Re: [Jchat] notional under, YAY!

2023-12-09 Thread Devon McCormick
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Re: [Jchat] Comparing characters

2022-12-10 Thread Devon McCormick
rintable character preceding the Σ (sigma) which is apparently the uppercase of the end-of-word sigma. On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 2:48 PM Devon McCormick wrote: > Raul's expression "<&(3:)" made me think of the endless complications > for character comparison once you inclu

Re: [Jchat] Comparing characters

2022-12-10 Thread Devon McCormick
>>> > >>> 0 > >>> > >>> Is this explained somewhere ? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >>> Jimmy > >>> -- > >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftw

Re: [Jchat] wishlist item (for plot)

2022-12-05 Thread Devon McCormick
messing with that aspect of > plot, recently. I should do some experiments before saying anything > further. > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 9:28 PM Devon McCormick wrote: > > > > Maybe for pedagogical purposes this "slow reveal"

Re: [Jchat] wishlist item (for plot)

2022-12-05 Thread Devon McCormick
d... wish list item. I've plenty of other things to keep me > busy, for now at least. > > FYI, > > -- > Raul > -- > For information about J forums see

Re: [Jchat] Fred Brooks

2022-11-18 Thread Devon McCormick
uot;it wasn't invented here" syndrome. It was a meeting I will never > forget. > > Condolences to Dr. Brooks and his family. > ------ > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] Open-Source Code Generator Is Very Good at Writing in C

2022-03-11 Thread Devon McCormick
-- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] [Jprogramming] Roger Hui - 1953 - 2021

2021-10-17 Thread Devon McCormick
is > > >>> last years should be a model to all. > > >>> > > >>> (Roger would have insisted that any comments go to chat) > > >>> ------

Re: [Jchat] Should I learn APL or J?

2021-10-06 Thread Devon McCormick
am looking at either learning APL or J. I am an > > inexperienced > > > > programmer. My reasoning is that I would like to learn an array > > language > > > > purely as an academic exercise (you can say, 'for fun'). I know this > > is a > > > > J forum, so i assume its going to be biased, but is th

Re: [Jchat] Two Mac/Linux Questions

2021-09-03 Thread Devon McCormick
> > > > > Thanks to any and all. > > > > -- > > > > John D. Baker > > > > bakerj...@gmail.com > > > > > -- > > > > For information about J forums see > http://www

Re: [Jchat] Now it can be told!

2021-08-20 Thread Devon McCormick
han 13 years, #4 in the list laid empty, defying the collective > > knowledge and search abilities of the J community. I have finally > pleaded > > with Henry Rich to tell us who the gentleman is. Thank you Henry. > > -- > > For information about J forums s

Re: [Jchat] Video chat nerd-out session?

2021-06-02 Thread Devon McCormick
ting is 391680 > > > > NB this meeting is recorded automatically. > > > > >To present at future BAA Webinars please contact > eve...@britishaplassociation.org . > > > > Kind regards, > > The British APL Association > > > > >This email was sent

Re: [Jchat] Video chat nerd-out session?

2021-06-02 Thread Devon McCormick
We usually go on for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 8:30 PM Devon McCormick wrote: > Feel free to drop in late as that's often when the discussion is more free > form. > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 7:35 PM ethiejiesa via Chat > wrote: > >> Devon McCormick wrote:

Re: [Jchat] Video chat nerd-out session?

2021-06-02 Thread Devon McCormick
Feel free to drop in late as that's often when the discussion is more free form. On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 7:35 PM ethiejiesa via Chat wrote: > Devon McCormick wrote: > > The NYCJUG meeting every month provides an opportunity to do that: > > https://www.meetup.com/J-Dynamic-Functio

Re: [Jchat] Video chat nerd-out session?

