All, I would like to attend the Thursday J Wiki meetings. How do I get an invite to those meetings?
Skip Skip Cave Cave Consulting LLC On Thu, Dec 28, 2023 at 12:05 AM 'robert therriault' via General < gene...@jsoftware.com> wrote: > == Report of Meeting 2023-12-14 == > > Present: Art Anger, Ed Gottsman, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault > > Full transcripts of this meeting are now available on the its wiki page. > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki/Report_of_Meeting_2023-12-14 > > 1) Ed reported that he had removed the time slider as it was taking up > space and it only applied to forum posts. Skip Cave's Quora posts have been > added, but there is a concern that there are verbs that are included in the > solutions that are not defined. The solution may be to split the display so > that the solution is shared with a wiki page that has Skip's definitions on > it, possibly in an expanded text fashion. > > 2) Ed also identified the issues that he has had with highlighting buttons > in Night shift mode which can vary between dark backgrounds and light > backgrounds. Changing the thickness of the border may be an option because > it is not affected by Night shift. > > 3) Ed is working on creating some navigational ways to show higher > dimensional arrays. He is not looking at this problem as purely > visualization because he finds anything above 6 dimensions impossible to > visualize. His navigation aid is a three dimensional array of boxes that > has the dimensions and types of the contents. By clicking on a box he can > show the contents of that box with a breadcrumb display across the top that > shows where you are in the navigation of the array. He showed an example of > a 3 dimensional sliced torus although it did not seem to be displayed the > way that he expected. With this view it is possible to choose any pair of > axes to display the rest of the dimensions of the array. Raul related this > back to his REGEX lab which is working in three dimensions and Fourier > transforms which are n-rank with each dimension as a value of 2. Bob > mentioned Grant Sanderson's video on quaternions which has an excellent > display of 4 dimension space. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4EgbgTm0Bg > > 4) Bob mentioned that Chris Burke had contacted him again to express > concern about the play-doh look of the wiki and the way that it might > represent Jsoftware inappropriately to some of its clients. The more > cartoonish navigation is actually independent of the traditional guides. > Bob felt that the Jsoftware site could link to the guide navigation > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page while other links outside of > Jsoftware could link to the cartoonish look > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Category:Home. Raul wondered if the > graphics could be generated from J code and that might be more acceptable. > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Studio/Gallery A further clarification > may need to be determined as to the role of the wiki with respect to > Jsoftware. This resulted in a discussion about the changes that had been > made to some of the Jsoftware content that had been brought into the wiki. > Ed felt there might need to be a discussion that clarified the lines of > demarcation between J software and the wiki. Bob felt that a more corporate > approach would be something closer to the Announcements page > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Category:Announcements_A , but this might > not be as attractive to new users. The question that remains is how we can > best serve the audiences that we have in mind, knowing that it may not be > possible to serve all audiences equally. > > For access to previous meeting reports > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Wiki_Development If you would like to > participate in the development of the J wiki please contact us on the > general forum and we will get you an invitation to the next J wiki meeting > held on Thursdays at 23:00 (UTC) Next meeting is December 28, 2023. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
