May be one of those ancient Egyptian computer nerds attacked your machine. One of those L33T Haxirs. W00T
--- On Sat, 11/8/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [quackle] HAKIR? To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 3:33 PM 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] .com 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 > <jasonkatzbrown@ gmail.com> 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 > > > >