2021-06-02 Thread Devon McCormick
ng nutters. > > Anyway, hope you all are well. > > Cheers, > -- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] Brief mention of J in my article

2021-04-26 Thread Devon McCormick
The graphs are very nice. Were they done in J? On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 12:33 AM Devon McCormick wrote: > Starting on page 60. > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 11:53 PM HH PackRat wrote: > >> The April 2021 issue of Cycles Magazine, published by the FSC >> (Foundation

Re: [Jchat] Brief mention of J in my article

2021-04-26 Thread Devon McCormick
es/Vol49-No3-2021/> > > I hope you find it interesting. > > Harvey > -- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >

[Jchat] Grammar nerd heaven: 8 parts of speech?

2021-04-22 Thread Devon McCormick
According to this - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/comma-queen/grammar-nerd-heaven - the number of parts of speech said to be in English have ranged from two to 33. -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant

Re: [Jchat] Chain Reaction

2021-04-06 Thread Devon McCormick
your description. > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 8:17 PM Devon McCormick wrote: > > > My home-made parallelization routines spin off multiple copies of J, not > > using fork explicitly, but it does give significant performance > > improvement. It's very simple but works well e

Re: [Jchat] Chain Reaction

2021-04-06 Thread Devon McCormick
;> to > > >> > be a member of the staff operating the B6700, he told me that one of > the > > >> > most stressful times ever at work was when the B6700 suddenly kept > > >> crashing > > >> > and crashing for a few days, even missing a payroll deadline. The > staff

Re: [Jchat] c.l.a

2021-01-21 Thread Devon McCormick
--- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ------ > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] d3 dashboard

2020-11-07 Thread Devon McCormick
V/MWSUG-2014-DV09.pdf > https://observablehq.com/@sanderevers/svg-transformations > > https://talk.observablehq.com/t/i-want-to-learn-d3-i-don-t-want-to-learn-observable-is-that-ok/1957/6 > > Thanks, > > (B=) > ------ &

Re: [Jchat] Notation for programming language specification

2020-10-02 Thread Devon McCormick
e syntactic types of the results of J's adverbs and > conjunctions. > > Still... you could specify an informative subset of J's grammar in > redex, by [falsely] assuming that adverbs and conjunctions always > produce verbs. > > I hope this helps, > > -- > Raul > > On Thu,

[Jchat] Notation for programming language specification

2020-10-01 Thread Devon McCormick
nce 1978" paper (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3386319) where they describe a parser model using APL. This is an example of using APL to describe a PL. I would be interested in seeing a language like C described this way. Does anyone have an example like this? -- Devon McCormick, CFA Qua

Re: [Jchat] Software code smell

2020-09-26 Thread Devon McCormick
d, maybe not... > > - joey > ------ > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] aplcart.info

2020-06-29 Thread Devon McCormick
nar > > www.aplcart.info > > > > 2 Jul '20 16:00 BST > > The British APL Association is inviting you to a scheduled Webinar. > > > > Join the Webinar https://zoom.us/j/858532665 > > -- > > For in

Re: [Jchat] programming heavy metal

2020-04-06 Thread Devon McCormick
s.htm > >>> >> >> >> -- John D. Baker bakerj...@gmail.com >> > ------ > >> >> For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > -- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > -- > Robert Bernecky > Snake Island Research Inc > 18 Fifth Street > Ward's Island > Toronto, Ontario M5J 2B9 > > berne...@snakeisland.com > tel: +1 416 203 0854 > text/cell: +1 416 996 4286 > > > > -- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] COBOL Programmers Needed!

2020-04-06 Thread Devon McCormick
eding COBOL > >>> programmers. > >> -- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > > > > > > -- > > John D. Baker > > bakerj...@gmail.com > > --

Re: [Jchat] COBOL Programmers Needed!

2020-04-06 Thread Devon McCormick
made no secrets > about the inflexibility of our legacy technology" > > Video: https://youtu.be/HSVgHlSTPYQ > > Skip Cave > Cave Consulting LLC > ------ > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftwar

Re: [Jchat] J "like-wow"s?

2020-03-15 Thread Devon McCormick
(Somewhere, I've still got one for APL from > > eons ago.) > > -- > Nollaig MacKenzie > pgp key C6E9845A > ------ > For information

Re: [Jchat] J "like-wow"s?

