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linkhyrule5 comments on Introducing Familiar, a quantified reasoning assistant (feedback sought!) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: linkhyrule5 07 September 2013 12:58:03AM *  0 points [-]

Also, the default time is a good four hours off (presumably because of timezones?) Is there a way to change that?

Can you use percentage variables?

(And while we're at it, is there are more comprehensive readme anywhere?)

Comment author: jamesf 07 September 2013 04:55:58AM *  0 points [-]

You want

(change-time (days -1))

if the active time is on the wrong day. The active time being wrong but on the correct day doesn't matter yet since only day-resolution variables are supported. A time zone setting will be added along with variables of arbitrary time resolution.

For percentage variables, use

(num-interval 0 100)

as the validator for a variable. (I will add "percent" as a built-in validator.)

Besides the built-in documentation for all the API functions, the readme on GitHub is the most comprehensive existing documentation. Of course I intend to fix that eventually, probably along with the next release which is going to be the one where there is a GUI.

Thank you for all your feedback!

Comment author: linkhyrule5 07 September 2013 05:41:07AM 0 points [-]

A time zone setting will be added along with variables of arbitrary time resolution.

Yeah, this is what I need. I'm planning to do most of my data-input at 2am-ish, and it'd be nice to not have to remember to mentally subtract a day from the existing data.

And thanks for making this!