J is currently an excellent tool for developing those skills, but if any of us have implemented J as a notation for homogeneous computations on computing clusters, I've not heard about it.
And that's a shame. We have a lot we could offer people but we need to clean up our act if we are going to succeed there. Thanks, -- Raul On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:13 AM, robert therriault <[email protected]>wrote: > Nice work Raul, > > I agree with Joe that it is key that the audience be identified, the next > step beyond that is finding a way to get the production in front of that > audience...gasp...marketing. > > For now the best suggestion I have is to move your author's note to the > top and make it an abstract. I think it sets the tone and the motivation > for the reader really well. > > On the employment issue, I think that people with skills in big data are > in demand ... and that J is an excellent tool to develop and execute those > skills. > > Cheers, bob > > On Feb 20, 2014, at 7:41 AM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> I think the essay is fairly technical in nature and requires a fairly > steep > >> baseline of knowledge. I agree that it might be helpful to identify the > >> audience up front. Maybe even have a "Why J?" for different types of > >> audiences > >> > > > > In terms of wiki structure, perhaps urls with Essays/WhyJ/AudienceType > > might work. > > > > That said, I am limited in my own vision (which is spread a bit thin > right > > now). > > > > If anyone wants to propose their own draft and/or piggy back their vision > > on mine (or even replace mine - I have no problem taking a back seat), > > please feel free. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Raul > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
