Denizens

Hello, loves! Tout le monde déteste l’IA. Working on Denizens seems interesting enough to keep me going. Let’s see what we might do. Some discussion of how we generalize here chez Ron. Despite the way I seem to program, sort of failing forward with poor ideas that then get refactored into less poor ones, I do know a bit about programming. And, in fact, I strongly suspect that if one did not know quite a bit, one would be unlikely to have (even) the level of success that I have in turning early ad hoc solutions into rather decently-designed code. One would be less able to detect poor design, less able to sense the direction of a better design, and, quite probably, one would be well short of useful approaches to the problems that arise. We are facing such a concern right now: our first Denizen of many: Buzz, the bee. When Dot first encounters Buzz, he will be feeling an intense need to pollinate something. (We’ve all been there, haven’t we?) When interacting with Dot, we want him to…