Dreamt of relay race basketball

Yesterday I topstitched the zip panel, sewed and felled the side panels, and sewed and felled the front and back panels. The second couch back is now ready for piping. I’ve been reading Winter Tide by Ruthanna Emrys, a lovectaftian story set in the Cold War. I never managed to read any actual Lovecraft, but this has been quite enjoyable so far.

At work I sketched out some possibilities for a more detailed way to specify how references into the knowledge base had been parsed, as well as rough plans for mixed initiative frames and for more intelligent disambiguation. For the latter I realized what I actually needed was more data on the kinds of disambiguation we actually do, so I spent the rest of the afternoon going through a log file and coding for which candidate was selected and how ambiguous candidates differed. At the lab meeting I showed Inform7; it was a good time. Once folks got into it they all had great questions. There was some confusion about what kinds of things go in the source vs during gameplay, which makes sense given that one of the primary LIA activities as an end user is teaching it about things in the world. Implementing what would amount to an inform7 parser in inform7 might be amusing; hooking something up so you could pull common sense reasoning consequences out of COMET instead of having to code them manually would be similarly so.

Home, dinner, crossword, Elementary, sleep. No snack; I’d partaken of a chocolate sesame confection B brought back from Hong Kong which apparently had a pile of dairy in it, and was having regrets.

I’m researching different kinds of insulation to use for interlining in a coat, which is shaping up to be this year’s winter project. FabricMart finally put their tie silks on deep sale and I scored a nice goldenrod one to use for lining that will show up great against the purple wool I have in stash. So: wool batting? bamboo batting? thinsulate? Something light but warm, and the battings will have to be quilted or regularly tacked down to prevent them shifting and bunching. I need something, as the last wool coat I had was not interlined, and was not warm enough for Pittsburgh winters.