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i was thinking, "when is my next shot to get a code update to the moon so i can pwn that" and all i had to do was poop on^H^H^H open the news |
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I submit to you that, although NetHack responded to the full moon in its intended way, this quirky, very hard-to-fathom stop on a machine-learning journey was indeed a bug and a worthy one in the pantheon. It's not a Harvard moth, nor a 500-mile email, but what is? Because the team used Singularity to back up and restore their stack, they inadvertently carried forward the machine time and resulting bug each time they tried to solve it. The machine's resulting behavior was so bizarre, and seemingly based on unseen forces, that it drove a coder into fits. And the story has a beginning, a climactic middle, and a denouement that teaches us something, however obscure. The NetHack Lunar Learning Bug is, I submit, quite worth memorializing. Thank you for your time. |
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Full Moon June 21 9:07 pm Strawberry Moon Third Quarter June 28 5:53 pm |
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