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[04:16:18] <drbean> No Problem?
[04:56:20] <odanoburu> drbean: that makes sense haha thanks!
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[09:55:34] <inariksit> drbean: well deciphered
[09:56:35] <inariksit> I understand the confusion, in the context of computer science or linguistics it could as well be noun phrase or nondeterministic polynomial!
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[16:30:08] <inariksit> today I achieved: figured out that in one 12-argument function, the argument "xaf" should be chosen for imperative instead of the argument "axaf"
[16:30:13] <inariksit> gftest is so useful for this :3
[16:31:00] <inariksit> I change one morphological function, tons of verbs change, output looks like  this:
[16:31:01] <inariksit> * die_V
[16:31:01] <inariksit> ** PhrUtt NoPConj (UttImpPl PPos (ImpVP (UseV ∅))) NoVoc
[16:31:01] <inariksit> LangAra> مُتْ
[16:31:01] <inariksit> LangAra-OLD> َمُتْ
[16:31:22] <inariksit> then I go to the appropriate wiktionary page, ctrl+f both new and old and see which one is found in the inflection table
[16:31:34] <inariksit> and if it's the new one, then it's a sign that my change was an improvement
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[17:38:38] <inariksit> hi noncsi!
[17:39:02] <inariksit> feel like completing your GF course from 2016? :-D
[17:40:54] <inariksit> (sorry that sounded rude, I was just excited about lost lambs finding their way back to the light! ^_^ okay and that sounded just creepy, but whatever, I'm not the TA anymore!)
[17:51:07] <noncsi> haha
[17:51:13] <noncsi> yes i am actually doing that
[17:51:16] <inariksit> \o/
[17:51:37] <noncsi> it was ages ago but i never got around getting into it again so it's now! yay.
[17:52:02] <inariksit> yeah that's more common than actually finishing the course in one spring
[17:52:46] <noncsi> good to know, thanks. i feel a bit less of a failure
[17:53:52] <inariksit> so where are you located in space nowadays?
[17:54:05] <inariksit> I'm still in gothenburg, and I've got an actual job writing GF :-D
[17:54:24] <inariksit> https://www.digitalgrammars.com/
[17:54:32] <noncsi> that sounds very very unreal and fun at the same time, so congrats!
[17:54:38] <inariksit> thanks!
[17:54:52] <noncsi> i am in geneva for the time being until i figure out what i want to do further with my life
[17:55:31] <noncsi> and how is this job so far?
[17:56:00] <inariksit> so it's only been september, and I'm working on arabic! it still feels like I'm just playing around all day
[17:56:19] <noncsi> that's nice to get paid for though
[17:56:31] <inariksit> but yeah I can read the alphabet kinda by now, slowly
[17:56:44] <noncsi> ahahahaha
[17:56:52] <inariksit> there's some implementation already, and I'm adding stuff and fixing bugs that I find
[17:57:29] <inariksit> I actually just described the process when you weren't online :-D but there's now a tool that takes two grammars and outputs only what differs among those
[17:57:39] <inariksit> so I change some function, run the tool, then compare the outputs
[17:57:52] <inariksit> i.e. I copy both strings, ctrl+f that in Wiktionary inflection table
[17:58:01] <inariksit> and see whether the old or the new (or neither) is found in that table
[17:58:13] <inariksit> so that's how I know if I fixed things or made them worse!
[17:59:11] <noncsi> it's crazy that you can do this without speaking much of the language
[17:59:38] <inariksit> yeah my task is not to produce idiomatic language, it's more of formalising a grammar book
[17:59:51] <inariksit> inflection tables are inflection tables, regardless if I can say sweet words about love
[17:59:55] <inariksit> or order a vegan burger
[18:00:57] <noncsi> fair enough
[18:00:58] <inariksit> so the workflow is that when we have proper inflection tables and smart paradigms, we can ask language consultants how to say X, and then when we write mkCl (mkV2 "order") (mkNP a_Det (mkN "burger")), hopefully the inflection is correct
[18:01:12] <noncsi> : D
[18:01:31] <noncsi> this is a really funny job!
[18:01:35] <inariksit> yeah!
[18:01:50] <inariksit> I am so far in total disbelief that this is a job that exists
[18:02:15] <noncsi> I sort of understand why ahah
[18:02:18] <inariksit> hihi
[18:03:01] <noncsi> anyway I have to go now there's open night at CERN and hopefully they will say a lot of interesting things!
[18:03:08] <inariksit> ooh nice!
[18:03:17] <noncsi> yeah right?
[18:03:22] <noncsi> but see you around!
[18:03:30] <inariksit> \o
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[19:59:57] <inariksit> friday night program: let's make gftest work with stack!
[20:00:11] <inariksit> or maybe odanoburu or someone else already figured that out
[20:15:37] <inariksit> okay it was pretty quick :-P https://github.com/GrammaticalFramework/gftest/blob/master/stack.yaml