AI plays NetHack, runs into long-forgotten lunar code

I dimly remembered that NetHack had this feature, although I never played it much; where modern immersive games track the sun and weather (PokemonGo, for one) back in the days of VT100 we had more blunt easter eggs for addicted players…

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So here's a story of, by far, the weirdest bug I've encountered in my CS career.

Along with @maciejwolczyk we've been training a neural network that learns how to play NetHack, an old roguelike game, that looks like in the screenshot. Recenlty, something unexpected happened. pic.twitter.com/AFTgRm1gtv

— Bart?omiej Cupia? (@CupiaBart) May 24, 2024

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