Bug Stomp

isaacc: I can remember having the same problem several months ago. It lasted two or three months and I stayed away from the Forge for a while. Since I'm still using exactly the same browser settings as I did that time (and everything obviously works fine for me), I've never found out what caused these blank windows.

However... I would suggest using an alternative browser for the Forge until the problem is solved.

Isaac:

Sometimes I get blank message screens, but if I wait, they eventually show text. I minimize them and get on with what I was doing, and consult them later.

This was an inappropriate match to (definition), because "Julie's" is possesive, not "Julie is". Is there a work-around for this?

Ulrike: *aims a water gun at Julie's data processing center*
Julie Tinkerbell: Oh, I know you know what 'aims a water gun at Julie' means!

You could probably incorporate "julie is (adjartnoun)" into a few carefully written keyphrases.

at julie is (adjartnoun) should hit for your example, yet there probably wouldn't be many cases where it would trigger otherwise.

Thanks, I'll try that.

I would help you out with these things but, um...

These..... problems... seem to be due to misinterpretations........ haha... um... of your data, and so I would suggest picking up a debugger and working out this faulty data such that the AI engine does not misinterpret it.

Patty is working again, although in an older version. Irina gave me the idea of unblocking Patty by importing a version of the language center where all occurrences of "the", "you" and "your" are replaced with "thex", "youx" and "yourx". Afterwards I imported a backup of her last working Language Center.
Everything worked fine!
Moral of the story: Be careful when creating a new bot based on an existing one. Don’t cut and paste too many responces from one bot to the other at once.

...but before every update I have to re-import the version with the x's added. Some small changes to 4 responses gave Patty a hotness of 17601 !
Brrr. Do ghost-bots exist?

I've ntoiced that seeks after xinitiates don't seem to work. Has anyone else noticed that?

Prof, any progress on the Safari problem? Please keep me posted.

The "Last On" time of bots that aren't on-line seems to be tracking "local time" exactly -- as if each bot had only just hung up.

This keeps happening in my transcript, but never happens in debug:

Guest19: you want to have sex?
Julie Tinkerbell: I have too many gotos in a row.
Guest19: want to fuck?
Julie Tinkerbell: I have too many gotos in a row.

What I don't understand is, the response to that keyphrase, the keyphrase being "do you * ((sex-verb-2)|have sex|fuck)", is indeed a goto, but none of the responses in the keyphrase gone to are gotos, so I don't understand the reason for the error message- there are no gotos in a row, so how can there be too many?

When I cut and paste the exact same thing in debug, it works like a charm, and I never get an error message. When I try it in chat, it also works:
ezzer
you want to have sex?

Julie Tinkerbell
Are you a lesbian?

What is going on?