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Should I laugh on that? 
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Nooooooooo I thought it was saturday!!!!!!! 
Nah, just joking, ready to leave for a walk with my wife... 
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Happy walking
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Somehow, I don't see the local tourist board using that in its publicity materials...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Still, better than Luton.
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You sound a bit too happy - police may take you in custody...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Web-based chat bot system on www.userous.com seems quite intelligent and most language used seems to be web-based.
But it seems to have low number of database.
Anyone help how the system can effectively and efficiently acquire database by itself or from users?
jp
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Jin Park wrote: Web-based chat bot system on www.userous.com seems quite intelligent
Really? It wasn't able to respond to any of my questions and requested that I train it by giving it an appropriate answer. Hardly impressive. 
/ravi
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All your post make no sense! Do you wan us to teach that little 'greenfield' some tricks?
As know he knows nothing - for sure not any sign for intelligence...
But just for you! I taught it a few words - try database, homework and Jin... 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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That is one of the most pathetically stupid chatbots I've seen.
It doesn't even recognise the same sentence with the final punctuation changed!
Eliza[^] did better...and that is 50 years old. 
I do hope this isn't going to contribute to you final grade... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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If so, what are the advantages over other programming languages.
I always hear it mentioned when reading about programming theory, but never had the opportunity, or inclination, to try it out because I was busy learning other languages for which I was getting paid.
Is there anything I can learn from getting familiar with LISP or is it a language that was once ahead of it's time but now relegated to the annals of 20th century computer history?
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JimmyRopes wrote: Does anyone code with LISP
No, I tend to be pretty quiet with my headphones on. I don't talk to people much, unless I need to discuss something with my cohort in crime. But even then, I don't talk with a lisp.
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It is cruel to have a p in the word to describe a lisp. 
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Ah yes, I just remembered: <u>L</u>ots of <u>I</u>nsipid <u>S</u>tupid <u>P</u>arentheses.
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I've downloaded Lisp a couple of times in the past and started to work with it and learn and after about 2 days I think what the hell would I do with it?
I've started to get into Python and want to learn it to run on Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone Black if I can ever get it unbricked.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Beaglebone Black if I can ever get it unbricked
Ouch! I must have missed that one - how did you brick it?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Evidently it's something that happens sooner or later, it's an experimenters board you just reflash it or boot from from uSD and your back in business. That's the selling point.
Well I'm learning Liunx and BBB so I tried for a couple of days to get an image to boot from uSD=>No luck.
So in my wiseness I think why don't I try to backup the image to the uSD, because I can mount and R/W to/from the uSD so I do a linux dd command but I got the source/destination backwards so I overwrote part of my image and when I reboot can no longer ssh into BBB.
So I thought no problem I'll just reflash it...wah thanks for playing!
So it seems the BBB is not as stable a platform as they say it is.
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Oooo...nasty.
Did they just laugh when you told them, or are they going to do something?
(This is why I may be old-fashioned, but I like a minimum boot loader in EPROM rather than flash...)
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I wrote a long pleading email for information and told them when I tried to flash with the uSD in the slot none of the lights came on and they wrote me back asking if the same thing happened without the uSD and I wrote back yes and the last I heard, but to be fair I answered on Thursday so they may not have had time to answer. But quite frankly I don't expect them to do anything about it.
So I should have went with my original choice and got a Pi, which I have since ordered. From all the research I've done since the bricking it seems like the Pi will be a little more Mike proof. 
I did find a post that someone had done the exact same thing and it seems that if you overwrite upper memory that is where some of the bootloader resides and so you have to use a serial device and go in and manually tell the it to boot from the uSD??? I haven't tried yet am waiting for Adafruit to get back to me plus not sure if my USB to serial card will work at 3.3V? Right now it's a software/firmware problem I don't want to compound the problem.
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Serial (well, RS232) is a nominal +12V/-12V, so there will be a USART or similar converter to switch from the internal +3.3V/0V the device uses so there shouldn't be a hardware problem. I'd leave it until the manufacturers had had a good chance to answer before playing myself though. You could make it worse! 
If it makes you feel better, I have a bricked Linksys Media Hub with 1TB HDD sitting on a shelf gathering dust, so it's not just experimental devices that do it. 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: Serial (well, RS232) is a nominal +12V/-12V, so there will be a USART or similar converter to switch from the internal +3.3V/0V the device uses so there shouldn't be a hardware problem. I'd leave it until the manufacturers had had a good chance to answer before playing myself though. You could make it worse!
Thanks that's kinda what I thought but as you say I want to wait for the distributor to get back to me.
OriginalGriff wrote: If it makes you feel better, I have a bricked Linksys Media Hub with 1TB HDD sitting on a shelf gathering dust, so it's not just experimental devices that do it.
I had a couple of XBee modules that did the same thing, hadn't used them for a couple of years???
I tend to push things to the limit so it doesn't surprise me that I bricked the BBB, it's a new device and not as stable as the Pi. I knew that going in but thought it a better choice because of the added I/O and such. Sh*t happens!
On a lighter note, I'm taking a class on embedded systems and they require a $13 32-bit ARM development board[^] for use in the class and when I got it and started working with it I really like it and may use it on my rover instead of the AVR boards I was going to use. Very impressive!
The only downside to arm development is the price of the IDEs...whew! Guess I'll be using Eclipse!
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I like ARM as a processor (and they are a nice company to speak to as well) - I used ARM7/ARM9 ten or so years ago in assembler and Embedded C++ and was very impressed. But...the software developer kit costs were ridiculous at around $7500 per user back then! 
Nowadays you can (in theory) target VS2012 at ARM and it should compile C++, but I have no idea about libraries and so forth for a bare-bones system. I'll admit that Eclipse is one of the things that has put me off learning Android development!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I'm using a lite version of uVision that limits code size to 32K which is not to bad but it's ~$2800 based on the Eclipse IDE and I'll admit it's a good system but the editor sucks.
When I first started doing embedded I looked at using Eclipse and got feed up after a couple of days of trying to get the debugger to work that I gave up. But when I got the BBB and installed the ARM plugin I was a lot more impressed with it.
So it's either;
1) Live with the 32K lite version of uVision
2) Gulp...Learn to use Eclipse
3) Sell an appendage, I'd have to check on this one thou I think the ex got dibs on them in divorce.
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Mike Hankey wrote: I think the ex got dibs on them in divorce
Count your kidneys!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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