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Re:The Power of Starting Again on Saturday December 31, 2022 @06:34PM (#34201864)
Yes. After missing a streak, gamified apps should adapt their feedback metric from current streak to cumulative days over a meaningful period (week, 1-3-6 months, year) to encourage resuming the habit.
Hey, author of the Haskell re-write (https://github.com/facebook/duckling). We've implemented custom dimensions for extensibility (example: https://github.com/facebook/duckling/blob/master/exe/CustomD...).
Re:Ferret – A free software Clojure implementation on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @03:16AM (#14955255)
Just in case you've missed it: https://hy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
This is actually my first Haskell project. I feel pretty comfortable with monads, and I haven't read the Baroque Cycle yet. :-)
Clojure doesn't have a strong adoption within Facebook.
Hey, main developer here. Happy to answer any questions folks might have!
Awesome. I love these open initiatives to tackle big problems all together (like the bAbI tasks for NLU).
Re:Show HN: Wit.ai Bot Engine beta on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @06:50PM (#11484264)
(Wit.ai engineer here)

Thank you for the interest :-)

We haven't released any examples showing an integration with Messenger Platform API. In the meantime, please refer to the Messenger Platform docs: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/quic...

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Re:Population.io – The World Population Project on Saturday October 03, 2015 @11:01PM (#10326249)
"You are the NaN person alive on the planet."

Yes! I'm not a number!