{"id":743,"date":"2017-03-27T05:03:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T10:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=743"},"modified":"2017-03-27T05:07:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T10:07:30","slug":"update-for-3262017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/27\/update-for-3262017\/","title":{"rendered":"Update for 3\/26\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Knowledge representation<\/strong> &#8211; I installed software for the three controlled languages I want to look at, plus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifwiki.org\/index.php\/Inform_7\">Inform 7<\/a> because I&#8217;m curious how well an interactive fiction engine can be adapted to general KR, and I&#8217;ll probably explore some logic programming too, since it&#8217;s fundamental to most forms of KR. This week I&#8217;ll probably read some reference docs but mostly take a break to work on the code console.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Code console<\/strong> &#8211; For the coding guide I collected a lot of the links I&#8217;d found for documentation, and I&#8217;ll finish that section this week, along with relevant code in the console project, and work on the last section for this phase of the guide, configuration. After that I can work on the code console&#8217;s main functionality, creating a new project based on templates.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beliefs report<\/strong> &#8211; As a context for thinking about my future religious activities, I&#8217;ve been starting to round up my current beliefs into an essay, an idea that comes to mind occasionally in church when I&#8217;m confronted with other people&#8217;s spirituality or exhortations about my own (in the form of sermons rather than personal advice). Last week a friend helped out by asking what I believe about prayer, so I&#8217;ve been working on my reply, and some version of that will probably end up in the essay.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Media<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Books<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; I finished <em>The Divine Conspiracy<\/em>&#8211;finally, after many years of meaning to and starting and restarting it&#8211;and although I&#8217;d quibble with some of the details, I like its overall vision, especially its focus on eternity and its outline of a discipleship program. Since we&#8217;re still in Lent and I need more spiritual reading material, I would reread it, but I see it as more of a signpost than a destination, and I&#8217;d rather read something with more detail on one of its themes. Right now my theme seems to be prayer, so I&#8217;m moving on to Philip Yancey&#8217;s <em>Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?<\/em>, which addresses some of my core issues.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>TV<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; I&#8217;ve progressed in <em>Iron Fist<\/em> through episode 6, and I&#8217;m happy to report it does get better. I was able to relax into it by the fourth episode, and even Ward, my least favorite character, is growing on me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Life updates<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Car<\/strong> &#8211; This problem has been developing gradually for a while, but Sunday morning my brake pedal was consistently sinking to the floor when I pressed it, so I&#8217;m making an emergency trip to the mechanic Monday morning. My anxiety level was up Sunday morning, since I wasn&#8217;t sure how safe I&#8217;d be driving it even the minimum I needed, or how easy it would be to make my emergency arrangements, or how long the repair would take, so I made a worry list, got through the first couple of items, and felt better.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project updates Knowledge representation &#8211; I installed software for the three controlled languages I want to look at, plus Inform 7 because I&#8217;m curious how well an interactive fiction engine can be adapted to general KR, and I&#8217;ll probably explore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/27\/update-for-3262017\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,141,160,159,58,105,22,25,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-car","category-coding-project-generator","category-knowledge-representation","category-life_updates","category-project-updates","category-spirituality","category-theology","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}