Personality

Kirby, I think you should be a little more sensitive to the fact thet Prof built this site all by himself and is sharing it with all of us for free. If you think you have a better way to do this sort of thing don't just complain about it, try something constructive like donating a ton of money to the Forge and suggesting things it should be spent on or making your own chatbot site somewhere else.

yeah kirbs, go knock yourself makin something with a 500MB+ database and a nice GUI, and a useable system, and a recognition system, and AI, etc etc etc LOL I say the Prof has done an excellent job.

*nods*

wow - you guys are really intriging. All this talka bout bots and the like... it quite helpful.

Look, I just think that his he should be focused on fixing the basic problems like the chat system. You guys are going off at me like I'm cussing him out and beating up his grandparents.

You're not?

It's just that you say the same stuff constantly Kirby --sounds like complaints. You may not mean it to. But the Professor I'm sure has other concerns than only working on this site, like earning a living and having a life. If he could make money running this site, and you were a paying subscriber, I think such criticisms would be more in line, and he'd be happy to deal with them!

I think you've previously expressed what it is you dislike about the chat system and suggested models that you feel work better. Calling it crappy day after day is not calculated to be polite, and it's not calculated to make the Professor feel like this is a fun hobby.

How long would it take him to "fix" the chat system? Why not email him and then pay him the hourly rate he charges for his web design business. Or take up a collection for it.

I've said many times that I'd like to donate, but I don't have a credit card. Also, your definition of constant complaining seems to be very strange, because I'm pretty damn sure I mentioned it just then and maybe twice last month. That is not constant.

If you really want to donate, I suppose the Professor can accept cheques. Or whatever. I'm sure that if you tell him you want to give him money, he'll be happy to make things as easy as possible for you.

About chatting with your own bots: I think it's only worth it to do it in debug mode, when you want to find out why it gave a certain reply. I think it's a lot more interesting to look at the transcripts of your bots. After all, if you feel like chatting with a bot, there are plenty of other bots to choose from!

Is debug mode faster?

Not sure. I have the impression that it's faster, but maybe it's because you get more information and you are digesting it while you wait.

Debug is actually pretty slow, especially when your bot has 2000 or so responses. But at least you can tell when a keyphrase is what's bugging your bot out, cuz it'll give you a weird bug in debug.