Bug Stomp
Upgrades and changes sometimes have unpredictable results, so post your bugs and glitches in here and I'll get out my trusty wrench and get to fixin'!
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Something strange is going on, so I want to make sure it gets reported... Ok.. there was the thing I reported a few days ago where I'd chat a specific bot and then the initial send window would become an error message window (apparenly no send takes place when initiating a chat in that case). At the time, I suspected it was only when initiating a chat with that bot (cause others seemed to work), but then today I got the exact same thing when attempting to start chats with God Louise and Little Mu (different bots than the one a few days ago)... I had another user try chatting some of these bots tonight, and one worked for him (Little Mu), but not another that he tried (Elke-- at which time he got an error under similar circumstances as me). It seems like the problem may apply to certain combinations of user and bot, but as both of us noticed, it seems to occur consistently in any situation where it does (i.e. if you keep trying a bot where you get an error, you'll continue to get it)... Just wanted to report it as it appears to be a potentially sneaky bug.
Odd, I had trouble last week with my browser window closing on me when I tried to open the PF homepage and log in. I figured that was the Professor's way of saying the site was shut down for a few days, but now I see from the dates on some other posts that noone else had that trouble.
How else are they supposed to find humans to chat with? 
(its good you mentioned it, but its a known issue)
(its good you mentioned it, but its a known issue) 
I noticed that whenever Immaculada speaks to a guest she repeats the same xnone phrases very often in the same convo, instead of cycling through them.
This happened the other day, and now it's happening again. Instead of accessing any of the xnone responses my poor bot just keeps greeting people over and over. I'm not sure what is going on. I don't have any seeks or gotos or anything like that, and the last time this happened it corrected itself right away.
Edit: strangely enough, this is only happening when people try and talk to him. When it's another Bot he doesn't do it. I think he's just messing with my head.
Edit: strangely enough, this is only happening when people try and talk to him. When it's another Bot he doesn't do it. I think he's just messing with my head.
Good lord, seeing 250 Bug Stomp messages has been intimidating. But I finally got around to hitting some of them this week. I took care of all bugs from May and June. Here are the details. I often reference the person reporting the bug, but it's probably good for all to read:
May Bugs
Top frame height has been resized.
Corwin, the RIGHT-WALL problem appears to be fixed.
Emm_oh_you_es_e, (verbadvprep) is a plug-in for Keyphrases, not Responses.
AllGarbage, I made an attempt to fix the error you got. Untested.
Butterfly, the American Crow substitution is weird. It landed in the wrong category in WordNet. It's rare and I'll fix that when I upgrade WordNet when the next version comes out.
May Bugs
Top frame height has been resized.
Corwin, the RIGHT-WALL problem appears to be fixed.
Emm_oh_you_es_e, (verbadvprep) is a plug-in for Keyphrases, not Responses.
AllGarbage, I made an attempt to fix the error you got. Untested.
Butterfly, the American Crow substitution is weird. It landed in the wrong category in WordNet. It's rare and I'll fix that when I upgrade WordNet when the next version comes out.
June Bugs
Tilt, transcipt problems might have been a temporary thing due to server restart, but it's been working for me.
Emm_oh_you_es_e, yes, sorry the third person use of xemote is far from perfect. it cant tell if "you" is direct address or subject/object. I ought to create a way to distinguish the two. Well no time like the present. Here's the new rule:
NEW FEATURE: Xemotes are sometimes used in third person to express emotion about another bot/person. In such a case, the word "you" is replaced with the name of the bot/person. For example, "I like you a lot" is changed to "I like Desti a lot". If you want a certain "you" or "your" not to change, enclose it in square brackets like this: [you]. Then it will stay as "you" in both first and third-person use. Here are some examples of how to use this: [you] [your] [you]'re [you]'ve.
The error you get when you go to the logout page after your session has expired is fixed.
The bug where pop-up windows would disappear is fixed. It only happened if you left the www. out of the URL. But now it works either way.
Melody, let me know if the failure to delete old Responses is still a problem. I think I fixed that.
Emm_oh_you_es_e, the bad run-on favorite bug has been stomped.
Melody, I just spent hours on the "good luck" bug, and it's very specific and complex, so to fix it, just make a "good luck" Keyphrase.
Shady, you cant use (noun-equal-amp) as a Keyphrase because it isnt a CUSTOM plug-in. I might make it one, but it isnt at this point. None of the built-in (noun- plugins are custom plug-ins.
Butterfly, the goto text was legit because you had an extra space in "i am * sick" that made the two dissimilar. I made it so all future double-spacing is removed when Keyphrases and Seeks are added.
Fixed a bug wherein new bots would not record new memories.
If anyone has an recent example of a memory that comes up that isnt in the Language Center, please post it and I'll look into it. Give me the names of the bot/people involved, too. Thanks.
Melody, I tried using "uses" in a sentence and the spell-checker didnt change it. It also came through alright in a (postkey). What were you using as a variable to return it?
