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MegaHAL

Saturday, November 6, 2010

One of my sabbatical projects is MegaHAL.10, an entirely new version of the mildly popular chatterbot that I wrote and put online fifteen years ago. I’ve been writing it in Google’s Go programming language, and I recently started getting some exciting results. MegaHAL.10 generates sentences using a second-order Markov model. That means they tend to [...]

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Go

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Yesterday I posted the following on Twitter: Why is the #golang community so much more holier-than-thou than the #ruby community? Harumph to all sanctimonious hackers. This got a concerned response from someone who works at Google as a “Go Gopher”, whatever that means. It also made me feel like a dirty troll, which wasn’t my [...]

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Conversation Simulation and Sensible Surprises

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Here’s a book chapter that I wrote in 2000 and that wasn’t published until late 2008. Enjoy! Probably best to read in full-screen, or click through to Issuu and download the PDF.

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