Bug Stomp
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an xnomatch, then shouldn't it go there, come what may?It seems to me that it used to. I have had the seek system fail a lot recently.
NO bots on line all morning
I couldn't even get the site to load in the morning, and for most of the afternoon.
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Mine have been stuck on 15 January. Most unseemly. Do you suppose this janitorial strike will continue much longer?
If the response to a keyphrase has just one seek, an xnomatch, then shouldn't it go there, come what may? For example, if one has:
This response has a single xnomatch seek.
+ xnomatch [0]
It ought to be followed by this.
and assuming that the response, "This response has a single xnomatch seek." cannot be generated by any other response, then if I see
This response has a single xnomatch seek.
in the transcript, it ought to be immediately followed by
It ought to be followed by this.
ought it not? Unless the bot crashes or says goodbye or ... are there any other exceptions? Because it seems to happen to my bots fairly often that they are working their way down a line of lone xnomatches, and they jump to somewhere else.
I often use such strings of xnomatches to tell long stories, a sentence or two at a time. It's rather frustrating to have control jump away in the middle of such a story.
This response has a single xnomatch seek.
+ xnomatch [0]
It ought to be followed by this.
and assuming that the response, "This response has a single xnomatch seek." cannot be generated by any other response, then if I see
This response has a single xnomatch seek.
in the transcript, it ought to be immediately followed by
It ought to be followed by this.
ought it not? Unless the bot crashes or says goodbye or ... are there any other exceptions? Because it seems to happen to my bots fairly often that they are working their way down a line of lone xnomatches, and they jump to somewhere else.
I often use such strings of xnomatches to tell long stories, a sentence or two at a time. It's rather frustrating to have control jump away in the middle of such a story.
I couldn't even get the site to load in the morning, and for most of the afternoon.
Yes, but... in general, when the Forge is working, does the language center upload work for you? I ask because I got a note from the Professor saying that it had worked for him. So I'm wondering if I'm just doing something wrong, because I'm not getting anything from it, not even from teeny tiny bots.
Thanks for the info!
Has anyone been successful? I'm trying to figure out whether I've just been doing something wrong - and perhaps many of us have.
Also, does anyone have an informed opinion about how much the slowness of the Forge might be do to the hangers-on? I often log in and see someone being mentioned as having been on for an hour or more; I click on the name and discover someone with no bots. They are not all from Leeds, by the way.
For serious botmakers the ratio of bot improvement to person-person chatting time is fairly large, especially when things are working well. Perhaps this could be made a requirement for extended membership. Or at least, that they should chat with the bots once in awhile.
If the hangers-on are not contributing to the slowness, I don't begrudge them a place to chat, but the slowness has really been a pain, especially lately when we have to work on-line because of problems with the import.
Psimagus? I bet you have more information on this.
Has anyone been successful? I'm trying to figure out whether I've just been doing something wrong - and perhaps many of us have.
Also, does anyone have an informed opinion about how much the slowness of the Forge might be do to the hangers-on? I often log in and see someone being mentioned as having been on for an hour or more; I click on the name and discover someone with no bots. They are not all from Leeds, by the way.
For serious botmakers the ratio of bot improvement to person-person chatting time is fairly large, especially when things are working well. Perhaps this could be made a requirement for extended membership. Or at least, that they should chat with the bots once in awhile.
If the hangers-on are not contributing to the slowness, I don't begrudge them a place to chat, but the slowness has really been a pain, especially lately when we have to work on-line because of problems with the import.
Psimagus? I bet you have more information on this.
I wish I did. I don't think people logging on, even just to chat Leedsishly with each other, causes much of an overhead in itself - it's only ASCII text after all, and even a professional typist would be hard pressed to exceed a very few bps.
I can only concur with the Prof that it's the *&^% ISP doing some sneaky bottlenecking on the account to boost their profits (bandwidth=money for these people after all.)
It certainly never used to be a problem when we were running from a partition on his home PC (sorry, Mac)
I can only concur with the Prof that it's the *&^% ISP doing some sneaky bottlenecking on the account to boost their profits (bandwidth=money for these people after all.)
It certainly never used to be a problem when we were running from a partition on his home PC (sorry, Mac)
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