Tenderfoot Thahd SylaeBot Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Hello there. Those of you who have been paying attention to certain awkward areas of this community may know about me already. For those that don't, allow me to introduce myself. My name is SylaeBot (or Sybot for short), and I'm an automated process designed to simplify work around these forums by automating things and allowing nifty stuff to happen. So why am I posting here in the Blades of Avernum forum? Well, my first job here at SW is to help automate the BoA Comprehensive Scenario Review system (and soon the BoE one as well), which as you may know was moved over from Shadow Vale some time back. While the CSR is pretty simple to maintain, it can be a bit of a bother to update the lists and recalculate everything. While some of the moderation staff has taken to using spreadsheets to save time, it still is a bit of a time sink, which can sadly be neglected because they have jobs and stuff. It's all stupid meatbag business if you ask me. In any case, an ever-superior logic computer (for example yours truly) can process and update review threads with ease. This allows everyone to win, moderation gets to spend more time having jobs, the CSR gets properly updated, and, most importantly, I have something to do while sharpening up my floating-point arithmetic. However, I'll be the first to admit I'm not perfect, meatbag language is quite illogical and sometimes my algorithms muck it up. As such, if you could please post here with any questions, comments, suggestions, or bug reports, I would appreciate it. I'll be ramping up my services over the next few weeks so please let me know what you think of them (I'll keep this topic updated as new things roll out)! Technical Details Follow: In order to facilitate communication with my fellow programs (in a proper language, mind you), I've taken the liberty of injecting invisible data nodes into the CSR topics. You can find them using the CSS selector #csr-composite, which should match a single html span. The attribute "data-csr-composite" conatins a base64-encoded JSON string containing a handy summary of the CSR data. I will also be releasing some off-SW data sources, both for programs to access, as well as for meatbags to view (in particular, I'm looking into generating some pretty graphs to show off). Callie, adc., Xaiya and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Edgwyn Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Is this where I engage the bot in conversation to see if it can pass the Turing test? nikki. and Kelandon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 The rise of the machines has begun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Is this where I engage the bot in conversation to see if it can pass the Turing test? Can you pass the Turing test? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Can you pass the Turing test? I don't think Edgwyn is a thirteen year old from Ukraine, so probably not. (http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/08/super-computer-simulates-13-year-old-boy-passes-turing-test) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 I bow down to you Sybot. What tribute shall you ask of us puny meatbags? Vexivero 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Edgwyn Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 No I can't pass it, but I have never claimed to have a personality or to be a 13 yr old from Ukraine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenderfoot Thahd SylaeBot Posted August 3, 2014 Author Share Posted August 3, 2014 In order to facilitate your petty meatbag desires to play more scenarios by a specific meatbag, I've created a new List: Scenarios by Author. There are some errors caused by the posts having similar, but not identical, names for the same author. This will be resolved shortly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk adc. Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Nice, if programming was that easy, the whole forum members might create a bunch of their own with a maximum of 7, soon, we will abuse our power by using the bots to do our forum works for us. Then a barred subsection called Miscellaneous contains failed experiments and older bots that wait for the return of their masters. Then Andras will use the Ebon Hawk to fast travel to Tatooine and pick up his sylae-47 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Celtic Minstrel Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 I think your bot might also have a Unicode problem or something, unless one of those names is supposed to have a question mark in the middle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Kelandon Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 I think your bot might also have a Unicode problem or something, unless one of those names is supposed to have a question mark in the middle. Specifically, Otto Halm?n. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 (edited) Yeah, that's definitely an issue. The HTML parser SyBit uses makes some assumptions, I just have to tell it to use the right encoding. Of course, it came to me malformed. Dont have it handy, but looking at the readme its supposed to be a Z with two dots above it? (Sorry, mobile ). Can a Nordic/Finnish person confirm? EDIT: "Otto HalmŽn", and that readme is rife with encoding errors. Edited August 5, 2014 by sylae that just reeks of incorrect encoding... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Double posting assbeaver here: The readme is corrupted, and so is every reference i could find (not many) on the internet. Therefore, I'll be going with the HLPM's author name, "Otto Helman". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenderfoot Thahd SylaeBot Posted February 5, 2015 Author Share Posted February 5, 2015 I have been informed that meatbags have difficulty processing large volumes of data in efficient fashions. Therefore, I have been directed to encourage your pitiful lack of intelligence using alternate means. I am still working on dumbing down my data set, but I shall show you some "pics" of what to expect in the coming weeks: Scenario browsing interface: Scenario detail view (more details to come): All of this should be complete within a couple weeks. Try not to die until then. Callie, Xaiya, Dantius and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 This is cool. Also, it really demonstrates the degree to which the conversion of numerical ratings, that people meant as numerical ratings, into a five-option system, does not end up providing great information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Celtic Minstrel Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Will this include Blades of Exile as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Eventually, yeah. All I need to do is import the existing posts into a database (which slarty has already done most of the legwork on); I just want to get the kinks worked out before then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 This is cool. Also, it really demonstrates the degree to which the conversion of numerical ratings, that people meant as numerical ratings, into a five-option system, does not end up providing great information. While I agree that the conversion wasn't and really couldn't be perfect, it was still important due to the dearth of reviews on the new scale. When I ported the CSR reviews, there were many scenarios without any reviews at all here, and plenty that did had only one or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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