2020-03-15 Thread Devon McCormick
The "Array Thinking" page is at https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Array_Thinking but it still needs some work on formatting. On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 12:12 PM Devon McCormick wrote: > Yes - on the "Array Thinking" page I referred to a similar note you sent a > w

Re: [Jchat] J "like-wow"s?

2020-03-15 Thread Devon McCormick
IBM (1960-1980) > section) and the third paragraph of Alan Perlis's "*APL is more French than > English*" <https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis78.htm>. > > > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 12:38 AM Devon McCormick > wrote: > > > There's this (adapted from my

Re: [Jchat] J "like-wow"s?

2020-03-15 Thread Devon McCormick
d now she > > > loves that! > > > > > > So I want to ask, could y'all suggest a list of maybe a dozen favorite > > > J one-liners, that I could send too? > > > > > > (Somewhere, I've still got one for APL from eons ago.) > > > > > > I know you're busy. Thanks in advance. &

Re: [Jchat] PMs (private messages)

2020-03-14 Thread Devon McCormick
hanks, > > -- > (B=) <-my sig > Brian Schott > -- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2020-01-31 Thread Devon McCormick
l) exact information in one's > possession, the problem is far from trivial. Then again, in principle > (that is, if one does the homework properly), considering including short > positions in one's portfolio cannot hurt. > > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 8:03 PM Devon McCor

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2020-01-31 Thread Devon McCormick
ciple > (that is, if one does the homework properly), considering including short > positions in one's portfolio cannot hurt. > > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 8:03 PM Devon McCormick > wrote: > > > > Yes, I lost a bit dumping it when it started to take off. > > > > &

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2020-01-30 Thread Devon McCormick
020, at 7:22 PM, Jose Mario Quintana < > jose.mario.quint...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Full disclosure: I have a short position on Tesla. > > > > I trust you dumped your short position in a timely fashion: > > > > July 25 $222.82; today $640.81

Re: [Jchat] help update VideoInstructionInJ

2020-01-14 Thread Devon McCormick
--- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] common array patterns?

2020-01-14 Thread Devon McCormick
3 or above? > > -Michal > ------ > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] [Jprogramming] J 9.01 under emacs has no indent prompt

2020-01-10 Thread Devon McCormick
10, 2020 at 2:13 PM Raul Miller wrote: > How are you running J in emacs? > > For example, are you using M-x shell and then running jconsole at that > prompt? > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 12:44 PM Devon McCormick > wrote:

Re: [Jchat] [Jprogramming] J 9.01 under emacs has no indent prompt

2020-01-10 Thread Devon McCormick
led, in emacs? > > Or are you using something generic? > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 11:26 AM Devon McCormick > wrote: > > > > Hi - I just installed J 9.01 and am running the console version under > emacs > > as I've done for years

Re: [Jchat] What product(s) do you use to distribute J?

2019-11-15 Thread Devon McCormick
see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] the advantage of J

2019-09-27 Thread Devon McCormick
Generally speaking, spaces indicate lower priority operations. They > are not as strict as parenthesis, but they are still a hint. > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 3:47 PM Devon McCormick > wrote: > > Why do you think the thing to right of &quo

[Jchat] The secret life of Ken

2019-09-27 Thread Devon McCormick
This just came to my inbox: During the 1970’s, our partnership’s team did extensive due diligence on Nucor, a company just entering the mini-mill steel business. We had many meetings with Ken Iverson and Sam Siegel, the corporation’s CEO and CFO. Who knew? -- Devon McCormick, CFA

Re: [Jchat] the advantage of J

2019-09-27 Thread Devon McCormick
gt; And as the comments section shows, even a professional mathematician > > weighing in on the matter wasn’t enough to bring the two sides together.” > > > > > > > > R.E. Boss > > -- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftwa

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2019-09-04 Thread Devon McCormick
that influence S’s evolution might be > unknown, > > To include everything that is known about S in A may make the mathematics > analytically or computationally intractable. > > > > > 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 > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] hi res j logo(s)?

