Here's the line where it occurs:
https://github.com/opencog/moses/blob/master/examples/example-progs/moses-ann-pole1.cc#L58

The program says that it should be invoked as
usage: moses-ann-pole1 maxevals seed
but it looks as though it actually expects to receive 6 command line arguments:
max evals, seed, stepsize, expansion, depth, reduce
https://github.com/opencog/moses/blob/master/examples/example-progs/moses-ann-pole1.cc#L58

If I try running it with 6 command line arguments, then I receive an error

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'opencog::AssertionException'
  what():   (/home/cosmo/moses/moses/comboreduct/reduct/../combo/convert_ann_combo.h:117)
Aborted (core dumped)

https://github.com/opencog/moses/blob/master/moses/comboreduct/combo/convert_ann_combo.h#L117

Any suggestions?

I can't replicate it now (not in my computer right now), but let me try
help you.
For the first error you already figure it out.

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If I try running it with 6 command line arguments, then I receive an error

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'opencog::AssertionException'
what(): (/home/cosmo/moses/moses/comboreduct/reduct/../combo/convert_ann_combo.h:117)
Aborted (core dumped)

https://github.com/opencog/moses/blob/master/moses/comboreduct/combo/convert_ann_combo.h#L117

Any suggestions?

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#26 (comment).

Thanks @ArleyRistar. For example, I tried

./moses-ann-pole1 10 1 1 2 5 1

After executing it, it freezes; and then, if you press enter, it displays that stack trace and terminates.

It should have worked, these are basically default values.
Could you try another examples?

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Thanks @ArleyRistar https://github.com/arleyristar. For example, I tried

./moses-ann-pole1 10 1 1 2 5 1

After executing it, it freezes; and then, if you press enter, it displays
that stack trace and terminates.

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#26 (comment).

Sorry for the delay, my crap hotel internet isn't helping.
So, for the line that you said, it's trying to decode a tree that is
empty...
I've changed this examples for last, but it was a simple thing and it was
working before (Linas wouldn't accept my commit if not).
Maybe tomorow I'll try to find what broke it, if Linas or Nil don't see it
first.

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It should have worked, these are basically default values.
Could you try another examples?

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Thanks @ArleyRistar https://github.com/arleyristar. For example, I
tried

./moses-ann-pole1 10 1 1 2 5 1

After executing it, it freezes; and then, if you press enter, it displays
that stack trace and terminates.

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#26 (comment).

If you guys start using the NN part, please by all means, add a unit test for it. The lack of unit test is the reason this code has gotten broken over time.

@ngeiswei Indeed; perhaps it would make sense to use one of the existing NN examples as a unit test?

@ArleyRistar The unit tests all pass. It would be great if you can try this out on your machine when you get back.

Yes indeed there is some ANN unit test. Once you understand the problem you should complete the unit test to cover that case, or as @cosmoharrigan suggests create a unit test based on the example.

Do these examples even make sense? It wasn't clear to me that the ANN examples were any good. Note also: now that the POS (particle-swarm-optimization) code is integrated, doesn't that change the motivation to use ANN's in moses? The examples should include some description as to why they are worthy.

Do these examples even make sense?

@linas In what sense? From an abstract point of view, the pole balancing/inverted pendulum problem is a classic benchmark in control theory. But, I don't know about the specifics of how these examples were implemented.

I meant "do they use moses in a way that makes sense; i.e. do they actually
demonstrate something that moses would be good at solving (as opposed to
using moses as a fancy random-number generator)"

--linas

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Do these examples even make sense?

@linas https://github.com/linas In what sense? From an abstract point
of view, the pole balancing/inverted pendulum problem is a classic
benchmark in control theory. But, I don't know about the specifics of how
these examples were implemented.

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#26 (comment).

So, I replicated the "error" here.
In these examples, you are supposed to pass the seed tree (cin >> tr, line
72), so when you press enter you are passing an empty tree, leading to this
"error".
About the usage: I don't know if moses-ann-pole1 was copied from another
example (leaving the usage with a wrong msg), but some others examples,
like moses-ann-pole2, uses maxevals, seed and the default value of 1.25,
1.5, 4 and true for the rest.
I don't know much about this part, but for the seed tree in the xor example
you could starting passing something like:
ann($I2 $I3 1 0) or
ann($N1($N2($I3 $I4 -1 1) $I3 $I4 1 -1 0.5))

So, Linas or Nil, you can close this issue, and tell Cosmo an example of
seed tree.

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I meant "do they use moses in a way that makes sense; i.e. do they actually
demonstrate something that moses would be good at solving (as opposed to
using moses as a fancy random-number generator)"

--linas

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Do these examples even make sense?

@linas https://github.com/linas In what sense? From an abstract point
of view, the pole balancing/inverted pendulum problem is a classic
benchmark in control theory. But, I don't know about the specifics of how
these examples were implemented.

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#26 (comment).

Thanks @ArleyRistar . Although before closing I think it would be better to fix this example first so that it detects the missing argument and return an informative error message.