Skip, I have sent in a invite to you at your consulting email.
Cheers, bob > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "'Skip Cave' via Programming" <programm...@jsoftware.com> > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] [Jgeneral] Report of the J wiki meeting of > December 14th, 2023 > Date: December 27, 2023 at 22:23:41 PST > To: gene...@jsoftware.com > Cc: programming <programm...@jsoftware.com> > Reply-To: programm...@jsoftware.com > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
