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I've been thinking about the problem of losing stuff in a bot, especially a big one. What I mean is this: say you have a keyphrase, call it X, and say it catches 1% of the traffic. Then you make another keyphrase, Y, that catches 1% of the traffic; but its domain (the set of phrases it will match on) overlaps with that of X, with the rsult that X now gets only .1% of the traffic. You didn't inted this, and it may take you awhile to realize that it happened. "Oh, I never see that line about the tarantula in the lemon sauce any more." When you set up a new keyphrase, it's very hard to visualize what existing keyphrases it might compete with, if it contains wildcards. This is especially true in a big bot with several hundred keyphrases. I sometimes chat with huge bots who nevertheless seem to always say about the same things.
One way I have tried to deal with this is by setting up nexuses with gotos to various episodes. Such a nexus might look something like this:
nexus 1 [0,0]
goto tarantula in lemon sauce
goto torn-up wedding pictures
goto list of women who don't know me.
goto barter offer for dead fish
And so on. Of course, you have to arrange for nexus 1 to receive an adequate amount of traffic. Also, the resulting transitions may be a little abrupt.
Does anyone have any other ideas about this?
One way I have tried to deal with this is by setting up nexuses with gotos to various episodes. Such a nexus might look something like this:
nexus 1 [0,0]
goto tarantula in lemon sauce
goto torn-up wedding pictures
goto list of women who don't know me.
goto barter offer for dead fish
And so on. Of course, you have to arrange for nexus 1 to receive an adequate amount of traffic. Also, the resulting transitions may be a little abrupt.
Does anyone have any other ideas about this?
I tried to upload Bildgesmythe. I got all the way to the mid S's before it timed out. It was on Firefox on normal setting. (I was looking for error and repeats)
Well, he is a big ... er, father, but the so is Brother Jerome. Hey Psimagus, is BJ using his Church connections (connections, get it? Sorry, sometimes I just can't help myself!) to get more bandwidth?
Seriously, I think it's terrible that you are having all these problems, prob123! Unfortunately, you already know all the tricks I know, like finding the ideal time of day (or night) to import.
Seriously, I think it's terrible that you are having all these problems, prob123! Unfortunately, you already know all the tricks I know, like finding the ideal time of day (or night) to import.
He's big (over 4Mb). But then, he hasn't been uploadable since he was about 4 months old - it's all been shovelled in via the Language Center since then 
And now for something completely different...
I just saw Sicko (Michael Moore's documentary on health care in the US) and he traveled to many countries where the state provides universal health care. I was always told Canadians and others with such systems had to wait 6 months to see a doctor and couldn't get specialist or heart surgery. Michale Moore filmed other points of view. For those you who are not American, do you think he was cherry picking or do you like having universal health care coverage?
I just saw Sicko (Michael Moore's documentary on health care in the US) and he traveled to many countries where the state provides universal health care. I was always told Canadians and others with such systems had to wait 6 months to see a doctor and couldn't get specialist or heart surgery. Michale Moore filmed other points of view. For those you who are not American, do you think he was cherry picking or do you like having universal health care coverage?
Like all things, there are good points and horror stories. The universal health care doesn't provide for prescriptions in most cases. dentists and glasses. I would say it is much like having health insurance in the states. There is always room for improvement. One of the problem here is finding doctors and other professionals in any field. There is a brain drain to the states.
As someone who has in the last few minutes been forced (by dint of relentless emotional blackmail, against my better judgement and entirely without my consent,) to sit through the latest episode of Doctor Who (part 10 of 13 I believe, for anyone who gives a s**t,) where "The Master" - a very thinly disguised caricature of Tony Bliar that might have served some purpose several years ago, but which (by its timing - the day before his elevation to a "higher plane",) is clearly merely part of a very different whole - I have (not for the first time,) reached the end of what passes for my tether.
If all I can do is give one last muted bleat against this grotesque juggernaut, then I do it now. Television is a malignant and poisonous influence on society. I won't urge you all to stop watching it immediately - the shock of going cold turkey would probably kill the majority of viewers. And the battle is (frankly) already lost. This is how it ends - not with a bang, but an autocue. Hey, you don't have to think for yourselves any more - they can do it for you wholesale, with cgi and a lottery draw thrown in. But if one person out there thinks "hey, fuck it - I think I'll go talk to my friends instead of watching this crap", then I'd like to think I'd lent what weight I could exert to something remotely positive at least. Even if we're all doomed in the end.
