Sam and the Womp: Bom Bom

Yesterday I squared the end of the leftover purple canvas, sewed and pinked the ends, and set it to soak. I’ll be using it for piping. At work I finished fixing the broken tests, then started exploring the SPARQL->SQL converter I’d picked out. After an arduous journey getting it to compile (maven, of course) and picking at the benchmark scripts to try and figure out the API (because no docs) I wrote an email to the first author with some more targeted questions. It bounced, so I dug around some more on the github wiki, and found some slides from a talk. Turns out, it’s not so much a converter as a SQL schema for storing RDF, for which they have an efficient planner for doing the SPARQL conversion. So, not appropriate for our application, where our SQL schema is fixed and not remotely compatible with theirs. Bummer. My options now are to find another converter (there are two more papers I found, but neither of them have published code so I’d have to implement them myself) or back up a step and write a thing in SEMPRE to convert the formulas directly to SQL without the middleman. Booo.

My headphones finally gave up, so I bought new ones, but the CMU store isn’t stocking my favorites anymore and the alternates I tried both hurt my ears and have terrible top output.

Home, dinner, trash, crossword, Elementary, snack, sleep.

Still reading Liar’s Oath; she’s really leaning in hard on this guy being a liar at heart.