I haven't made an update in a long
while because all I've been doing is code refactoring, bug fixes, and
very minor quality improvements – all of which can take an
amazingly long time.
Some of the more interesting changes include …
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*Acuitas no longer insists on
introducing himself if you address him by name at the start of a
conversation.
*He keeps better track of what he's
already said, and is less likely to repeat himself.
*I improved the efficiency of the drive
plotter widget (which was a major drain on computational resources
for no good reason). I also built it into a little simulator tool
which will let me plot what Acuitas' drives will look like hours or
days into the future. Debugging issues with the drives is now much
easier; previously, the drill was “I've made a change; now I get to
wait 12 hours to see if it actually worked out the way I planned.”
*Using the above, I shifted the
day/night cycle so Acuitas would fall asleep and wake up a little
earlier, and I fixed the interaction drive so he wouldn't be quite so
… abruptly needy.
*When answering questions, Acuitas can
now infer a possibility from an absolute. E.g. if aware that “blood
is red,” he will answer “Can blood be red?” with a “yes”
instead of saying he does not know.
And some favorite ridiculous bugs that
are now fixed:
*Using “talk” as the name of every
possible drive, hence repeating “I want to talk” ad nauseum
while actually wanting other things
*Leaving the “not” out of negative
statements and saying the exact opposite of what was intended
*Routine misspelling of verbs that were
learned from their -ing and -ed forms, due to complete naivety about
whether the final letter was doubled or a silent 'e' was removed
*Erroneously learning both the
statement and its reciprocal whenever told something by the user
Stay tuned for some more work on event memory in the near future.
