For those unfamiliar with my blog, I'm working on building an algorithm which will determine if a natural language sentence is a contradiction or not. A contradiction, roughly speaking, is a sentence which is always false. So while 'I do not have a dog' is false it is not a contradiction because we could imagine a situation where it would be true. 'I am drinking rocks' on the other hand is false and a contradiction since we cannot imagine a situation where the drinking of rocks is possible. It should also be pointed out that we are only concerned with literal sentences since metaphorically speaking 'drinking rocks' is possible. I have now spent 4.43 years and 7712 hours on this project. I made a real big breakthrough back in April where I was actually able to predict the consistency of sentences to 90% accuracy in a public demonstration. Since, then however, it has taken a lot of work to refactor my code such that it is consistent with my new knowledge. I've still probably got about 180 hours or 4 weeks before I can fully refactor everything, but even after that's finished progress is still going to be painfully slow for at least the next 3 years.

I've recently decided to fully devote my whole life to this project. I've given up on my ambitions to get married and fall in love, that sort of thing. That was a rather hard decision because I used to be a poet and wrote roughly 60 love poems. I never succeeded in falling in love with someone, not even close, so at the age of 41, I've decided to stake my whole life's happiness on this project. I'm rather confident of success, it's just going to take a very long time before my dreams start approaching reality.