It has been awhile since I have updated. My normal routine recently has me getting up in the morning about an hour or so before everyone else. During that lull in my morning is when I had started to make the entries. Recently in the morning I have been experimenting with a using AI to generate a bot that explores Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. Which is a text based dungeon exploring game that I had played in the past. My little morning hour has gone to almost entirely to that recently and also some time here and there in the evening. Getting my head stuck in a thing is someting that I do and it usually takes me a little bit of time to realize and surface out of it. This endevour has been getting more attention than it should be recently and I need to back off a bit.
The freezing weather makes it tough to do things outside, but today I need to work on the exhaust to a car we bought off some friends. They needed some money and had a car that they were not using, and we could make use of another car. We actually have quite a number of cars and almost all of them have some issue of one type or another. The case in point is a Subaru Outback which like to throw check engine lights with misfires. At the point the spark plugs, wires and O2 sensors have been replaced and the issue persists. What I believe is the problem at this time is that the catalytic converter has issues. Currently the garage is heating up so I can spend the day attempting to replace it. This should keep me busy for awhile and will ideally keep me off the computer for a decent amount of time.
crawl_navigator is a bot that I have been working on to play DCSS. My goal is primarily to learn about interacting with AI in order to develop a complex piece of code. Thus far it has been extremely interesting. I am finding I take a good number of steps forward, and then can find everything regressing. I have worked to implement documentation and testing, which seems to be helping the AI keep moving forward. I am highly considering how multiple AIs would interact. Potentially one that does the testing and another that does documentation. Giving each of them profiles that align a little bit more to that task. Additionally I wonder if having two AIs working together on the project and interacting would be beneficial. One that is more standards and code aware, while having the other being a bit more adventurous to try new things and push the bounds.