Building Programs like CompuTalk in PYTHON

Today, I built a program in PYTHON ( which is now my favorite programming language of all time) as a fun little experiment. Inspired by the movie "War Games" I built a simple program that would allow the user to communicate with his or her computer as if it were a person. There are a small number (I don't want to sit all night typing line after line similar code) of preprogrammed word and phrases that the user can type in to get a response. For instance: "hello" would output "Greetings. How are you?", "fine" would output "Fascinating. I am neither good nor bad.", and so-on and so-fourth.

The Program is called CompuTalk (click to download), and you can download it via The BW Files.

From Passion to Action Science Lecture

Today I gave a lecture on how I went from my passion to action. I discuss both BW Science Labs and Science Quarterly in a two part series.

And no, my voice does not sound like this in real life.




You can also watch this video here.




You can also watch this video here.

This lecture was given in front of about 200 or 300 people, and hopefully many more online.

Here are the slides (click to enlarge):













A very special thanks to Nancy Fortman for her support for the past three years, and to David Mugglebee for making this presentation possible.