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Comment Re:Bullshit article (Score 1) 208

This is very plausible. Something similar just happened to us. The error is a python type exception. They're probably letting it interpret data types. For this person it gets a boolean keyword so it types the variable as a boolean. Then they try to pass the boolean into a function that is expecting a string. It throws an unhandled exception and can't log her in.

Comment Re:Crapcode (Score 1) 208

Something similar just happened to us on a project with over 100 experienced developers. Made it past multiple code reviews and was only caught in production when we got a weird row from the db. What's likely happening is they are using python and letting it automatically interpret data types. It saw this well formatted boolean so saved the value as a boolean instead of a string. Then some function tried to format the last name using some string operation. Which throws an exception because it is expecting the input to be a string.

Comment Re:False, more likely. (Score 1) 208

We just encountered a similar problem on a project with over 100 experienced developers. They're probably using python and letting it interpret data types. Then probably they are using some string function to format the last name which throws an exception because it is expecting the input to be a string not a boolean. Now the system can't successfully log the user in.

Comment Re:This is just PR then? (Score 1) 32

No what he's saying is that because the author who is supposedly developing this doesn't know about monads then none of the responses are going to be about monads. If you look they're all very rudimentary questions and answers that don't actual show any of the deep knowledge on the subject there people would have.

Comment Lol it doesn't work (Score 1) 32

I went to the website to see the quality of the responses and they don't even allow you to interact with the chat bot. The whole website is just cherry-picked examples of questions and answers that are very dubious. A lot of just wikipedia snippets broken up. One sentence I googled and he just added one word to a line from one of Feynman's books. I put Newtons response into a plagiarism detector and it found 'significant plagiarism'. How did no one involved in writing this article notice this or do any research? I mean it's possible the network over trained to the point it's just regurgitating verbatim sentences written by the subject, but since we can't interact with the bot it seems more likely a lot of these responses are just fake.

Comment Absurdly Awesome (Score 1) 326

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