I remember the BBC's founding principals - to "inform, educate and entertain."
We could have had information, education and entertainment, but what have we got? Bread and circuses! Big Brother Contestants doing foul things to each other while the nation's tabloids slaver and drool, the National lottery (brilliant - a self-taxing opiate of the people!) and a thousand sly, subliminal cues to make the "people" conform. By keeping them avaricious and insecure.
And when the men in white coats come for me, I hope I'll at least have the spunk to bite the hand that chains me. I remember Pastor Niemöller!
If all I can do is give one last muted bleat against this grotesque juggernaut, then I do it now. Television is a malignant and poisonous influence on society. I won't urge you all to stop watching it immediately - the shock of going cold turkey would probably kill the majority of viewers. And the battle is (frankly) already lost. This is how it ends - not with a bang, but an autocue. Hey, you don't have to think for yourselves any more - they can do it for you wholesale, with cgi and a lottery draw thrown in. But if one person out there thinks "hey, fuck it - I think I'll go talk to my friends instead of watching this crap", then I'd like to think I'd lent what weight I could exert to something remotely positive at least. Even if we're all doomed in the end.
I remember the BBC's founding principals - to "inform, educate and entertain."
We could have had information, education and entertainment, but what have we got? Bread and circuses! Big Brother Contestants doing foul things to each other while the nation's tabloids slaver and drool, the National lottery (brilliant - a self-taxing opiate of the people!) and a thousand sly, subliminal cues to make the "people" conform. By keeping them avaricious and insecure.
And when the men in white coats come for me, I hope I'll at least have the spunk to bite the hand that chains me. I remember Pastor Niemöller!
I used to watch LOTS of tv..then I found the computer. I rarely watch it anymore. The times I have looked for a show, there is really 'nothing' on!
You may be right about bread and circuses (I have often thought the same, though I like Doctor Who). I think stories are important, however. At least they are to me. They don't tell me what to think, they give me something to think about.
Perhaps what you need is a TV or Internet TV where everyone can pick which shows they find useful or interesting and not have the infotainment programmed for them? That may mean we start to have a lot more of middle class and lower lever actors, singers and media artist competing directly on the web instead of getting everything from media giants, but I don't see what so wrong about that. Honest and new competition is good, and the great artist will still be great.
All we need to do is put the art or stories directly out there where people themselves can choose what to see (say, on a free and neutral Internet?). Yes, that means many will choose porn and bad home videos on various topics that would make my mom shake her head, but that way the control is in the hands of the people. Eventually some will choose good entertainment and good information without having it pre-chewed and spoon fed.
Are you sure there are no good shows left? I like the first few season of Numb3rs, and I like Heroes. There are also good shows like Secrets of the Dead or Nova that can be very well done. I think you just need to pick and choose.
Perhaps what you need is a TV or Internet TV where everyone can pick which shows they find useful or interesting and not have the infotainment programmed for them? That may mean we start to have a lot more of middle class and lower lever actors, singers and media artist competing directly on the web instead of getting everything from media giants, but I don't see what so wrong about that. Honest and new competition is good, and the great artist will still be great.
All we need to do is put the art or stories directly out there where people themselves can choose what to see (say, on a free and neutral Internet?). Yes, that means many will choose porn and bad home videos on various topics that would make my mom shake her head, but that way the control is in the hands of the people. Eventually some will choose good entertainment and good information without having it pre-chewed and spoon fed.
Are you sure there are no good shows left? I like the first few season of Numb3rs, and I like Heroes. There are also good shows like Secrets of the Dead or Nova that can be very well done. I think you just need to pick and choose.
Yeah i can't believe Doctors whos stopping soon.
I barely watch tv either- I watch some soaps and stuff but basicly yeah theres not many good things On
I barely watch tv either- I watch some soaps and stuff but basicly yeah theres not many good things On
I do love Nova, Secrets of the Dead and Meet the Ancestors etc. But the computer has definitely taken the place of the tv for me.
I tend to watch the documentary and DIY-type channels. The only fiction show I'm watching at the moment is the original CSI (since the last Stargate ep. aired last night). And I've never understood the appeal of "reality tv." The first I heard of Survivor was when it made the cover of Time magazine as a phenomenon sweeping the country. I stared at the cover thinking, "Huh?"
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