2019-08-13 Thread Devon McCormick
hannel for my J videos... > -- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantita

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2019-08-11 Thread Devon McCormick
g my point of view is this: > > If we constrain ourselves to literal interpretations of the various > published forms of the efficient market hypothesis, and limit > ourselves to statement which are observably correct, then it's very > difficult, and perhaps impossible, to find anything useful

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2019-08-10 Thread Devon McCormick
better did not > have > >>> enough conviction to short the S in any considerable amount > before the > >>> event occurred. > >> -- > >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > &

Re: [Jchat] What does "J" mean?

2019-08-06 Thread Devon McCormick
(quite some time ago) that J is the next letter after H and I (Hui > & > > Iverson). > > It's one of the stories I believe in. > > > > > > R.E. Boss > > > > > > > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > > > Van: Chat Namens Devon > >

Re: [Jchat] What does "J" mean?

2019-08-06 Thread Devon McCormick
ime ago) that J is the next letter after H and I (Hui > & > > Iverson). > > It's one of the stories I believe in. > > > > > > R.E. Boss > > > > > > > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > > > Van: Chat Namens Devon > > > McC

Re: [Jchat] What does "J" mean?

2019-08-05 Thread Devon McCormick
o the language. > > Harvey > -- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2019-08-02 Thread Devon McCormick
--- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] The shrinking J holders

2019-07-25 Thread Devon McCormick
; >> -- > > >> 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 > > > -- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2019-07-25 Thread Devon McCormick
Actually, "Ponzi scheme" is inaccurate - it's more of an accounting scam. Full disclosure: I have a short position on Tesla. On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 1:23 PM Devon McCormick wrote: > Funny you should mention Buffet when Berkshire Hathaway has lately been > under-performing th

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2019-07-25 Thread Devon McCormick
:20 PM Raul Miller wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 1:16 PM Devon McCormick > wrote: > > In the Wikipedia article on Bill Miller, it says "[his fund's] > ...after-fee > > You've heard of Warren Buffett, though? > > Or, for that matter Elon

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2019-07-25 Thread Devon McCormick
ak would not have been that long. On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 1:04 PM Devon McCormick wrote: > EMH is a model and all models are wrong but some of them are useful. I > seriously doubt EMH is being taught as gospel anywhere but if it were so > obviously wrong, we would see lots of people be

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2019-07-25 Thread Devon McCormick
). On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 12:48 PM Raul Miller wrote: > https://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.2284.pdf > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 12:30 PM Devon McCormick > wrote: > > I think Dan Bron sent this paper to the forum a few years ago. The > author > > errs in fixating on the &quo

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2019-07-25 Thread Devon McCormick
roughly paraphrased: markets > can be efficient on small problems, but there's exponential growth in > complexity over time, which quickly defeats any such advantages. > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > ------ &

Re: [Jchat] Introducing J to Financial & Actuarial Students

2019-07-22 Thread Devon McCormick
he simplest way a finance or > actuarial user could develop a professional quality gui. > -- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, C

Re: [Jchat] TABULA announcement and request

2019-06-07 Thread Devon McCormick
bobtherriault/j901/addons/math/tabula│ > ├┼┤ > │TPUU│/users/bobtherriault/j901/addons/math/uu│ > └┴┘ > > > On Jun 7, 2019, at 1:11 PM, Ian Clark wrote: > > > > Please use pacman to upgrade math/uu to 2.1.23 > &

Re: [Jchat] Programming languages: Don't bother learning these ones in 2019 | ZDNet

2019-04-20 Thread Devon McCormick
rmation about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] Message from Dan Bron

2018-10-11 Thread Devon McCormick
gt; the rest of the gang, I'd appreciate it. > > Cheers, bob > -- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant --

Re: [Jchat] IEEE Top programming languages 2018

2018-08-04 Thread Devon McCormick
; > https://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/the-2018-top-programming-languages > ------ > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant --

Re: [Jchat] How close is J to APL?

