[Jgeneral] Fwd: [Jprogramming] Report of the J wiki meeting of December 14th, 2023

2023-12-27 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
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[Jgeneral] Report of the J wiki meeting of December 14th, 2023

2023-12-27 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== 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

Re: [Jgeneral] add prefix to a boxed list

2023-12-16 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
This seems like it would get more responses in the programming forum, but you can also use gerund operands to &. and select which argument you want to process. names=:'Aileen';'Brittney';'Gail';'Fiona' 'Mrs. ' ,&.(a:`>) names ┌───┬─┬─┬──┐ │Mrs. Aileen│Mrs.

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of December 7, 2023

2023-12-13 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-12-07 == Present: 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_2023-12-07 1) Ed reported that he can now get Skip Cave's answers to Quora

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of 2023-11-30

2023-12-04 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-11-30 == Present: Ed Gottsman, Raul Miller, Raghu Ranganathan 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_2023-11-30 1) Bob welcomed Raghu to the meeting and Ed

[Jgeneral] Report of the J wiki Meeting of November 23

2023-11-29 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-11-23 == Present: 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/Reprot_of_Meeting_2023-11-23 1) Bob had read out an email from Brian Schott thanking the group

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of November 16, 2023

2023-11-22 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-11-16 == 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_2023-11-16 1) Bob had received Ed's footage of his demo and there

[Jgeneral] Report of the J wiki group meeting of November 2, 2023

2023-11-12 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-11-02 == Present: 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_2023-11-02 1) Ed plans to record a screencast of the demo and send the files

[Jgeneral] Report of J Wiki Meeting of 2023-10-26

2023-10-31 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-10-26 == 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_2023-10-26 1) Ed gave an update on the work he had been doing on

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of October 19, 2023

2023-10-25 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-10-19 == 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_2023-10-19 1) Ed gave his response to some discussions on where

[Jgeneral] Report of the J wiki meeting of October 12

2023-10-17 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-09-21 == Present: 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_2023-10-12 1) Bob reports that he did not do much on the wiki while on

[Jgeneral] Report of J Wiki Meeting 2023-09-21

2023-09-24 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-09-21 == 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_2023-09-21 1) Ed has run into some problems with the beta of the J

[Jgeneral] Report of J Wiki Meeting of 2023-09-14

2023-09-19 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-09-14 == Present: 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_2023-09-14 1) Ed now has 7 beta users on the J Wiki Viewer. The current bugs

[Jgeneral] The new episode of the ArrayCast podcast features Marshall Lochbaum, who previously coded in J

2023-09-15 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
In the new episode of the ArrayCast podcast, Marshall Lochbaum tells us all about Singeli, a fast intermediate representation language that can support the array languages in an array friendly way. Host: Conor Hoekstra Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Stephen Taylor and Bob

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of September 07, 2023

2023-09-12 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-09-07 == Present: Art Anger, Ed Gottsman, Devon McCormick, 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_2023-09-07 1) Ed did a quick overview of the J Wiki Browser

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of 2023-08-31

2023-09-02 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-08-31 == 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_2023-08-31 1) Ed did a demo which is available on YouTube

[Jgeneral] The array language Nial is the subject of the ArrayCast podcast with guest Lynn Sutherland

2023-09-01 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Lynn Sutherland, who worked on the array language Nial during its initial development in the 1980's, is the guest on this episode of ArrayCast. Host: Conor Hoekstra Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.

Re: [Jgeneral] help on gui

2023-08-30 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Markus, You have asked a very timely question. I have been updating the Primer over the last month and GUI part 1 is the page that I am currrently working on. Ed's suggestion is an excellent one for the time being. I would appreciate any feedback that you can give as I update the GUI section

[Jgeneral] Report of J Wiki Meeting of 2023-08-17

2023-08-20 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-08-17 == Present: 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_2023-08-17 1) Ed updated on Live Search and has made it a local database

[Jgeneral] Rob Pike, co-creator of the Go language is a big fan of array languages

2023-08-18 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Rob Pike, co-creator of the Go language and UTF-8, tells us why every programmer should know about the array languages. Host: Conor Hoekstra Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault. https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode60-rob-pike

[Jgeneral] Report of the J wiki meeting of 2023-08-10

2023-08-11 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-08-10 == Present: Art Anger, Ed Gottsman, 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_2023-08-10 1) Ed presented the issues that he was having incorporating Live

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of August 3, 2023

2023-08-09 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-08-03 == Present: Art Anger, Chris Burke, 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_2023-08-03 1) We began answering Chris' question of

[Jgeneral] Raul Miller is the guest on this episode of the ArrayCast podcast and he is talking about precision in computing.

