Re: Dihedral

2013-07-24 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Fábio Santos, 16.07.2013 00:54: >> Does this mean he passes the Turing test? > > I'd say that "it" appears more correct. Or is there any indication of a > specific bot gender? (I sure might have missed it...) > > Note that being of a specific

Re: Dihedral

2013-07-24 Thread Stefan Behnel
Fábio Santos, 16.07.2013 00:54: >> On 07/15/2013 08:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> >>> Devyn, >>> >>> 8 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 ke

Re: Dihedral

2013-07-15 Thread Tim Delaney
On 16 July 2013 08:59, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Fábio Santos > wrote: > > > >> On 07/15/2013 08:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >>> > >>> Devyn, > >>> > >>> 8 Dihedral is our resident bot, not a human being. Nobody knows who > >>> controls it, and why they are

Re: Dihedral

2013-07-15 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Fábio Santos wrote: > >> On 07/15/2013 08:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> >>> Devyn, >>> >>> 8 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 respo

Re: Dihedral

2013-07-15 Thread Fábio Santos
> On 07/15/2013 08:36 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> Devyn, >> >> 8 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

Re: Dihedral

2013-07-15 Thread Wayne Werner
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Devyn Collier Johnson 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, 8 Dihedral wrote: [...] Do we want volunteers to speed up search operations in the string module in

Re: Dihedral

2013-07-15 Thread Joel Goldstick
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, 8 Dihedral wrote: >>> >> [...] >> >>> Do we want volu