Commit 65f83d5e656e2a6a02d9716b11da258197a80fe9 - NaNoGenLab

I am quite impressed with these results. Chris Pressey 10 years ago

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0	0	selfref-timeline
1	1	================
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3		_in progress_
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5	3	Hypothesis
6	4	----------
7	5
8	6	We hypothesize that we ought to generate some kind of dialogue based on
9		characters' hopes and memories.
	7	characters' wonderings about the future and memories of the past.
10	8
11	9	Apparatus
12	10	---------

27	25	Observations
28	26	------------
29	27
30		Still has significant bugs, but shows promise.
	28	It still has some fudgy areas (like when there is a PREDICTION of a MEMORY
	29	of that selfsame PREDICTION, with no SIGHTINGs involved), but otherwise,
	30	I think it works quite well. Here is the output of `./selfref-timeline.py 10`:
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32		> Alice turned to Bob and asked, "Bob, do you think we will ever remember that time when see a UFO ranting obnoxiously?"
	32	> Alice and Bob saw a ghost looking pensive.
33	33	>
34		> Bob turned to Alice and said, "Alice, do you remember that one time when we wonder if we'd ever remember that time when see a UFO ranting obnoxiously?"
	34	> Then one day, Alice turned to Bob and said, "Bob, do you remember that one time when we saw a ghost looking pensive?" Alice smiled. "Of course I do, Bob."
35	35	>
36		> Alice turned to Bob and asked, "Bob, do you think we will ever see a UFO ranting obnoxiously?"
	36	> Then one day, Bob turned to Alice and said, "Alice, do you remember that one time when we remembered that time when we saw a ghost looking pensive?" Bob smiled. "Of course I do, Alice."
37	37	>
38		> Alice and Bob saw a UFO ranting obnoxiously.
	38	> Then one day, Bob turned to Alice and asked, "Alice, do you think that one day we will wonder if we'd ever remember that time when we remembered that time when we remembered that time when we remembered that time when we saw a ghost looking pensive?" "I don't know, Bob," said Alice.
	39	>
	40	> Then one day, Bob turned to Alice and asked, "Alice, do you think that one day we will remember that time when we remembered that time when we remembered that time when we remembered that time when we saw a ghost looking pensive?" "I don't know, Bob," said Alice.
	41	>
	42	> Then one day, Bob turned to Alice and said, "Alice, do you remember that one time when we remembered that time when we remembered that time when we saw a ghost looking pensive?" Bob smiled. "Of course I do, Alice."
	43	>
	44	> Then one day, Alice turned to Bob and said, "Bob, do you remember that one time when we remembered that time when we remembered that time when we remembered that time when we saw a ghost looking pensive?" Alice smiled. "Of course I do, Bob."

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39	39
40	40	def render_toplevel(event):
	41	# so much for object-orientation!
41	42	starting_at = event
42	43	mentioned = set([starting_at])
43	44

46	47	if isinstance(event, Prediction):
47	48	return (
48	49	'%s turned to %s and asked, '
49		'"%s, do you think we will ever %s?" '
	50	'"%s, do you think that one day we will %s?" '
50	51	'"I don\'t know, %s," said %s.' % (
51	52	a, b, b,
52	53	render(event.target_event, starting_at, mentioned, tense='future'),

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71	72
72	73	def render(event, starting_at, mentioned, tense='past'):
73		# so much for object-orientation
74		if not event:
75		return 'nothing at all'
76
77		if starting_at == event:
78		return 'this moment'
79
80		if event in mentioned:
81		return 'that moment' # hard to be more specific!
82
83		mentioned = mentioned \| set([event]) # note that we do not modify the shared set
	74	assert event, "you should have filtered these out already you nincompoop"
84	75
85	76	wonder = 'wondered' if tense == 'past' else 'wonder'
86	77	remember = 'remembered' if tense == 'past' else 'remember'
87	78	see = 'saw' if tense == 'past' else 'see'
	79	experience = 'experienced' if tense == 'past' else 'experience'
	80
	81	# this is kind of a bodge to deal with NON-TERMINATING RECURSIVE DEJA VU
	82	if starting_at == event:
	83	return '%s this moment' % experience
	84	if event in mentioned:
	85	# hard to be more specific than this!
	86	return '%s that moment' % experience
	87
	88	mentioned = mentioned \| set([event]) # note that we do not modify the shared set
88	89
89	90	if isinstance(event, Prediction):
90	91	return (

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108	109
109	110	def main(argv):
	111	length = int(argv[1])
	112
110	113	possibilities = (
111	114	Prediction, Prediction, Memory, Memory, Sighting
112	115	)
113		timeline = [random.choice(possibilities)() for x in xrange(0, 50)]
114
	116	timeline = [random.choice(possibilities)() for x in xrange(0, length)]
	117
	118	# FOR TESTING
	119	# timeline = [Prediction(), Memory()]
	120
115	121	while isinstance(timeline[0], Memory):
116	122	timeline = timeline[1:]
117	123