2023-08-04 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Raul Miller joins the ArrayCast to discuss precision in the world of computing. Host: Conor Hoekstra Guest: Raul Miller Panel: Adám Brudzewsky, Marshall Lochbaum, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault. https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode59-raul-miller

[Jgeneral] Report of J Wiki Meeting of 2023-07-27

2023-08-02 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-07-27 == Present: Ed Gottsman, Dave Lambert, 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_2023-27-20 1) Prior to the meeting start we solved an issue that

[Jgeneral] Report of the J wiki meeting of July 20, 2023

2023-07-26 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-07-20 == Present: Art Anger, Ed Gottsman, 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_2023-07-20 1) Ed lead off with a demo of the current J wiki Browser

[Jgeneral] Report of J Wiki Meeting of 2023-07-13

2023-07-19 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-07-13 == Present: Art Anger, Ed Gottsman, Dave Lambert 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_2023-07-13 1) Bob reported that the J primer revamping is complete

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of June 8, 2023

2023-06-14 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-06-08 == Present: 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_2023-06-08 1) Bob started off by saying that he had decided to not move the CSS to the

Re: [Jgeneral] savemat_jviewmat_ j9.4 - all colors are white

2023-06-14 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
I just tested on my mac and the saved png displays properly. JVERSION Engine: j9.4.1/j64avx512/darwin Build: commercial/2023-02-27T15:27:40/clang-14-0-0/SLEEF=1 Library: 9.4.22 Qt IDE: 2.4.1/6.2.4(6.2.4) Platform: Darwin 64 Installer: j9.4 install InstallPath: /users/bobtherriault/j9.4

[Jgeneral] Report of the J wiki meeting of June 1st, 2023

2023-06-07 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-06-01 == Present: 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_2023-06-01 1) Ed began with a demo of his latest iteration on the J wiki

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of May 25, 2023

2023-05-31 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-05-25 == Present: 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_2023-05-18 1) Ed started the meeting off with a demonstration of his newest

Re: [Jgeneral] Crash in m"n WAS: How to perform operation on every 3rd value in a vector

2023-05-29 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
No problem on Mac. It recognizes the value error list=:_1 4 6 8 3 5 8 _1 7 4 abc`0:`*: "0 list NB. abc being undefined |value error: abc | abc`0:`*:"0 list JVERSION Engine: j9.4.1/j64avx512/darwin Build: commercial/2023-02-27T15:27:40/clang-14-0-0/SLEEF=1 Library: 9.4.22 Qt IDE:

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of 2023-05-18

2023-05-21 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-05-18 == Present: John Baker, Ed Gottsman, Dave Lambert 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_2023-05-18 1) Ed did not have an update on the J wiki as he is

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of May 11, 2023

2023-05-15 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-05-11 == Present: Ed Gottsman, Dave Lambert , 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_2023-05-11 1) The began with Raul sharing an animation of a

[Jgeneral] Report of J Wiki Meeting 2023-05-04

2023-05-08 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-05-04 == Present: Ed Gottsman, Devon McCormick, 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_2023-05-04 1) Since Ed has got to a point of polishing up

[Jgeneral] Report of J Wiki Meeting of April 27, 2023

2023-05-04 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-04-27 == Present: Ed Gottsman, Devon McCormick, 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_2023-04-27 1) We started off with Ed's latest demo of the

[Jgeneral] A new episode of The ArrayCast podcast is out

2023-04-28 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
On this episode of ArrayCast we take a deep look at the Scan and Fold operators in k, q, BQN, J and other array languages. Host: Conor Hoekstra Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Richard Park, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault. https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode52-fold-and-scan

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of April 20, 2023

2023-04-24 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Ed Gottsman, Devon McCormick, 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_2023-04-20 1) We started off with Ed's seventh demo of the new J wiki browser. Ed mentioned

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of April 13, 2023

2023-04-19 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Ed Gottsman, Devon McCormick, 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_2023-04-13 1) We started off with Ed's sixth demo of the new J wiki browser. As much of this is

[Jgeneral] Report of J wiki Meeting for April 06, 2023

2023-04-12 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-04-06 == Present: Ed Gottsman, Dave Lambert, 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_2023-04-06 1) We started off with Ed's fifth demo of the new J

[Jgeneral] Report of J Wiki Meeting of March 30, 2023

2023-04-05 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-03-30 == Present: Ed Gottsman, Dave Lambert, Devon McCormick, 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_2023-03-30 1) We started off with Ed's fourth

[Jgeneral] Henry Rich talks about the Fold conjunction on this episode of the ArrayCast podcast

2023-03-31 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Henry Rich returns to talk about Fold and other conjunctions that facilitate functional programming. If you want to know more about Fold and why you should be using it, you should listen to this episode. Host: Conor Hoekstra Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, and Bob Therriault.

