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Messages - Helio Perroni Filho
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« on: May 28, 2006, 06:43:04 pm »
That's cool! Wish I could do that to my phone. I have a a Motorola V3 Razr and I tried plugging it into my Mac once and got a kernel panic. Guess the Unix core didn't like it?  That's odd. The V360 has an option to set whether it will try to get itself recognized as a modem or a storage device, perhaps the RAZR has a similar feature? If you can get the phone recognized as storage, then it's all a matter of copying files to the right folders.
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« on: May 27, 2006, 11:15:06 am »
A week ago I entered the new mobile era, by buying myself a Motorola V360 cell phone. However, up until this morning I hadn't got the time to properly play with the gizmo. The configuration features are more limited than I first thought, but it does offer two nice features, which are present in most modern cell phones: the ability to play MP3 files as ring tones, and the option of setting a wallpaper for the display. After a little work with the PC multimedia tool bundled with the phone, I got this as my wallpaper: http://www.geocities.com/xperroni/ehwall.gifThe black space in the bottom gets covered by the phone's toolbar, so it looks real nice. I've also managed to get an El Hazard 2 MP3 ringtone: http://www.geocities.com/xperroni/eh2tone.mp3That's it for now, but let's see what more I can make... that JVM's got to be good for something! 
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« on: May 11, 2006, 08:27:25 pm »
Ifurita now has long-time memory! When the user teaches new responses to her, they are recorded in a cookie, and retrieved whenever the user returns to her page. *snif* I'm so proud of my little girl!  Also, I have added a couple more categories to her brain, such that Robert's chat would go along these lines: > Geocities hosting is horrible thing, isn't it?
Oh, thankfuly master already moved me away from it!
> I agree.
Uh... sorry, what?
> That's a default response, right?
Yes, I'm affraid so.
> I'm too difficult, haha
Darn, you're right.
> 2 + 2?
Oh, that's easy: 4
> Bye.
'Bye for now! Come again soon!!!By the way, Geocities started blocking access to the JAR's and JS scripts that make Ifurita work, so I moved her to my account at MyJavaserver. Things work, but now it takes forever for the bot to start; there can also be a great time delay the first time each picture is loaded, or the first time a new category is learned. Thank you Geocities!
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« on: May 08, 2006, 09:09:15 pm »
Just kidding! This is pretty cool, though yeah, I have to agree that it could really use a wider variety of responses. Even Ifurita isn't THAT simple-minded. Chances are that, despite my earlier intentions, I will keep developing Ifurita for some more time. It's fun, and everytime I play with her I find new bugs or ways to improve ChatterBean.
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« on: May 08, 2006, 09:04:31 pm »
Since stealing Spanner's Ifurita images is in vogue, I decided to that again and create a MegaHAL version of Cute Weapon Ifurita for comparison. Now that's insane.  MegaHAL's approach to simulated conversation is rather sofisticated, but I wonder if it pays off -- Hutchens had more success at the Loebner Prize with his ELIZA-like HeX than with his more recent creations. I think that, at least in the short term, ELIZA's "assembly rules" make a beter job of throwing the user's inputs back at him (it does get suffocating eventually, when you realize that the conversation never goes anywhere regardless what you say).
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« on: May 08, 2006, 08:44:15 pm »
That's awesome! I can't get it to work.... but it's still awesome. What OS are you using? On Windows, check if Java's logo (a stylized coffee cup) appears in the system tray. Double-click the icon and check if it's version 1.5.0 or later. If the icon is not showing, version is earlier then 1.5.0, or you are under other OS, go to http://java.sun.com and get the latest version of the Java JRE.
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« on: May 08, 2006, 08:37:16 pm »
I don't quite get what you intend for me to do with this. I would've chosen a MegaHAL brain and did some neat server side stuff. But nice job anyway.
Well, when I slapped Ifurita's brain together I wasn't trying to make her particularly interactive. The point I was trying to make is that, with ChatterBean, you can embed a chatterbot on a web page, and the bot can interact with the underlying page (like changing the picture that represents its mood). Even so I thought some EH fans could be amused at the results, hence the post. ... Damn, now I feel challenged.  Ok, what about this? I just updated Ifurita so she can be taught new input / response patterns. For example: Hi ya! Welcome!
> Hello!
Uh... sorry, what?
> This is not a good answer.
Sorry. What would be a good answer?
> Hello, how are you?
Alright! You can ask me again to see if I got it.
> Hello...
Hello, how are you?
> I am fine, thank you.
Uh... sorry, what?
> This is not a good answer.
Sorry. What would be a good answer?
> Nice to know!
Alright! You can ask me again to see if I got it.