2018-06-17 Thread Devon McCormick
-- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> >>> ------ >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > > -- > Robert Bernecky > Snake Island Research Inc > 18 Fifth Street > Ward's Island > Toronto, Ontario M5J 2B9 > > berne...@snakeisland.com > tel: +1 416 203 0854 > text/cell: +1 416 996 4286 > > > -- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] How close is J to APL?

2018-06-16 Thread Devon McCormick
t; Speaking of which, we don't yet have a J entry for > > > > > >> http://rosettacode.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar > > > > > > > > > > > > There is a box on that page stating: > > > > > &

Re: [Jchat] J, APL, or calendars?

2018-06-01 Thread Devon McCormick
oes in handling other scales: weight, time(<1 day), > distance, frequency, etc. > And if Jacoby has developed a system with an unfamiliar role for the 0 and > which is grossly neglected since 1986, as he admits, he should try to find > better arguments to make his system accepted, than the age of Christ. > > > R.E. Boss > -

Re: [Jchat] How close is J to APL?

2018-05-17 Thread Devon McCormick
I only just read Ian's challenge after I made my post but - challenge accepted! On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 1:35 AM, Devon McCormick <devon...@gmail.com> wrote: > How similar are both APL and J? > - Compared to almost every other computer language, they are nearly > identical. > &

Re: [Jchat] How close is J to APL?

2018-05-17 Thread Devon McCormick
estions are deemed silly such as a toddler might ask. > > Regards, > > Jane the novice of J > > > > > ------ > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- Devon McCor

Re: [Jchat] Fine art, the Riemann hypothesis, and J

2018-05-08 Thread Devon McCormick
ather than half of them. > > > > I hope this helps, > > > > -- > > Raul > > > > > > > -- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] What do programmers mean by: variable, constant, function, array, etc?

2018-03-08 Thread Devon McCormick
gt; try > >> > many ways to describe them until one of them sticks. Maybe one of the > >> > descriptions will work with students or other people. But I suspect > that > >> > few people realize that things like differentiation is really > different >

Re: [Jchat] What do programmers mean by: variable, constant, function, array, etc?

2018-03-07 Thread Devon McCormick
ut for you? > > >> > > > >> > I have an operational need for a weblink to a good clear published > > free > > >> > authoritative text. To avoid cluttering this thread, please don't > > offer > > >> > your own definitions of the above terms here (although of course I'd > > be > > >> > frightfully interested to hear them one day.) > > >> > > > -- > > >> > 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 > > -- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > -- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] Favorite blog shows global sea level rise per decade isoclines.

2018-03-07 Thread Devon McCormick
--- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ------ > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Cons

Re: [Jchat] What do programmers mean by: variable, constant, function, array, etc?

2018-03-07 Thread Devon McCormick
ne" wishes to promote. > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Devon McCormick <devon...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > My favorite APL test was Sandra Pakin's reference manual: most APL > > primitives were defined abstractly on one page, then examples of usage > were > &g

Re: [Jchat] Where is J going ?

2018-03-05 Thread Devon McCormick
od idea, but given the > current situation it feels like an admission of defeat. > > > Maybe there is no solution for J. Perhaps the timing is wrong, and it must > lie dormant, biding it's time before one day in the future rising up again, > in a new form. All we can do now is beli

Re: [Jchat] Valuable J resources beyond JSoftware.com

2017-03-29 Thread Devon McCormick
Ric > Sherlock > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 11:09 PM > To: Chat JForum > Subject: Re: [Jchat] Valuable J resources beyond JSoftware.com > > There are some interesting questions and answers on StackOverflow > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/?tagnames=j &g

Re: [Jchat] Valuable J resources beyond JSoftware.com

2017-03-28 Thread Devon McCormick
Forums for questions and discussions related to the J ecosystem > > - Success stories where and how J is being used > > > > While "J Programming Language" can be used as a search term it seems that > > this could potentially be missing a lot of great content available. > > > > Than

Re: [Jchat] Saving Data for Future Use

2016-03-27 Thread Devon McCormick
; > stored/retrieved so I do not have to assemble them each time I want to > > manipulate them again after starting a new session? > > > > Thank you. > > Rodney Nicholson. > > -- > > For information about J