[Jgeneral] Report of J wiki meeting of March 23, 2023

2023-03-29 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-03-23 == Present: Ed Gottsman, Dave Lambert, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault 1) Ed led off the meeting with a demo of the most recent iteration of the J Wiki browser that he has developed in jQt. This one includes forum content, which will eventually

[Jgeneral] Report of J Wiki Meeting of March 16th, 2023

2023-03-20 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-03-16 == Present: Art Anger, Ed Gottsman, Dave Lambert, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault 1) Ed started things off with a presentation his revamped wiki interface, which includes faster access to the web pages and a more economical approach to displaying the map. Well

[Jgeneral] New episode of the ArrayCast podcast

2023-03-17 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
On this episode of the ArrayCast podcast: What things affect the performance of the array languages. Is being the fastest really that important for most users? Host: Conor Hoekstra Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Richard Park, and Bob Therriault.

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of March 9, 2023

2023-03-13 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-03-09 == Present: Ed Gottsman, Dave Lambert, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault 1) Ed started things off with a presentation of a innovative wiki navigator that he has developed. Briefly, it provides visual a random access map of the entire wiki.

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of March 1st, 2023

2023-03-08 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-03-01 == Present: Art Anger, Dave Lambert, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault 1) Art began the discussion with a question about the ambiguity of the term row - is it adding two rows together or if it is the sum of the atoms in the row. Raul suggested

[Jgeneral] The topic for this episode of the ArrayCast podcast is the release of j9.4 and what it brings to J users

2023-03-03 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
J9.4 is released with multiple threads, faster large number calculations and error message improvements. Host: Conor Hoekstra Guest: Henry Rich Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, and Bob Therriault. https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode48-henry-rich

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of February 23, 2023

2023-02-26 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
== Report of Meeting 2023-02-23 == Present: Art Anger, Bryce LeCates, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault 1) We were joined by Bryce Lecates, a newcomer to J who is interested in the development of the wiki. Bryce was invited to join the wiki as a user. He indicated that there

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki meeting of February 16th, 2023

2023-02-21 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault 1) We started off with a discussion of the categorization that Bob has done. Raul pointed out that in cases such as NYCJUG pages there are many sub categories that could be applied in addition to the User Groups category. Bob

Re: [Jgeneral] Wiki script upload

2023-02-21 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
First, thank you for doing the work on 50 Shades Jan-Pieter. For the upload, I see that the Mime type of the original file is ‎(file size: 1 KB, MIME type: text/ijs). I am not aware of any changes, but perhaps changing the MIME type from text/plain to text/ijs might work? Chris may have a

[Jgeneral] Leslie Goldsmith is the guest of this episode of ArrayCast

2023-02-17 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Leslie Goldsmith wrote I.P. Sharp's secure email system when he was in high school and that was just the beginning of his array language journey. Host: Conor Hoekstra Guest: Leslie Goldsmith Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of February 9th, 2023

2023-02-15 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault 1) Bob showed off the work that he has been doing in category trees https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Page_Map and is in the process of categorizing all the pages in the wiki. Originally, he was categorizing across a number of subtrees until

[Jgeneral] Report of J wiki meeting of February 2, 2023

2023-02-08 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault 1) We began with a discussion of activating add-ons from the wiki. Art would like to be able to click on an add-on that he has identified and have it installed. Bob usually thinks of the description of the add-ons on the wiki

[Jgeneral] A new episode of the ArrayCast podcast is available

2023-02-03 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
On this episode we speak to Michael Higginson, a q programmer who won the professional class of the 2022 Dyalog competition. Host: Conor Hoekstra Guest: Michael Higginson Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Rich Park, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of January 26, 2023

2023-02-01 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault 1) We began with a discussion of whether there should be a way to launch J from the wiki. Bob mentioned that the J Playground would the way to do this. Any other way would require J to be downloaded and Raul pointed out that with multiple

