On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Devyn Collier Johnson < devyncjohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 07/15/2013 08:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 06:06:06 -0400, Devyn Collier Johnson wrote: >> >> On 07/14/2013 02:17 PM, 88888 Dihedral wrote: >>> >> [...] >> >>> Do we want volunteers to speed up >>>> search operations in the string module in Python? >>>> >>> It would be nice if someone could speed it up. >>> >> Devyn, >> >> 88888 Dihedral is our resident bot, not a human being. Nobody knows who >> controls it, and why they are running it, but we are pretty certain that >> it is a bot responding mechanically to keywords in people's posts. >> >> It's a very clever bot, but still a bot. About one post in four is >> meaningless jargon, the other three are relevant enough to fool people >> into thinking that maybe it is a human being. It had me fooled for a long >> time. >> >> >> >> Wow! Our mailing list has a pet bot. I bet other mailing lists are so > jealous of us. Who ever created Dihedral is a genius! > > Artificial Intelligence developers put chatbots on mailing lists so that > the program can learn. I use Python3 to program AI applications. If you see > my Launchpad account, you will see my two AI projects - Neobot and Novabot. > (https://launchpad.net/neobot Neo and Nova are still unstable) AI > developers let their bots loose on the Internet to learn from people. > Dihedral is learning from us. Dihedral only responses when it feels it has > sufficient knowledge on the topic. Chatbots want to appear human. That is > their goal. We should feel honored that Dihedral's botmaster feels that > this mailinglist would benefit the development of Dihedral's knowledge. > > Devyn Collier Johnson > -- > http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-list<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list> > I particularly enjoy the misspellings, that seem to be such a human quality on email messages! -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com
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