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.
These are improvements indeed!
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