#code horror

[kyousystem]

More GNU Backgammon woes

I've found and fixed two separate bugs in GNU Backgammon over the past two days, both located in the code used to calculate the inputs to the evaluation neural nets (i.e. very critical data).

They were small bugs, but fixing them made a visible change in the analysis output. I strongly suspect that, for certain difficult positions, these fixes might be enough to change what move the engine would score as the highest, even after a rollout.[1]

Do you want to know where those bugs were located in the original version of the code?

In the middle of a rat's nest of a function some 700 lines long; specifically, in obtuse sections of code completely bereft of comments and which almost exclusively used variables with names only 1 or 2 characters long. See for yourself:

Is it any wonder that subtle bugs like off-by-one errors or using the wrong one-character variable for an array index (aka the bugs in question here) were able to slip in here and remain completely undetected for God only knows how long?

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[1] Of course, now I'm wondering if the neural nets for GNU Backgammon were trained while being fed these slightly erroneous inputs, or if these bugs crept in later. I very much hope it's the latter; I don't have the know-how or computing hardware at my disposal to train new nets myself.

[shepscapades]

Surely this will have no negative consequences whatsoever!

[chloesimaginationthings]

William is the most divorced man in the FNAF universe

[duckydrawsart]

More Holloweane, inspired by this piece 🎆

Killer Track is easily my favorite episode. It's such a fun concept, and very cinematic and bittersweet :')

[mattdrawsalottathings]

Sansby Across the Multiverse!!

Finally done with this lil thing, made my fingertips numb(still numb rn) and made me stay up alot(which helps since i gotta wake up at 4 for sahur ngl)

Frame by frame babeyyyy!!!

Credits:

UnderTale by tobyfox

UnderFell by underfella/community

UnderSwap by community

HorrorTale by sour-apple-studios

UnderTrack by @ken-tfc

Code!Sans by @callmeherry

OuterTale by 2mi127

AddictedTale by Yours truly (*ゝω･*)

[infernal-lamb]

Searching your eyes for the saint is an act of futility

something that's just been on my mind recently!

[katabay]

someone’s hands have always been inside of you

[livfordoodles]

Redfields ♥️

[kalico-of-doom]

A progression of Alastor getting fluffier and grumpier about it as autumn sets in, inspired by the delightful @jayjbird94 over on Twitter

I am o b s e s s e d with this concept of him having a seasonal transformation

A bonus little doodle of Angel’s reaction to this change:

[wastedskins]

Resident Evil: Code Veronica X, 2000

[shepscapades]

Uhhhhh. Uh. Do you ever think about the fact that Welsknight is the only member of the Evil Empire that joined simply because Xisuma convinced him to, and that he’s the only one there who is never directly manipulated, controlled, or corrupted by Evil X (Android 24)? Completely unrelated thought but I wonder what it’s like to be surrounded by the people you trust most slowing becoming brainwashed, the only ‘sober’ one as you watch their familiar faces slowly become unrecognizable

Alternatively: I got possessed by my corner of the magmaboard and the incomprehensible horrors Freakin Got Me

[babacontainsmultitudes]

The first few seconds of every dndads episode: Dungeons and Daddies is RoWdY HORNy vIOLenT podcast for grownups 🤪

The last few seconds of every dndads episode:

[cheezy-whizz]

shout out to homicidal homoerotic toxic best friendships in movies, gotta be one of my favorite genders

[sofy-tofy]

Where I can buy this?!? I need it-

[anris-resurrection]

Aren't you a sight for sore EYE

[thequantumranger]

Happy Belated 25th Anniversary Code Veronica!

Released on February 3, 2000 in Japan.