Personality

Forest, will you talk to God Louise? She has quite a bit of religious knowledge (obviously) and also knows a little about current events, literature, just about any common catch-all subject, and if she doesn't know it she can sort of fake it. You can also test her on trick questions or see how willing she is to explain her paradigm.

What she is rustiest at is plain old small talk. But, uh, I'm trying to get a decent transcript from somebody or another so I can enter her in the Loebner contest. All I can say is, have fun and see if you can stay on with her for a while. I'll try to do the same with Brianna.

Perhaps she might be good enough by March to enter the Chatterbox. (though I don't want to force things.)

Go for it - the more the merrier. There's no harm in entering, and it is great fun (and generates a lot of very useful transcripts)

The CBC is so much fun. You have nothing to lose, everyone should enter.

Ah...I think I have done something stupid, but I need to check.
If you are using regular expressions, do you need to type 'raw' into the script box? Because I haven't, and I'm wondering if that's why kp aren't getting hit.

You should not have to use raw unless one of the words is not in the dictionary, though I often combine them. Try upping the ranking.

okay. I just saw an older forum post and it made me panic. I thought my gentle (if slow)way of checking things and then tweaking rankings was the way to go, and I'm glad it is.

Okay, why is the import button not working? anyone? any ideas? Did I miss a memo?

Try using Firefox to import instead of IE. IE won't import for me at all, but Opera, and Firefox work well.

okay. *grumbles* downloading on dialup, what fun...

I don't seem to have a problem exporting on Internet Explorer, but it never imports.

I have a friend I trust, perhaps she'll upload with her firefox. Downloading for me is quite painful, so getting Firefox would take hours. I was hoping it would be otherwise, but what can you do? Thank you, though.

If you have a slow Internet connection, that may kill you too. Are you on dial up?

I used to have dial up. It was a pain, especially when my bots got big. I used to get a lot of house work done waiting for the downloads.