanted to enter a school programming project but I didn't know how to make a gui in anything besides scratch
niceeeeeee
I never learned functions in scratch. I only got the point of them after I graduated scratch Anyways I ended up making a whole spreadsheet program like a REEEEALLY basic and hard to use version of excell in scratch
yeah, I used them once or twice but never quite figured out why someone would lol, that sounds like an interesting project
Took me like 7 hours
yeah, I can believe it
Most pointless but still kind of neat project I've done
that would be a nightmare
Really only neat to me because it took a lot of work
yeah, it definitely counts as a feat
Anyways, to answer your question about how I accidentally got into it all My parents came to me one summer and asked what I wanted to do
I'm going to run and get a drink of water real quick so feel free to type out a long answer i'll be back soon though
Because they wanted me to keep doing worthwhile things when school wasn't in Haha ok, no worries. I'll just finish this little story Anyways. I wanted to sound like a real smart kid So I said "I want to learn computer programming" Because that sounded like a smart person thing. And I wasn't really serious but a few days later my mom came to me with a printed out sheets of a bunch of links to beginning programming websites A few of them were just logic games to "help you think like a programmer"
(i'm back, but i'm listening)
Welcome back. I hope you are hydrated. Anyways, one of them was scratch. So after a lot of experimenting I realized what you could do with it
haha, thanks
My first three projects were basically just me doing what I did in ms paint because that's all I ever did for fun on the computer up to that point So I literally just drew with the mouse And made pictures with sprites And a few weeks later I made mt first project where the bull sprite said "hello" to the cat sprite and the cat sprite said "hello, how are you" back
the infamous "..."
Hahaha
oh dear (((detroit:become human)))
And that was the start of my programming experience What? Is that a reference I don't get? I'm sorry
oh it's just a meme haha no worries
Oh. I'm so uncultured I used to follow memes on reddit a ton
hey, other than internet culture, there's a good chance you know wayyyy more than me reddit master race
Haha
yeah, I'm definitely pretty uncultered
Eventually I realized how much time I wasted on reddit so I kind of quit
reddit definitely has an ability to consume time
I still go back occasionally, mostly to tech forums to find answers to questions though What are your favorite subs?
hmmmmm well, I think the one that I end up seeing the most from is r/me_irl
classic
which is essentially the breeding ground for all memes yeah haha today though today was something else have you ever heard of antinatalism?
what's your opinion: r/me_irl or r/dankmemes
oooooh, that's a tough one
No I haven't actually
my loyalty is going to have to go with me_irl
I'd say me-irl most of the time but both of them did their fair share of reposting
probably for the better haha
Haha ok
when you see a repost >o (that's a fish by the way)
One of my favorites was called r/breadStapledToTrees Haha nice. I know that one at least
oh my goodness I've heard of that
It's amazing
it's so random
It's literally just pictures of bread stapled to trees
but so is pretty much all of reddit
It makes me smile to think of it
yeah, pretty true to its name i suppose
I also liked r/hmmm
I don't think I've ever heard of that one
It's just weird pictures
anything like r/showerthought? of, interesting
It was kind of newer and tended to have more fresh content
r/whatisthisthing has a lot of those too yeah, there seem to be plenty of odd things in the world to take pictures of haha
I also kind of got into r/photoshop_requests Yes defenitely. Usually they were intentionally odd pictures
oh? you do photoshop?
Or photoshopped Yeah, just for the fun of it
it seems you have evolved from your days in paint
Haha a little bit. I'd say so
ms paint is a nightmare
But I always take time to remember my humble origins as an ms paint padowan
haha, all great things start small
Photoshop requests was great because half the responses were sarcastic
how so?
