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I have too many of these to count.
Also the project that I got a huge bonus on for saving like 30k a month. 4 years after I left said company, program is no longer being used.
But one little stupid search utility for a college that I wrote 20 years ago. Still going strong.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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I have a biological computer, my brain, which has delayed recall. When I try to pull up a piece of information, like a name or a word, it won't come to the surface.
The harder I push, the longer it takes. And then, while I am thinking about something else, it pops up. My neurologist tells me this is a natural result of growing older.
Are you over 40? Oh, why did I just ask you that? 
Ed
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Don’t worry, Eddie.
You will remember why you asked in a day or two.
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our brains are shrinking. natural process
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I thought that CHATGBT was just a more inclusive variation of LGBT.
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In the past I did not make notes how many games the pc won or not.
Just tried to fix all known issues...
My thoughts were that the programmed rules (if statements and queries) let the pc play normally good but in some special cases it makes mistakes like a beginner.
Today I added 3 or 4 code lines to track it - and to my big surprise the result is that I can be happy to win 50 ... 55 % of the games (as winning solo player or as member of the winning team).
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I have written a couple of games wherein the computer may play.
One of them has two strategies -- a "safe strategy" and an "aggressive strategy" -- I have notice that the "aggressive strategy" wins more frequently than the "safe strategy".
In the other, like Data playing Strategema, the computer will play for a draw in some cases.
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Back in the days of FidoNet when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I wrote a dice game for BBS's called Greedy* -- my friends and I called the real game either Greedy or 9-Dice -- in which a player would play against the computer opponent. I programmed it to play an average player's game in it's decision tree, and the random dice throws were calculated by the same routine for both the computer and the human.
Quite often in a game, whether with real dice or in my app, you might have to decide if you wanted to risk throwing the remaining dice and lose any points you had racked up that round or take the points and pass the dice. Kind of like Blackjack where you're sitting on 15 or 16 but the dealer is showing an ace or face card. Do you draw or call?
Anyway, that decision for the computer was also randomized, and yet I was always surprised how often the computer would be way behind, the player is close to winning (which did increase the weight of that decision toward risking it), and when it decided to go with the risk it rolls enough points to come from behind and win. I did not program it that way, though I had a few ask people me if I did. 
- almost identical to a game called Farkl that you can play on Facebook--I did not write that one
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Have you set it up so you can have the computer play itself with replay of any randomized values?
That is a good way to see how tweaks in your rules will change the outcomes.
Keep each rule package as a separate, versioned component.
You can then randomize or choose which rule package is active.
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Not at the moment - will look if I can get the computer play itself with replay of randomized values.
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Quote: In previous Associated Press stories, the leaker was identified as “the O.G.” by a member of the online chat group
US: Billing records helped ID suspect in military docs leak
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I was waiting for someone to make that connection - I assumed it would be the CIA, but ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Here at CP we know you got framed by Dij.
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My first though was that "AI" might try to make a connection ... as in who is so-and-so. (It's all in the training data).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Are you sure they haven't?
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Maybe he was just one of your many fans....
ed
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: “the O.G.”
...Opera Ghost?
...One God?
...Old Guy?
...Old Git?
Or, bearing in mind the (recent) wokeness of the US army:
...Old Gorgeous!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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office general
just a guess
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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"Old Geezer?" Surely it wasn't the president. 
And it wasn't me, though I qualify. As an old geezer, not the president.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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What I have heard is that the NY Times and the Washington Post helped identify the "leaker." But that's not the real story. There are two parts to this. The first is how did a 21 NG have access to top secret compartmentalized material? I've worked with classified documents in the past, and you just don't walk up to the safe room and grab whatever you want.
The second issue and more damning in my opinion, is that Old Joe and company are in full damage control mode - determining the authenticity? Get real. Revelations of US and British service members in active combat against Russians? Ukrainian generals skimming off the top of the money being provided? It just goes on. Makes me wonder how far this will go.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: I've worked with classified documents in the past, and you just don't walk up to the safe room and grab whatever you want.
The past probably didn't include as many electronic documents, which from what I have seen reported, was what was happening.
Standard problem everywhere computers are used. Companies don't like it known that the vast majority of data breeches occur from the inside. When you need someone to have all the keys so they can fix everything that breaks then of course that person (or persons) is still susceptible to all of the random quirks and impulses that any other human is.
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I know a lot of secure places started epoxying the usb ports. In any event, he either managed to get ahold of them due to carelessness, or someone gave him the files. I don't know. That form they made me sign made it very clear that you could go to jail for just being careless.
Update
I know way back in the 80s the DOD was very interested in secure operating systems. The idea was that based on your user id, you would have access to appropriate information. They had some sort of nomenclature for the definitions. The idea was to associate a security tag to a specific account, and that tag would allow you to access specific information you were allowed to access. What the DOD wanted is an OS that was absolutely hack proof and kept the users properly contained. Time moves on... with the advent of the PC everything came off the rails. Near as I can tell, and I really have no new knowledge, they isolate data by networks and isolated systems. I hope they do.
The part that rankles me is that there are different flavors of classified data. Systems data might be important. Analyst data that could be tracked back to assets, hugely important. What I've read is that this guy was a bozo, and other bozos shared the info.
Still begs the question - how did he get it?
Anyway
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
modified 18-Apr-23 17:27pm.
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I just tried to get a copy of a government letter (I'm after applying for a Blue Badge for Herself, and need a letter they sent some ten years ago for proof of entitlement) and it's a free phone number 0800 ...
But it's a Friday arvo, so after a 5 level "press 0 for this, 1 for that" automated rejection redirection system I get the engaged tone and they cut me off.
"Sod it!" I think. "I'll try Monday morning."
So I put a reminder in google calendar: "Phone DWP re [Herself] PIP decision letter 0800 121 4433 @09:00" for Monday. And it goes in for 08:00 and throws away the rest of the message because it ignores the "@" part and assumes the phone number is a time ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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So, no Blue Badge but at least you got the Blues 
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But see, if that had been what you were trying to do, it would've saved you time by, ummm...
...not doing anything with the rest of what you typed in?
I don't know, let them justify it.
Every time software is trying to be too smart for its own good leads to undesired results. And companies like Google insist on trying too hard.
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