Re: [Jchat] Evaluating investment strategies with J

2016-01-09 Thread Devon McCormick
t; 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 > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] J and rough grained parallel computation

2015-12-29 Thread Devon McCormick
re.com/jwiki/MarshallLochbaum/Parallelize? > > If so, can you give any impressions of its use? > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > -- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >

Re: [Jchat] missed opportunities

2015-11-05 Thread Devon McCormick
>From what little I know of it, K does amazing things w/very little code. On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Raul Miller <rauldmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Devon McCormick <devon...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm not sure wh

Re: [Jchat] missed opportunities

2015-11-05 Thread Devon McCormick
ot; > > means. > > Another option involves a one dimensional array of characters, and > then working with indices and corresponding sequence lengths in that > array... > > But it's hard to say anything useful about an unknown problem. > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > -- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] missed opportunities

2015-11-02 Thread Devon McCormick
on tablets? > > I sometimes feel like Charlie Brown hoping for the most simple things. > ------ > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA Quantitative Consultant -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] Interesting talk "How did we end up Here?"

2015-09-27 Thread Devon McCormick
> directions if people hadn't bought into those ideas. (But at this > > point, it has turned into a multi-billion dollar industry, so it's not > > going away. And there are some applications where the flaws are not > > all that important.) > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- >

Re: [Jchat] Interesting talk "How did we end up Here?"

2015-09-27 Thread Devon McCormick
e team? The problem with large > teams is coordination of many people. I would think that if anything array > programming groups would be smaller. > On Sep 27, 2015 11:41 AM, "Devon McCormick" <devon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > At a Kdb talk I attended recently, Fi

Re: [Jchat] Interesting talk "How did we end up Here?"

2015-09-25 Thread Devon McCormick
> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Devon McCormick, CFA -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] What is Code?

2015-06-15 Thread Devon McCormick
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Re: [Jchat] homeoteleuton

2015-05-15 Thread Devon McCormick
, -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- Devon McCormick, CFA -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jchat] Hamlet's number

2015-05-05 Thread Devon McCormick
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Re: [Jchat] What other languages do you use and why?

2015-04-22 Thread Devon McCormick
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Re: [Jchat] 13 : 'x+ y'

2015-04-14 Thread Devon McCormick
1 : 'm+ y' Something for the todo list... Thanks, -- Raul -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- Devon McCormick, CFA

Re: [Jchat] 13 : 'x+ y'

2015-04-14 Thread Devon McCormick
/openj/core/blob/master/pv.c Converting that from C back into J would probably be a good exercise in understanding how it works. Thanks, -- Raul On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Devon McCormick devon...@gmail.com wrote: Does moving it into user space mean there would be something like

Re: [Jchat] strong typing

2015-04-12 Thread Devon McCormick
of calculation? -- Raul On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Devon McCormick devon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bob - this sounds interesting but why would Meter*Gram be forbidden? If I'm calculating Newtons, I want Kg * M/s^2, don't I? Regards, Devon On Sat, Apr 11

Re: [Jchat] strong typing

2015-04-11 Thread Devon McCormick
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Re: [Jchat] jconsole / plot viewing quick tip (windows)

2015-04-11 Thread Devon McCormick
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Re: [Jchat] Type theory terminology

2015-04-06 Thread Devon McCormick
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Re: [Jchat] I think people in this forum would agree

2015-04-02 Thread Devon McCormick
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Re: [Jchat] I think people in this forum would agree

2015-04-02 Thread Devon McCormick
/ -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm -- Devon McCormick, CFA

Re: [Jchat] Common Core Math Fact families

2015-01-14 Thread Devon McCormick
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Re: [Jchat] [Jprogramming] NYCJUG 18:30 9/9/2014, Empire State Building NYC

2014-12-07 Thread Devon McCormick
of Wales pub quiz in Highgate, London on Tuesdays, but have a good one anyway! Mike On 06/12/2014 15:26, Devon McCormick wrote: We'll be wrapping up our 10th year of meetings with our meeting this Tuesday. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http

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