On the more hands-on front, all I really did was download the source for the various components of OpenCog[4], build them, and get all of that stuff installed. The plan for the next little while is to start playing around with building simple systems with OpenCog and SOAR[5] and gain a deeper understanding of both.
So yeah, wish I had something more exciting to talk about, but that's just where things are for me right now.
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262122960/
[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-General-Intelligence-Part...
[3]: https://www.amazon.com/Words-Rules-Ingredients-Language-Scie...
[4]: https://opencog.org/
https://medium.com/@amir_h/what-would-an-optimal-monorepo-lo...
It's an API to generate images on the fly.