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Ha ha -- fun! I'm embarrassed to say that I actually wrote that ELIZA ... in 1973, when I was ~13! It's a very poor BASIC knockoff of JW's 1966 ELIZA/DOCTOR.
by abrax3141 3y ago
Ha ha -- fun!
I'm embarrassed to say that I actually wrote that ELIZA ... in 1973, when I was ~13! It's a very poor BASIC knockoff of JW's 1966 ELIZA/DOCTOR. Having it talk to Bernie Cosell's Lisp ELIZA, or even better, Anthony Hay's C++ ELIZA, would be a better experiment.
See http://elizagen.org http://elizagen.org for more detail
- fires10 3y agoI used to play with ELIZA on a TRS-80 back in the 80's. I have definitely wanted to see this.
- doctor_eval 3y agoDon’t be embarrassed, be proud!
- abrax3141 3y agoYeah, okay. Is there a word for being proud and embarrassed at the same time? ... Prembarassed?
- chirau 3y agoSheepish
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoA nerd? (From a fellow nerd)
- elromulous 3y agoGermans - this is addressed to you.
- funkenknecht 3y agoin German: "Verlegen" definition: "Peinlich berührt, beschämt, aber auch stolz oder erfreut"
- alpaca128 3y agoNot to be confused with "verlegen" used as verb, which has like 3 different meanings of its own.
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- pama 3y agoProudbarrassed.
- baobabKoodaa 3y agoHumblebrag
- ftxbro 3y agoin usa they call it as "humbled" like anywhere from "I'm humbled to receive this nobel prize" to "I'm humbled to get gold star employee of the month at arby's" or "I'm humbled to see so many in the audience tonight." Also the act of raising a point only to be self humbled by it in this manner is 'humblebrag' like if you say "I was so embarrassed I got full points on math section of GRE does it mean I'm a nerd" or "I'm so bad at verbal I missed one question on GRE verbal section does it mean I'm really not an empath after all?"
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoHoly cow! What a legend. You should be proud
- tda 3y agoA nice interview with Jeff on Eliza and Elizagen: https://corecursive.com/eliza-with-jeff-shrager/ https://corecursive.com/eliza-with-jeff-shrager/ It was recorded just before ChatGPT became a thing, but I only recently listened to it. Until recently I wrote off chatbots as an annoying to get a canned response. Now I use one almost daily as a rather efficient (compared to wading through forums and search results) way to explore ideas.
- abrax3141 3y agoThanks! BTW, there’s a bunch of minor corrections and clarifications here: https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/the-original-eliza https://sites.google.com/view/elizagen-org/the-original-eliz... And if you’re into this sort of thing, just yesterday Mel Hogan, host of The Data Fix, released an interview with the whole ELIZAGEN team: https://shows.acast.com/the-data-fix/episodes/chatter-with-david-m-berry-peggy-weil-arthur-schwarz-mark-ma https://shows.acast.com/the-data-fix/episodes/chatter-with-d...
- dang 3y agoWell this is one for the highlights list: https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights. (explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35809302 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35809302)
- richardw 3y agoKudos. I copied a Basic version from a book or magazine into my Amstrad CPC-464 in the ‘80’s. It was magic.
- Terretta 3y agoDid you have anything to do with Racter?
- abrax3141 3y agoNo. Racter was over a decade later.
- Terretta 3y agoI know, just ... 13 + a decade is 23 and you probably weren't yet past your prime. :-)
- abrax3141 3y agoYeah, and in those days kids weren’t all learning to program in utero.
- tanseydavid 3y ago>> ...learning to program in utero UTERO? Is that a new language? </sarc>
- abrax3141 3y agoOkay, so it literally took me three reading to get this! :-)
- abrax3141 3y agoOkay, so I asked ChatGPT4 to "Please program a short pattern matcher in Utero." At first it complained: "I'm sorry, but as of my knowledge cut-off in September 2021, there's no programming language called "Utero". Utero is the Latin term for womb, it's not known as a coding or programming language." But I insisted: "Make up what a language that might be called "Utero" would look like if you were to program factorial in it." Here's what it said: Designing a hypothetical programming language named "Utero" is a creative exercise, and the language's structure and syntax could take any form. For the sake of this example, let's envision "Utero" as a language inspired by human biology, in which functions are organs and code blocks are cells. Factorial is the product of an integer and all the integers below it, and here's how it might look in our imagined Utero: Organ factorial(Num n) cells: if (n equals 0) then: give 1; else: give n times factorial(n minus 1); endif; endcells;