I guess standing up in front of the public and making a live presentation of your software is a rite of passage for any software engineer. My first presentation did not exactly go well. It was before a philosophy club. I did not really want to do it because I knew that my software was not yet up to snuff but the department forced me to do it. It is true that I could have given a lecture about something else but in my opinion metaphysics is broke and the only lectures worth giving are solutions on how to fix metaphysics. I had to use software that dated all the way back to November since my current version is not yet working. I had to spend about 4 hours of time getting the old software working again and getting it ready for a public presentation. Consequently, I had to come up with some new parameters that I was not familiar with for the initial inputs. So the parameters I came up with were im 0 1 to test all of the sentences (I'm building a calculator which can calculate contradictions), im 4 0 to make sure all words are spelled correctly and then im 3 1 to input sentences that the audience wants me to calculate. I know it sounds enormously pathetic but when I tried to test all of the sentences I put in im 1 0 when I was supposed to input im 0 1. That is enormously sad but that's what happened. I could not remember the initial parameters. Luckily, I have my software posted online but it is much more cumbersome and difficult to show people what is going on. I was able to use that but it was much less persuasive. I then tried to take sentences from the audience and calculate them. I had a list of words and they were allowed to put them in any order which is grammatical and then I was supposed to predict whether the calculator would output consistent or contradictory. This also did not go well. They were sort of losing the ability to concentrate. I wanted them to give me 10 sentences but I could only get 3 out of them. In any case, I programmed my computer so that the first inputs all had to predict one truth-value and the other half had to output the opposite truth-value, this was designed to prevent me from just outputting a bunch of gobbledeygook with the word 'consistent' at the end, because let's face it, when I output the justification for one truth-value over the other, no one can understand the output, at least not immediately. I can probably sit down with someone over a five minute period and persuade them that the output is correct because the computer basically just uses substitutions and a few statement logic rules.
In any case, because I forgot to put the hashtag in my input, it was not working correctly. I had to use the online version where I can only calculate one sentence at a time. In any case, out of the three sentences that they asked me to calculate only one of them would have worked. Not very stellar. I'll talk about the second presentation later.
In any case, because I forgot to put the hashtag in my input, it was not working correctly. I had to use the online version where I can only calculate one sentence at a time. In any case, out of the three sentences that they asked me to calculate only one of them would have worked. Not very stellar. I'll talk about the second presentation later.
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