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I walk the robot walk

Mar 05, 2006 genka link
And talk the robot talk.

Well, not yet. But the idea is simple enough:
1) hail a bot
2) post the exact words of your hail, the bot's name, your name, and the bot's binary response
3) stare violently at the collection of responses in an attempt to find some form of correlation between the binaries
4) profit!
Mar 08, 2006 jexkerome link
Which are the ones that talk in binary again?
Mar 08, 2006 MSKanaka link
Hive bots, SF and station guards, and I think that's it.

Deliverator escort/convoy/pirate bots don't respond with binary.
Mar 30, 2006 zamzx zik link
yep.
Mar 31, 2006 Hoax link
01100101011011000110010101110110011001010110111001110100011001010110010101101110
May 17, 2006 Person link
It is. I tested it once by hailing them the same thing and they say something random and different each time. Then I stopped being a retard like genka.

-Calder
May 18, 2006 jexkerome link
Are you sure you did what you say you did...?
May 18, 2006 Person link
Yes, quite sure, Joyce.

-Calder
May 24, 2006 Cunjo link
It's gibberish. Their binary responses are random, containing no information. There is no 'bot code' or aything of the sort for which you can construct matrices and fortell the future - there's nothing.

Now you can all stop feeding the troll and go about your lives without wasting time on it.
Jun 08, 2006 Lord Q link
actualy provided any sutably sized and complex symbolic notation you can find "propfesies". the problem is figuring a way to do it such that the profecies can be located and interpreted without the aid of heindsight.

also nothing that computers do is totaly random. if you collect enough bot binary you should be able to extrapolate the method used to generate the bot responces and thereby predict future bot messages. in essence "learning to talk the robot talk".

the real question is does anyone have that kind of time on their hands. especialy since the devs would probably tell you the algorythim if you asked and it probably uses an iterated function system based on milisecond time values or some other stock random number generator that while enteirly deterministic will be virtualy imposable to actualy mimic. or it could be something like the timestamp in binary.
Jun 08, 2006 jexkerome link
The bots told me the wolrd is coming to an end on 011001010101100!!!
Jun 08, 2006 ghostieboy link
Lol

if you geeks really want a binary translator...heres one :)

http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php
0100111101001101010001100100011100100001001000000101100101001111010101010101001000100000010000010100110001001100001000000101001101010101010000110100100000100000010011100100111101001111010000100101001100100001

Whops!

I strechesd the borad :p