Re: [Jgeneral] wiki ~ Vocabulary/Foreigns

2023-01-29 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
; Undertaking rigorous statistics in support of the NSW environment > For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and > wrong. Mencken > >> -Original Message- >> From: General On Behalf Of 'robert >> therriault' via General >> Sent:

Re: [Jgeneral] wiki ~ Vocabulary/Foreigns

2023-01-29 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
n certain > operating systems. > > FYI, > > -- > Raul > > On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 3:04 PM 'robert therriault' via General > wrote: >> >> Yep, I agree >> >> Also, that 1!:32 should have >> >> filenumber,start,length >> filenumber is a fi

Re: [Jgeneral] wiki ~ Vocabulary/Foreigns

2023-01-29 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
ilenumber;filename representing one file opened by 1!:*31* > Locks 30 '' _ A table where each row > contains filenumber,start,length representing one lock established by 1!: > *21* > > because 1!:31 is "Lock File Region" whereas 1!:21 is "Open". > &

Re: [Jgeneral] wiki ~ Vocabulary/Foreigns

2023-01-29 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
I went in to fix it, but Raul had already beaten me to it! Ian, if you have the time, we can always use sharp eyes to make wiki corrections. All you need to do is sign up. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/About Cheers, bob > On Jan 29, 2023, at 03:30, 'Ian Shannon' via General > wrote: > >

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting for January 12, 2022

2023-01-16 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Ed Gottsman, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault 1) The meeting began a bit later than usual with Bob showing some of the things that he had discovered about the category trees. There are two types of ways to add categories. One is to add a category to a page which allows you to

[Jgeneral] Report on the J wiki Meeting of January 5, 2023

2023-01-07 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault 1)Bob began showing some of the things he had done on the current wiki. Specifically creation of the home page https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Home an additional navigation bar for wiki hints and announcements

[Jgeneral] A new episode of the ArrayCast podcast is out

2023-01-06 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Hi everyone, On this episode we talk about recreational programming and advice about how to decide on which array language to learn. Host: Conor Hoekstra Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki meeting of December 29, 2022

2022-12-29 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault 1) Raul began by showing an APL https://janiczek.github.io/tryapl-elm/ doc that could be a model to allow for roll over of characters and information that may provide an easy way for users to be able to interact with the

[Jgeneral] A new episode of ArrayCast

2022-12-23 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
John Earnest returns to talk about his work extending the array languages into other domains and his new project, Decker. Host: Conor Hoekstra Guest: John Earnest Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of December 15, 2022

2022-12-19 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault 1) Bob began by talking about the template that he has been developing to create navigation bars and wiki pages which should speed up the transition if he ever gets around to implementing it. He also mentioned the Julia programming language

[Jgeneral] Report on the J Wiki Meeting of December 8th

2022-12-12 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault 1) Bob started by showing the new pages that he had developed that used Raul's method of putting the search bar above the content. It was agreed that the presentation was better and no reason could be found that this would

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of 2022-11-24

2022-11-27 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault 1) We began by looking at an adjustment that Raul had made to the sidebar that allowed the the user to go from the prototype wiki to the corresponding page on the current wiki https://code2.jsoftware.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Sidebar. This is an

[Jgeneral] The new episode of the ArrayCast features John Earnest, k programmer

2022-11-25 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
In this episode, we talk to John Earnest, creator of the ok.js k6 interpreter and an expert on k programming, about many aspects of array programming, including the relationship between k and Forth. Host: Conor Hoekstra Guest: John Earnest Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Stephen

[Jgeneral] Report of J Wiki Meeting of November 17, 2022

2022-11-21 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, and Bob Therriault 1) We looked at Art's index to the Essays which now includes difficulty levels. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Anger/Essays_Index Difficulty was assigned subjectively and might be adjusted by other's input over time. Then a

[Jgeneral] Corrected link for Arraycast

2022-11-11 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Apologies for the noise, but the correct url for the podcast episode should be https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode40-michal-wallace Cheers, bob -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

[Jgeneral] Michal Wallace of 1010data is the guest on the new episode of the ArrayCast podcast

2022-11-11 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
In this episode, we talk to Michal Wallace AKA tangentstorm, a k3 programmer for 1010data who also produces videos about J. Host: Conor Hoekstra Guest: Michal Wallace Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.

