Post Race!

[Peter Porter]

I believe I have close to a perfect roadmap now for a decent AI, so I can now just concentrate on just coding (until I get stuck again like two weeks ago).

[Shaggy Hiker]

Well, we have plenty of indecent AI, so a decent one would be a nice change.

[Shaggy Hiker]

How many server farms will you be buying?

[wes4dbt]

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

[Shaggy Hiker]

And not a bad day, either, while you're at it.

[wes4dbt]

Well, CA is still here. We didn't get washed away. Actually got lucky on Christmas, the sun came out when I left to go to my daughters.

Pretty quiet around here. I guess most people are enjoying a four day holiday.

[dday9]

Mais, I’m on my way to the LSU bowl game and stopped at the Buc-ee’s in Baytown and it is $1.18 a gallon for gas here.

[dday9]

I’m on my phone and VBForums won’t let me upload it, but I took a picture.

[Shaggy Hiker]

It's dropped up here, too, though not that low.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I still have a full tank from the week before Thanksgiving, though. I just don't use much gas anymore.

[dday9]

LSU lost. Naturally a missed FG by Damion Ramos, the one consistent piece of the team this year, would be the deciding factor.

[dday9]

I’m just glad this season is over.

[dday9]

I’m back at my parents house, not exactly where I grew up, but basically so, for maybe 3 minutes. I take a walk to smoke my cigar and someone tried selling me pills. I am forever grateful that I left this place.

[Shaggy Hiker]

LSU lost. Naturally a missed FG by Damion Ramos, the one consistent piece of the team this year, would be the deciding factor.

Was he consistent in making field goals or missing them? I think it was the former, but technically, based on what you wrote, it could be either one.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I think mid-market teams, like Boise State, are going to decline significantly over the next few years. With the advent of paying players, deep pocketed teams are going to hoover up the best talent, leaving just the scraps for the rest. What's your incentive to play for free when somebody else will give you five or six figures?

[Shaggy Hiker]

This winter has been a disaster, thus far. Now it's getting cold (or at least colder), but it's also become dry. The vegetation is still showing on the ski hill at 6000'. Almost every basin is far above normal for precipitation, with several being up around 150% of normal, yet none are at even 50% of normal snowpack. We need the snow in winter to provide water through the long, dry, summer. It's not looking good.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I spoke too soon. That last storm really helped out. It was warm in the southern part of the state, but colder up north. Several basins greatly improved their snowpack. Some are now even above average. I had been looking back around Christmas, which was only a few days back, but one cold storm can really turn things around.

That's an issue with a long state. Different parts see different things. We had warm and rainy, further north it was cold, so it was snowy.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Still looking pretty meagre on the ski hill, though. Tough skiing when the vegetation is sticking through the snow.

[Peter Porter]

Winter use to be insane in Bayern back in the 90s thru the early 2000s, but now it mostly snows after the new, and even then it's not much.

[Peter Porter]

It snowed a little the past couple of days, but it's all gone now.

[Peter Porter]

How many server farms will you be buying?

Depends on how generous you’re feeling. Whadaya say?

[Peter Porter]

Sometime early next year, I'll install it on a custom PC.

[Peter Porter]

I just hope the safeguards I have programmed into it will prevent it from frying my current system.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Sometime early next year, I'll install it on a custom PC.

Servers you right.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I just hope the safeguards I have programmed into it will prevent it from frying my current system.

So, your AI might turn on you right away. That would certainly be a breakthrough.

[Peter Porter]

So, your AI might turn on you right away. That would certainly be a breakthrough.

When it's ready, it wont have the ability to access or modifiy system files, open apps, read files, read data from opened apps, or have access to the internet.

[Peter Porter]

It wont learn anything harmful. Wont be taught how to code, and wont have the ability save files.

[Peter Porter]

It has safeguards in place anyway, even though it wont have the ability to do anything but read data I feed it.

[dday9]

Was he consistent in making field goals or missing them? I think it was the former, but technically, based on what you wrote, it could be either one.

The former. It is a tragic comedy in that our team has been consistently inconsistent all year except for the special teams and how fitting would it be that we lost because of a lack of defense, that was solid all year but not unexpected because of the number of opt outs for this bowl game, and a missed field goal inside of 50 yards.

[Shaggy Hiker]

It has safeguards in place anyway, even though it wont have the ability to do anything but read data I feed it.

But it WILL be able to manipulate it into feeding it more data.

[Shaggy Hiker]

You'll be creating a nefarious, though subtle, monster.

[Shaggy Hiker]

By the way, have you been practicing your Dr. Frankenstein, "It's ALIIIIIIIVE!!!" declaration?

You need to be good at that. Don't be winging it.

[dday9]

These were the players on defense who didn't play:

• Mansoor Delane (CB)
• Harold Perkins Jr. (listed as LB but really played the "star" position)
• Whit Weeks (LB)
• West Weeks (LB)
• AJ Haulcy (S)
• Jack Pyburn (DE)

[Shaggy Hiker]

Was that a case of two Weeks notice being given?

[dday9]

That was a phenomenal pun.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, it's usually a case of a person giving two weeks notice, rather than two weeks giving notice themselves.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I assume they are brothers.

[dday9]

Yeah, all three brother’s play for LSU. The oldest is graduating so it was pretty cool earlier this year to see all three play together.

[wes4dbt]

Are you so devoted to all things LSU or just football.

I never went to any of my college's football games. An interesting fact, the FB coach was Elway's dad and the last year I was there we beat Stanford with his son John at QB.

[wes4dbt]

This was surprising. Saw an article on 10 most dangerous jobs. Garbage collector was number 1.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/arti...002405344.html

In my area they don't even get out of the truck. I guess they still must pick it up by hand in other places.