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by veesahni 1y ago
Exploring effective (hype-free) usage of AI in customer communications. https://enchant.com
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by veesahni 1y ago
great ideas Luke!
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by veesahni 1y ago
there are incredible tools available today, the child just needs the will.
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by veesahni 1y ago
There are sound effects for successful attacks. Every character has a unique attack sound!
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Back with v2! My 9 year old updated The Gamey Game based on your feedback(armaansahni.com)
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by veesahni 1y ago
My son has been learning to code. Today he’s releasing v2 of his math battle game, The Gamey Game. He’s excited to share it with you all! The Gamey Game v2: https://www.armaansahni.com/game-v2 He’s also written a blog post
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by veesahni 2y ago
Reasoning models are a result of the learnings from CoT prompting.
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by veesahni 2y ago
This is very close to what the ruby REPL will accept. I tried to paste in the kitchen sink - it didn't like dangling decimals and the comment format, everything else worked as expected.
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by veesahni 2y ago
Software is pretty cool from that perspective. Creative, intellectually stimulating & pays well. It helps that software powers everything now. If he does choose to pursue this in the future, he'll have a strong start. There's
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by veesahni 2y ago
Welll.......... before the game, he made this: https://www.armaansahni.com/pokemon/ :D
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by veesahni 2y ago
Kids dad here. There's no doubt he had a ton of guidance - both parents are experienced programmers. Many things needed explaining to a 9yo, the same things that would have needed explaining to any new developer. We went through MANY
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by veesahni 2y ago
I believe what he's created is remarkable for his age, and thus worth sharing. The way he used the LLM is very interesting, even to an adult audience. The feedback received has been incredibly valuable. Not just for improving the game,
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by veesahni 2y ago
I posted on HN back then also
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by veesahni 2y ago
Lol, he actually imagined some sort first-person 3d game, So yes, its entirely possible. We'll see where his interests take him.
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by veesahni 2y ago
Improving clarity around charging is on his plan. Its a big issue with the current version. I'll show him your feedback about the end-game. He was just excited to use document.write()'s side effect of blanking the page if it was
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by veesahni 2y ago
haha that's awesome!! pounder monster is my favorite animation
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by veesahni 2y ago
Usually starts with "Scratch" at a very young age. It's block based drag n drop programming. Here's the path my son followed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42313045
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by veesahni 2y ago
He learned about LLM hallucination the hard way, when it recommended things that didn't actually work. This next generation will have deep understanding of power and limitations of these tools. Appreciate your comments!
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by veesahni 2y ago
you need to use throwing star 4 times before it will give you access to exploding star. If you use any other star, it costs you in "charge" All of his is not clear - he plans to make it more clear for the next version
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by veesahni 2y ago
Appreciate the feedback!
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by veesahni 2y ago
One of the things he wanted to implement is "shoots" - where something goes flying to the opponent. Perhaps in a future release!
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by veesahni 2y ago
Thank you for the kind words!
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by veesahni 2y ago
Thank you for the kind words :)
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by veesahni 2y ago
I'm glad it brightened your day!! Appreciate the comments!
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by veesahni 2y ago
All in good time!
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by veesahni 2y ago
oh thats cool! I'm sure he'll be so excited to learn his game was used as a reference :)
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by veesahni 2y ago
Armaan's dad here. Let us know what your 7 year old thinks! Armaan was around 7/8 when the backis series started.
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by veesahni 2y ago
yes, just view source. No build step here, all CSS and JS is just on the one page.
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by veesahni 2y ago
The response here will provide lots of fuel for next iterations!
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by veesahni 2y ago
I described his journey here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42313045

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