Thanks, Dan. I wanted to add something gnomic, but you've said it all
better than I could.
Just one thing I'll dispute: I didn't "lead" the "Accessible Dictionary"
project: I merely made it my self-appointed task to bring up the trailing
edge. Because I can't think of anything more valuable for th
Thanks Raul. Yes, jhs minesweeper, solitaire, etc would also be examples.
It's not well defined what I'm looking for. I'm perhaps spoiled by being
able to typically find an example application along the lines of something
I'm building. I'm not building games, web frameworks, plotting engines, or
i
Note that J includes things that might be considered applications.
'plot' and 'viewmat' come to mind.
FYI,
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Raul
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Joe Bogner wrote:
> I also didn't know that NuVoc existed. The backtick example is structured
> in a way that clicks with my brain. I particularly
I also didn't know that NuVoc existed. The backtick example is structured
in a way that clicks with my brain. I particularly like the uses simple &
advanced.
Let me preface my next comment with the following - overall I think the J
documentation is very good. I am immensely grateful for all the wo
That looks quite good. I was thinking there could be a stub for each page
under /help, and the help pages would add that stub at the bottom. Even if the
stub is currently empty, there would be an obvious way to add to the vocabulary.
Even though NuVoc looks good, few people know it exists.
-
We had an initiative like this a few years back, led by Ian Clark:
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NuVoc
Rather than starting afresh, I recommend we reinvigorate that project, since it
already has some content, and some thought went into its structure.
I think where it stalled, the last time, w
I have had similar thoughts but not enough motivation to address many
of the issues.
That said, I did manage to throw together (an earlier draft of) this
page, back around then:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank_(J_programming_language)
If we could get a few hundred people to each write a page, a
A slightly different issue with vocabulary entries is that some of them are
written at an Iverson/Hui PHD student reading level, and while the reader might
be advised to spend some time with an interactive J session to better
understand the content, the reader may wish to prioritize his time dif
Once in a undergraduate linear algebra class the prof corrected a student
by saying, "you mean 'the' instead of 'a'". He didn't make a big deal of
it but a light bulb turned on in my head.
My most recent encounter of this was when someone used "the" precisely and
clearly. I asked him whether he
I had a teacher who would not say "x and y are equal" because the plural "are"
implies they are NOT equal. He would say "If x is a number and y is a number
..." rather then "If x and y are numbers ... " when he wanted to allow the
possibility that x is y. Some of us saw that by enforcing this
I did one casual test on
http://jsoftware.2058.n7.nabble.com/J-on-Julia-benchmark-td53833.html.
For the tests in the link above, the speed is at the same league with python.
Note that in the post the last test of matrix multiplication was unfair since
all other languages called into LAPACK excep
Ouch..
I had meant to say a bit more about ambiguities, but my touchpad acted
in a way that sent the message within a small fraction of a second
from when I selected it to edit. That was not my original intent, at
least in the sense of how my personal taste would have expressed that
intent.
Never
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Henry Rich wrote:
> My view of ambiguities is less tolerant. Yes, English is a wonderful
> language for expressing ambiguities, but it is not wonderful when you are
> trying to avoid ambiguities. Legal writing & government regulations are so
> ugly because that's
My view of ambiguities is less tolerant. Yes, English is a wonderful
language for expressing ambiguities, but it is not wonderful when you
are trying to avoid ambiguities. Legal writing & government regulations
are so ugly because that's the kind of English you are forced to use to
say exactl
If we think of this in J terms, we might treat "more" as a verb such as
more=: >
Then your first sentence becomes a question about 3 > ,2 which has an
answer which matches ,1.
Your second sentence would involve more work to translate to J. I
could translate it as
(3 > $0) +. 3 > 4 1
... but
You are right about vert_boss being incorrect, but one can use the monad (;) .
Adding a (_) will help:
vert1 =: [:> ;"_1 &.>/
vert2 =: [:> ;"_1 L:0 _1/
vert1 t
++-+
|Boss|3|
++-+
|Adam|1|
++-+
|John|4|
++-+
vert2 x NB. x from
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essay
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