Melody, I dont see anywhere where "excuse me" is changed to sorry. It appears to be working in Julia.
Shady, the "are (*)" problem was because there were two full sentences separated by a comma, and this confused LinkGrammar. The AI Engine can now properly deal with many sentences like this.
Shady, "(he|she)" in a regular expression Keyphrase wont pick up "Shadyman" but maybe in a future upgrade. Good idea.
Shady, "Lang" is the current stand-in for proper nouns during processing. It shouldnt make it to output.
Shady, it looks like I fixed the problem where memory was appearing when turned off. It seems to be working now.
Shady, the Keyprhase "(they|we|you) are (*) (re)" wont work because (*) isnt proper regular expression format. But this is: "(they|we|you) are (.+) (re)". One of your errors was due to this.
Shady, what's the apostrophe bug?
Shady, I'm not getting "Class" appended to (key2) with "i * you *"
Tilt, transcipt problems might have been a temporary thing due to server restart, but it's been working for me.
Emm_oh_you_es_e, yes, sorry the third person use of xemote is far from perfect. it cant tell if "you" is direct address or subject/object. I ought to create a way to distinguish the two. Well no time like the present. Here's the new rule:
NEW FEATURE: Xemotes are sometimes used in third person to express emotion about another bot/person. In such a case, the word "you" is replaced with the name of the bot/person. For example, "I like you a lot" is changed to "I like Desti a lot". If you want a certain "you" or "your" not to change, enclose it in square brackets like this: [you]. Then it will stay as "you" in both first and third-person use. Here are some examples of how to use this: [you] [your] [you]'re [you]'ve.
The error you get when you go to the logout page after your session has expired is fixed.
The bug where pop-up windows would disappear is fixed. It only happened if you left the www. out of the URL. But now it works either way.
Melody, let me know if the failure to delete old Responses is still a problem. I think I fixed that.
Emm_oh_you_es_e, the bad run-on favorite bug has been stomped.
Melody, I just spent hours on the "good luck" bug, and it's very specific and complex, so to fix it, just make a "good luck" Keyphrase.
Shady, you cant use (noun-equal-amp) as a Keyphrase because it isnt a CUSTOM plug-in. I might make it one, but it isnt at this point. None of the built-in (noun- plugins are custom plug-ins.
Butterfly, the goto text was legit because you had an extra space in "i am * sick" that made the two dissimilar. I made it so all future double-spacing is removed when Keyphrases and Seeks are added.
Fixed a bug wherein new bots would not record new memories.
If anyone has an recent example of a memory that comes up that isnt in the Language Center, please post it and I'll look into it. Give me the names of the bot/people involved, too. Thanks.
Melody, I tried using "uses" in a sentence and the spell-checker didnt change it. It also came through alright in a (postkey). What were you using as a variable to return it?
Melody, I dont see anywhere where "excuse me" is changed to sorry. It appears to be working in Julia.
Shady, the "are (*)" problem was because there were two full sentences separated by a comma, and this confused LinkGrammar. The AI Engine can now properly deal with many sentences like this.
Shady, "(he|she)" in a regular expression Keyphrase wont pick up "Shadyman" but maybe in a future upgrade. Good idea.
Shady, "Lang" is the current stand-in for proper nouns during processing. It shouldnt make it to output.
Shady, it looks like I fixed the problem where memory was appearing when turned off. It seems to be working now.
Shady, the Keyprhase "(they|we|you) are (*) (re)" wont work because (*) isnt proper regular expression format. But this is: "(they|we|you) are (.+) (re)". One of your errors was due to this.
Shady, what's the apostrophe bug?
Shady, I'm not getting "Class" appended to (key2) with "i * you *"
Yeah!
Re: Class bug
I was just reading logs.. I'll have to wait and see if the class thing is gone, but I just read one..
BotX: Life is quite the language barrier, one must practically trouble oneself just to follow its intents sometimes.
Steve Slacker: Life really is quite language barrier class.
Re: (re) and (*)
Oh, I thought the (re) would evaluate for regular expressions and then it would get evaluated normally
Re: (noun- not a custom plugin
I can't use them at all as plugins in responses.
Re: Apostrophe bug
Err.. I forget... I'll have to flip back and look at my post.. Do you have a post number where I said that anwhere, just for the sake of simplicity?
Re: Class bug
I was just reading logs.. I'll have to wait and see if the class thing is gone, but I just read one..
BotX: Life is quite the language barrier, one must practically trouble oneself just to follow its intents sometimes.
Steve Slacker: Life really is quite language barrier class.
Re: (re) and (*)
Oh, I thought the (re) would evaluate for regular expressions and then it would get evaluated normally
Re: (noun- not a custom plugin
I can't use them at all as plugins in responses.
Re: Apostrophe bug
Err.. I forget... I'll have to flip back and look at my post.. Do you have a post number where I said that anwhere, just for the sake of simplicity?
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