[Jgeneral] Report of J Wiki Group meeting of November 10, 2022

2022-11-11 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Devon McCormick and Bob Therriault 1) Bob reviews the suggestions that Art has provided on the structure of the prototype wiki https://code2.jsoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page. Bob-- Please consider revisions on several pages, as listed below. Thanks. --Art -- a)

[Jgeneral] Report of the J wiki group meeting of November 3, 2022

2022-11-09 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Raul Miller and Bob Therriault 1) Bob apologizes for another meeting miss last week due to connectivity issues. 2) Raul mentions updating an undocumented foreign and suggests that he will continue to make updates to foreigns as he spots them. Bob mentions that he knows of

[Jgeneral] Episode 39 of the ArrayCast is available

2022-10-28 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Iversonian language or Array language? In this episode, we what makes an an array language an Iversonian array language and discover many other languages along the way. Host: Conor Hoekstra Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewski, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.

[Jgeneral] Report on the J Wiki Meeting of October 20, 2022

2022-10-27 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Raul Miller and Bob Therriault 1) Bob showed some of the work he has been doing on the wiki structure. https://code2.jsoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page He has been using an ability to rename pages as a way to make navigation easier, since the file structure shows up if the page

Re: [Jgeneral] Significant change wrt Rank from J805 to J903?

2022-10-22 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
The original example was (>1 0 1; 1 1 0; 0 1 1 ) #"_ 1 > 1 2 3;4 5 6 I think that Raul was using ; in place of # for illustrative purposes. (>1 0 1; 1 1 0; 0 1 1 ) ;"_ 1 > 1 2 3;4 5 6 NB. J805 ┌─┬─┐ │1 0 1│1 2 3│ │1 1 0│ │ │0 1 1│ │ ├─┼─┤ │1 0 1│4 5 6│ │1 1 0│ │

[Jgeneral] Report of the J wiki meeting of October 13, 2022

2022-10-19 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, and Bob Therriault 1) Bob and Art talked about using redirects to reorganize the wiki and whether there is an issue with having two pages that have similar information. If one was in an Archived folder the other could be in a live folder that might be updated. This would

[Jgeneral] Report of the J wiki Group meeting of October 6, 2022

2022-10-12 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault 1) Bob apologized for last meeting not happening due to campsite connectivity. Art asked about the future of J and Bob indicated that there may be a push to making J more accessible to developers. 2) Bob talked about making a more accessible way

[Jgeneral] Report of J Wiki Meeting of September 22, 2022

2022-09-26 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault 1) Bob showed the work that he had done on the navigation of the add-ons that suggested a clearer distinction between user, developer and reference material. https://code2.jsoftware.com/wiki/JAL/User_Guide the primary work is the

Re: [Jgeneral] [Jbeta] Error in new wiki

2022-09-26 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Hi Don, The J code search has an error in the (yellow) prototype wiki when there is a search for a page that does not exist. The (blue) current wiki does have a working J code search. Thank you for testing and reporting the error. As Chris has noted, it may not be fixed in the yellow wiki

[Jgeneral] Report of J wiki group meeting of September 15th, 2022

2022-09-21 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault 1) The meeting opened with Art walking us through his table view of the essays with collapsible sections that can be searched alphabetically and ordered by columns for Title, Source, Applications,and Operations.

[Jgeneral] Report on the meeting of the J wiki group of September 08, 2022

2022-09-13 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault 1) The meeting opened with a discussion on what might be good targets for the fall wiki improvements. Bob talked about content based projects such as Essay categorization https://code2.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Cat , structural changes such as

[Jgeneral] Report on the J wiki Meeting of September 1st, 2022

2022-09-03 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault 1) Bob spoke about the categorization of Essays and commended Thomas McGuire, Paul Jackson and Devon McCormick for their work in categorizing some of the essays.

[Jgeneral] Lib Gibson is the guest for the 35th episode of the Array Cast podcast.

2022-09-02 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
In this episode, we talk to Lib Gibson about being the ‘Zookeeper’ for IP Sharp and Clay Christensen’s theory of disruption. Host: Conor Hoekstra Guest: Lib Gibson Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Adám Brudzewsky and Bob Therriault. https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode35-lib-gibson

[Jgeneral] Report on the J Wiki Group Meeting of August 25, 2022

2022-08-29 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault 1) Bob talked about the recent increase in requests for wiki id's as a result of the recent videos. Also, note that the two wikis require separate request for id's for those who were not users when the yellow wiki was created.

