Joe--
Thanx, I wish I'd thot of that! Quackle doesn't think HAKIR is a good
word. I'm still flabbergasted at what happened, and I'm 100% sure that neither
FAKIR nor HAKIM was the word Quackle recommended.
Stu
----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph McGinley
To: [email protected]
Cc: Jason Katz-Brown
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 4:26 AM
Subject: Re: [quackle] HAKIR?
Stu,
Can you reproduce the bug? Try setting an opening rack of ?AHIKRR, and
see what choices Quackle generates.
Joe
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 13:58 -0500, John O'Laughlin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Jason Katz-Brown
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Does anybody know what's actualy going on? Stu, what Quackle version
> > are you using? olaugh, do you have any idea?
>
> I am very skeptical that there's any bug here. Several times
> throughout Quackle's history I've had it play millions of games for
> various purposes and audited the words played including hooks for
> phonies. In the early days there were some, and I caught a few bugs
> this way. But now I can run Quackle arbitrarily many selfplay games
> without any nonwords showing up in the logs.
>
> There were also previously some errors in the Collins dictionary due
> to my sloppy process of typing/scanning the hardcover CSD I got in
> London in 2005. HAKIR was never in any copy of my Collins, and the
> current cswapr07 lexicon is correct. I think that Stu probably misread
> FAKIR or HAKIM, but we'll never know for certain.
>
> Quackle does have still have plenty of bugs, but people do also
> misreport bugs, so in the future I'd encourage people to send
> screenshots# or .gcg files, since this will make sure they're taken
> 100% seriously and might provide addition information to help in
> fixing the problem.
>
> John
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