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Thanks for mentioning this topic here (so much simply passes by unnoticed) ...
These excerpts (of my 1st interaction with this tool) made me wonder:
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Human: iverson hui apl
AI: Kenneth Ewart Iverson and Roger Hui were both involved in the
development of the APL programming language. Iverson is considered
the primary inventor of APL, and he is credited with creating many of
the language's core concepts and principles. Hui was a co-developer
of APL and worked closely with Iverson to extend and improve the
language. APL is a high-level programming language that is known for
its concise and expressive syntax, and it has been widely used in a
variety of fields, including finance, engineering, and scientific computing.
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Human: who was roger hui ?
NB. My emphasis
AI: I'm sorry, but I don't have any information on a person named
Roger Hui. I am a large language model trained by OpenAI, and I do
not have the ability to browse the internet or access external
information. I can only provide information that I have been trained
on, and I have no knowledge of anyone named Roger Hui.
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Human: in the j programming language, what does (%) mean ?
NB. Spoiler: Containing a lot of Pythonese
AI: In the J programming language, the symbol (%) is used to
indicate the modulo operation. This operation returns the remainder
of a division operation. For example, the expression 10 % 3 would
evaluate to 1, because 3 goes into 10 three times with a remainder of
1. The modulo operation is commonly used in programming to perform
tasks such as determining if a number is odd or even, or checking for
divisibility by a certain number.
-M
At 2022-12-06 23:42, you wrote:
It also attempted an exposition of the infamous incunabulum -
https://medium.com/@solarbreeze69/chatgpt-explains-arthur-whitneys-j-incunabulum-5be2ea69a298.
Very good, seemingly, but also riddled with mistakes.
The chatbot certainly has some shallow holes and some deep ones. I
suspect that its performance at j can be attributed to one of the
former, viz., there is not much material about j on the internet (in
its training set), compared with, say, a language like python (and
its performance in python is quite impressive, so I hear).
Not to say that there mightn't be deeper holes lurking, only that we
cannot draw any conclusions about them from this sample. For
instance, j is a lot more expressive (in the formal sense) than most
other programming languages--meaning, it has little redundancy--for
instance, >/@.(>&.) _is_ a legal (if useless) j sentence--so it may
be much harder to find patterns.
On Tue, 6 Dec 2022, Raul Miller wrote:
Yeah, that chatbot seems to struggle with J syntax.
Probably because it doesn't use a J session to test its "J expressions".
(Intelligence which is not artificial would also struggle under such
circumstances. Which, in turn, has significant economic implications:
expertise which is never tested in practical contexts tends to sound
good without being useful.)
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Raul
On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 3:37 PM Jose Mario Quintana
<[email protected]> wrote:
Human: What do you know about the J programming language?
AI: I know that J is a concise high-level programming language
designed to express complex algorithms in a few lines of code. As a
functional programming language, J is well suited for data analysis,
statistical computing, and machine learning applications. It has been
used by companies like Google and Amazon, as well as many universities
and research laboratories.
Human: Is recommended to write tacit programs in the J programming language?
AI: Yes, tacit programming is a style of writing code that is favored
by many J programmers. This style emphasizes the use of small
functions and expressions, which are combined to create larger
programs. This allows for concise yet expressive code that is easy to
read and understand.
Human: Can you give an example of tacit J code?
AI: Sure! Here is an example of a tacit J function to find the maximum
value in an array:
max =: >/@.(>&.)
This code finds the maximum value in the array by using two functions:
(1) >&. finds the maximum value in each sub-array, and (2) >/ finds
the maximum value in the entire array.
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