> I'm fine, thanks.
Nice to know!Currently these new answers are lost when you leave the page, but I will build a cookie-based persistent memory soon. Another novel feature: if you ask Ifurita "where are you from?", not only will she answer you, but also open Spanner's Ifurita and Ifurita's Dual El-Hazard Website on the background inline frame. You can also ask Ifurita to open specific pages: > Go to http://www.alicebot.org
As you wish. Web page, I summon thee! YAH!!!
(web page opens in the background)So, answering your question, what about making a virtual web guide of this?
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« on: May 06, 2006, 08:36:33 pm »
(edit: updated Ifurita's URL's.)Hello fellow dreamers! For about a year now, I am working on my own Alicebot interpreter, the ChatterBean. Recently, the project got to a point where it can be used as a client-side component in AJAX applications. In order to illustrate this approach's potential, I put together a simple Alicebot, which plays the role of Wanderer's Ifurita. It is currently accessible here: http://www.myjavaserver.com/~bitoflife/ifurita/index.htmlThe Alicebot changes the currently displaying picture of Ifurita to reflect her current mood, and can do arithmetical operations on request. Ifurita's pictures and some of her lines were shamelessly taken from Spanner's Ifurita and Ifurita's Dual El-Hazard Website -- do you think he'll be mad at it? Yes, me too. Because my only intention was to exercise ChatterBean's AJAX integration features, the list of user inputs she can recognize and provide a meaninful response for is rather restrict -- chances are you'll run into her fallback response quite often. If you want to go through the entire set of available responses (again, it's a fairly limited one), you can peek at Ifurita's "brain" here: http://www.myjavaserver.com/~bitoflife/ifurita/Ifurita.xmlIf you decide to try the bot out, keep in mind that: - Internet Explorer might block the loading of the applet, which will cause a script error. Simply grant loading permission to the applet and reload the page;
- The applet might take a while to start. Do not start typing until Ifurita greets you with the "Hi ya! Welcome!" message;
- There might be a slight delay the first time each picture gets loaded.
While Ifurita proved an interesting testing ground during development, I have no intention to further develop her at this time. If anyone is interested in working on this, contact me for details.
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« on: June 19, 2005, 12:13:41 pm »
But, I would like to pose this question to all my fellow wanderers out there: Which El Hazard Universe/Storyline would you prefer out of them all? Probably the OAV storyline. I say "probably" because the manga scores a way close second: it combines some of the best elements of both the OAV and TV storylines, and gets to develop Ifurita's personality much more. If only the ending wasn't so rushed...
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« on: June 18, 2005, 06:37:14 pm »
This is something I realized some time ago, but was yet to write a comment about. El-Hazard is pretty much ruled by women! Afterall, not only Roshtaria, the most powerful kingdom of the island, is ruled by two princesses; but also the Sages, who possess the most advanced technology available, and whose jurisdiction surpasses even that of the El-Hazardian kingdoms, are all women. Not mentioning that the Bugrom, the most powerful enemy of the Alliance, are ruled by a Queen...
Of course the matter is more aestethical than ideological. The target demography of animes like El-Hazard like to see lots of sexy women around, and so does Hayashi Hiroki (not that I disagree ^_^'). Yet it's interesting to think on the implications of this aestethical preference to the setting of the series. For example, why were the demon-gods built to resemble beautiful women? Did the Ancients related feminine beauty to power in an abstract basis... or was this relation concrete in their world? The Great Sages surely seem to make a point in favour of the later.
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« on: June 18, 2005, 12:13:12 pm »
Well, here's me in the completed Groucho armor. WOW! Now that's cosplay! And it comes with an El-Hazard 10th Anniversary banner too! Congratulations, daguru!
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« on: June 05, 2005, 08:38:08 pm »
I do not find the novel has to sell in France >:(it is not right So far you can read english, that's barely a problem. Burrough's works are public domain now, so you can freely and legaly download them from sites such as the Gutenberg Project -- see my first post for links. Perhaps the only problem with that option is that, being written about a hundred years ago, the books' vocabulary can pose a bit of a challenge; but that's nothing a good online dictionary won't help you through.
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« on: June 03, 2005, 06:57:38 pm »
I don't know about the sages, but it's chaos alright. It makes me wish play-by-forum RPG's were around 10 years ago, back when I got all the time of the world in my hands, and didn't have a chatterbot engine to care for. Oh well... hope you all have a great time with it.
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« on: June 03, 2005, 10:05:38 am »
Yay, hope you have a great time at Akon!  I look forward to hearing from you about it. And please don't forget to take some pictures of your KOS-MOS cosplay, I'd love to have a look at it.
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