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I see your point. You dream crushing bastard. :) For no reason whatsoever here is a link to a guy building a Korean style wooden house by hand without using na

I see your point. You dream crushing bastard. :) For no reason whatsoever here is a link to a guy building a Korean style wooden house by hand without using nails: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvsvMzgiq6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvsvMzgiq6s What are "real problems" anyway? Sigh. You're right, I know you're right. Somehow this field is losing appeal over time. I'm going for a walk.

mlochbaum 5y ago
> Somehow this field is losing appeal over time. Not true, at all! Since 2010 or so, the APL family has only improved its reputation and grown in popularity. I listed some developments of the past two years at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28930064 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28930064. Now, it's not much relative to the huge growth of array frameworks like TensorFlow with more mainstream language design, but it is definitely not losing appeal.
- recuter 5y ago
  Oh no, Marshall, I was being far more despondent and was referring to programming as a whole. Thank you very much for your efforts on BQN. Speaking of TensorFlow, I was looking at tinygrad the other day: https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/blob/master/tinygrad/tensor.py https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/blob/master/tinygrad/tens... Very tempted to port it to BQN. I could be wrong but I bet it would shine for that. You could print the whole thing on a t-shirt.
  - mlochbaum 5y ago
    Oh, thanks for clarifying, since it occurred to me that you might mean just the appeal to you, but not that you meant the field of programming! I'm no NN expert, but tinygrad looks very approachable in BQN. You might be interested in some other initial work along those lines: https://github.com/loovjo/BQN-autograd https://github.com/loovjo/BQN-autograd with automatic differentiation, and the smaller https://github.com/bddean/BQNprop https://github.com/bddean/BQNprop using backprop.
hvs 5y ago
TBF, that guy isn't doing it for the fun of it (OK, partly for the fun of it) but because Mr. Chickadee is a content creator. Sure, it's a lifestyle choice, but he also makes his living do it. I love his channel, but his lifestyle is as much a product of our modern world as the Java programming language is.

mlochbaum 5y ago

> Somehow this field is losing appeal over time. Not true, at all! Since 2010 or so, the APL family has only improved its reputation and grown in popularity. I listed some developments of the past two years at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28930064 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28930064. Now, it's not much relative to the huge growth of array frameworks like TensorFlow with more mainstream language design, but it is definitely not losing appeal.

recuter 5y ago
Oh no, Marshall, I was being far more despondent and was referring to programming as a whole. Thank you very much for your efforts on BQN. Speaking of TensorFlow, I was looking at tinygrad the other day: https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/blob/master/tinygrad/tensor.py https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/blob/master/tinygrad/tens... Very tempted to port it to BQN. I could be wrong but I bet it would shine for that. You could print the whole thing on a t-shirt.
- mlochbaum 5y ago
  Oh, thanks for clarifying, since it occurred to me that you might mean just the appeal to you, but not that you meant the field of programming! I'm no NN expert, but tinygrad looks very approachable in BQN. You might be interested in some other initial work along those lines: https://github.com/loovjo/BQN-autograd https://github.com/loovjo/BQN-autograd with automatic differentiation, and the smaller https://github.com/bddean/BQNprop https://github.com/bddean/BQNprop using backprop.

hvs 5y ago

TBF, that guy isn't doing it for the fun of it (OK, partly for the fun of it) but because Mr. Chickadee is a content creator. Sure, it's a lifestyle choice, but he also makes his living do it. I love his channel, but his lifestyle is as much a product of our modern world as the Java programming language is.