[Jgeneral] Report on the J wiki Meeting of 2022-08-18

2022-08-25 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Chris Burke, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault 1) Bob talked about the video that he had posted on how to get involved in the wiki and help to categorize the essays https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2hsnuxK79c Bob also mentioned that some of the wiki instructions still referenced

[Jgeneral] Romilly Cocking is the guest on this episode of the Array Cast

2022-08-19 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
In this episode of the Array Cast, we talk to Romilly Cocking about APL, Smalltalk, Python, Clojure and Pop2 . What is Pop2? Listen and find out. Host: Conor Hoekstra Guest: Romilly Cocking Panel: Marshall Lochbaum, Richard Park, Stephen Taylor and Bob Therriault.

[Jgeneral] Video Wiki update and how to help categorize essays

2022-08-18 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Hi everyone, I just put out a new wiki update video that explains how you can join in the effort to categorize the J wiki essays and help make them easier to navigate. Here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2hsnuxK79c Included in the notes are links to the pages that you might

[Jgeneral] The Report of the J wiki meeting of August 11, 2022

2022-08-14 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault 1) We started with a look at the page that Devon had put together called "Proposed Wiki Emphasis" https://code2.jsoftware.com/wiki/User:Devon_McCormick/ProposedWikiEmphasis that would be an overview of the wiki priorities. Bob

[Jgeneral] Report on the J wiki Meeting of August 4, 2022

2022-08-06 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, John Baker, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault 1) Bob reviewed the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWqixYyb52Q that he produced to show people places of interest on the current wiki making use of the sidebar to allow access. 2) In categorizing the essays for

[Jgeneral] This week's video with some pointers on the information contained in the current wiki

2022-08-02 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Hi everyone, We are in the process of reorganizing the wiki, but we thought in the meantime people may not be aware of the vast amount of information about J that is available in the current form of the wiki. This video will give you some ways to get quick access to some of the most

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Meeting of July 28, 2022

2022-07-29 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Thomas Bulka, Devon McCormick, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault 1) Bob reviewed the changes that he had made to the sidebar https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page, adding links to the J playground (naming it "J in a Browser") and moving the custom search up to the top of the

Re: [Jgeneral] Areas to emphasize with the new J wiki

2022-07-29 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Thanks Devon, I added a link on the sidebar of the code2 (yellow J) wiki to facilitate access. Cheers, bob > On Jul 29, 2022, at 10:05, Devon McCormick wrote: > > I've put together a page intended to help us focus on areas we want to > emphasize for the new wiki: >

[Jgeneral] Wiki update video and revised promo video

2022-07-26 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Hi everyone, One video on the recent changes that we have made to the wiki sidebar, as well as a chance to see the upcoming potential changes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8aEdnduINk The promo video that I made back in the spring with improved audio and a little tighter on the editing.

Re: [Jgeneral] wiki migration

2022-07-25 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Good question Viktor, Our plan, at this point in time, is to upgrade the old blue version of the wiki (code) based on the prototypes that we test in the new yellow version (code2). As a result, persistent changes should be made in the old blue (code) wiki, but if you want to try something out

[Jgeneral] Report on J wiki meeting of July 21, 2022

2022-07-23 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, John Baker, Raul Miller, Bob Therriault, Michal Wallace 1) Bob presented an idea for transitioning the wik by using the yellow J wiki as a prototype https://code2.jsoftware.com/wiki/Main_Page and gradually make changes to the blue J wiki

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki meeting of July 14th, 2022

2022-07-18 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Bob Therriault 1) Bob reported that he had set up a page for new developments in the new wiki. Currently it has content of Raul's index work and some work that Bob has done on creating navigation bars that would supply breadcrumb navigation on each page. 2) The breadcrumb

Re: [Jgeneral] [Jprogramming] Report of the J Wiki Group Zoom Meeting of July 7, 2022

2022-07-09 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
In my last report on the J Wiki Meeting of July 7th, I incorrectly stated that Raul through that recursive debugging calls may be problematic. He contacted me with the following information to set the record straight: Raul: The issue I was thinking about was where it used to be that hitting a

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki Group Zoom Meeting of July 7, 2022

2022-07-08 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Raul Miller, Devon McCormick, Raghu Ranganathan, Bob Therriault 1) Chris and Raul completed the transfer of Essays, Books and some of the Help indices from the jsoftware site across to the current J wiki in early June. The navigation bar to access these materials can be

[Jgeneral] Report of the J Wiki meeting of June 2, 2022

2022-06-09 Thread 'robert therriault' via General
Present: Art Anger, Raul Miller, Devon McCormick, Bob Therriault 1) Chris Burke will update the mediaWiki software for the old wiki on the weekend of June 4th. 2) Security for the playground seems to be well sandboxed. The ability to download files may present an issue. Raul points out that

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