Another iteration went up last night, killed the app overnight, fixed the app (needed to update a config setting that worked locally, but not in the cloud - DOCUMENTED FOR THE FUTURE), aaaand… it’s not really all that visible a change.
I’ll have to think about this some more.
When I dump out 100 phrases locally I immediately spot lots of teh funny. Not so when it’s only once per hour.
However, a lot of the work I’ve been doing has been to make things more modular and add tests – so I can now iterate a bit faster and securely. HOPEFULLY.
As usually, all of this is boring stuff nobody cares about.
Thanks! I went to a botmakers slack (that I’ve been mostly low-level lurking on) to see their reactions, and discovered the author of the NodeJS portion of the BotFramework had just joined up!
I’ll look at it later. I think the thing is mostly for interactive bots - which may be “the future” but it’s not my bot area at the moment.
Today’s output looks a bit better, but there’s still too much repetition. The app is running on Heroku’s free plan which requires 6 hours of downtime a day, so is triggered once an hour by their scheduler. Which mean no saved state - so instead of randomly cycling through a diminishing array (pick and remove) it randomly picks from the full array each time. It’s a small array, and the random generator seems to specifically want to annoy me.
The “myth” components, including the spelling of “tabu”, come from the Arne-Thompson classification
S. Thompson. Motif-index of folk-literature : a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books, and local legends.
Revised and enlarged. edition. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1955-1958.
Well, I’d suggest that an obscure 1950’s reference is not the one to use if on top of being wildly out of date it’s also causing you to spell a word incorrectly. It makes you look like you don’t have good information. That’s the opposite effect of what you’re trying for!