Like "can you move my arm so it's touching the leaning tower of pisa?"
photoshop is beyond me well then haha
And they would literally detach her arm and slide it over to touch the tower Instead of moving it in a natural way That kind of thing
that's amazing
There were some pretty hilarious ones actually
there's a programming subreddit that reminds me of that sort of thing
Oh yeah? which one? I liked r/programmingHumor
alas, its tittle was not chosen with mormons in mind essentially r/"crappy"programming
Haha right I know that class of subreddit Like crappyAskScience That one was funny
I was looking at a post from there and I was so confused because none of it made sense
Hahaha I hadn't heard of that sub
oh yeah lol, especially when people post things there unironically but it's actually terrible
It sounds very funny Hahahaha yeah
yeah, they were going on about how to triple a number
What's a sample post from that sub? Ok yeah?
unfortunately I think the only way to put a url in here is to type it out manually
Yeah you're right I was thinking just describe the post
but yeah the op said that in order to double a number you just said "double x" which I guess if it were some bizzare programming language would make sense
but that might be too much work
yeah haha, i'll try
Hahahahahahaha that's amazing
but the solutions were something along the lines of (double + 1) x or (double*1.5) x
I'm laughing out loud
I was begining to question my existence yeah, it's that kind of subreddit haha
Maybe I'll go check it out
you should lol
Honestly a big reason why I never got back into reddit is because it's hard to filter, especially on mobile
also, with the photoshop sort of memes oh yeah haha
But I found a pretty good chrome extension that does it
reddit is full of some real weird stuff like seriously
It's just desktop only
some time go check out r/antinatalism
And it can't filter images, just text
I have yet to see something so cringy
Haha ok, what's it about? Or should I just experience it?
yeah, adult stuff is pretty common but fortunately they have a setting for that well you might as well check it out real quick it's essentially the worst possible philosophy
Oh yeah, that too. I was thinking just text in images. Like memes and stuff
yeah, langauge isn't the best either i suppose
Haha ok I'm going there now
high school was pretty desensitising to language though best of luck haha
Is it ironic or sincere?
oh it's sincere and it's awful
Ugh ok
did you see it?
Oh man Yeah that's cringy
like i genuinly feel bad for those people but goodness is it hard to take them seriousky
Seriously It's sad how much dumb things can get brought to the surface when people get put in a crowd with other people who will echo them
mob mentality of a sort I suppose and pessimism is pretty contagious
Yeah. Like, those people on their own probably wouldn't really say that sort of stuff in a crowd of other more...normal people.
yeah. it's kind of wierd how globalism has actually made it easier for people to create an artifical reality
That's a really interesting point. I've never thought of that.
like it would make the most sense for global information systems to put people all on the same page which it has done largely but it also allows people to create their own little isolated environments where they can silence any dissent
Yeah, that's the worst And you see it on both sides of any debate
oh goodness it's almost midnight yeah totally
And one side feels like they have to do it more because the other side is doing it and they can't get beat out of the "race" Oh wow you're right. Haha probably a good time to call it for now
politics is so polarised these days yeah probably
It's been a good chat!
although it did just occur to me that tommorow/today is the last day of the compeitition
These online chats make me want to continue talking
oh yeah haha
What?
we should figure out some way to establish communication outside
I thought it went to october 5th
wait let me check i hope
Yeah. How can we do that without giving information
oh my goodness i'm so blind it's november 16th that it ends
Haha you're good Oh that's a long time
i hate the romans so much for messing up the calendar like why cant NOVember be the ninth month? whatever
But aren't there like a few different points at which they reset the score?
yeah, four times i think october 5th is the first one also rn i'm looking for some sort of editable pastebin so that we could establush contact and then delete it
Oh that's a good idea I was thinking just like meet up on campus sometime
oh that's totally possible but like i'm too lazy to figure that out rn haha
haha same
okay i think i got something
What about like a box link or a google drive link that we can delete? Oh ok, what is it?
that would work but I think that that can be traced somehow
Probably
honestly I dont care if some random internet stranger knows who i am but i feel like we can get in trouble okay so what i found was codeshare.io
Ok, how does it work?
it's anonymous and editable well i think i just send you a link codeshare.io/aVdKXP
Ok cool
tell me if that works I had to type that out with my own hands :( so hard this is the 21st century people
Hahaha Got it
copy and paste is a thing cool
Can you see my edits?
yep! we can probably get off of this now and just switch to that and then at the end just put something random in it