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by eggy 7y ago
It's why I am learning Zig instead of Rust really. I think it is more like C, and is a lot less to bite off. Probably a wise choice for Gleam, but I do like Haskell/Idris syntax too wrt to types.
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by eggy 7y ago
Erlang is the functional language, but the OTP (Open Telecom Platform)is the collection of Erlang libraries or middleware that give it its concurrency prowess. It runs on the BEAM, a VM for Erlang. It goes back to 1998 or thereabouts, and w
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by eggy 7y ago
I'm interested in Erlang, since I first heard about it when I wanted to write plugins or work on the Wings3D program back in 2003 or 2004. I chose playing with LFE over Elixir, because I prefer Lisp syntax to Ruby-like syntax, but limi
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by eggy 7y ago
I am back to learning Zig for the way it addresses some pitfalls in C, but really because it is so easy for cross-platform work. Compiling a program to a Windows exe on my 2011 iMac Pro and then running it on my Windows machine was so easy
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by eggy 7y ago
I think someone has translated this to J, but I am trying on my own to practice my J-fu by implementing it in my own way. Then I usually open it up to the J experts on the mailing list, and my learning takes off. There are some awesomely sm
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by eggy 7y ago
The right tool for the job. If you are building a huge website with input forms, videos, data collection, ML algorithms, yes then you wouldn't do the whole thing in APL or J even if you could. Python is big in ML because packages for w
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by eggy 7y ago
To some APL and J are the equivalent of C to assembler. It is not obfuscated, it is concise: brief but comprehensive, and easy to understand if you take the time to learn it like you would other PLs. I think Ken Iverson's "Notatio
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by eggy 7y ago
I think you're right. Aaron Hsu's work in APL is inspiring and awesome. The source code to his data parallel compiler hosted on the GPU is 17 lines of APL! Read the abstract to his paper here: https://scholarworks.iu.ed
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by eggy 7y ago
Yes J does attempt to be a concise notation like mathematical notation for working with concepts in a manageable way. Like mathematical notation it takes effort to learn the meanings of the symbols, however, once learned you require less bo
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by eggy 7y ago
I love J, APL and the array languages in general. I am always looking for exercises to practice my J skills. I found this article by Tyler Limkemann called "Modeling the COVID-19 Outbreak with J"[1]. I also follow tangentstorm and
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Cell towers attacked in UK is as conspiracy theory links 5G and coronavirus(usatoday.com)
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by eggy 7y ago
I will stay with Julia because although it gets touted as a general purpose language it's audience is predominantly in the sciences, and it is fast. The article mentions the program fine tuning itself which reminded me of genetic progr
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by eggy 7y ago
Arnold heard the avian flu say, "I'll be back..."
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by eggy 7y ago
I was happily supporting Zig/you at $5/month, but things got tight. I will be back on board next month! Keep up the great work Andy!
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by eggy 7y ago
I love anything that hooks me subject-wise to keep learning J. I always get charged to ply my J skills and learn from others. I tried to run a batch of simulations for x amount of days with the default number of people in the code as follow
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by eggy 7y ago
Yes, but confidence of detecting antigens becomes more difficult for some infections than others. And some viruses stay in your body like CMV. In the case of COVID-19, the virus does not remain, but the antigens do. The question is can the
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by eggy 7y ago
I had a 100 to 104.5 F fevers, chills, sore throat and upper respiratory track infection over the course of 4 days with symptoms persisting for over two weeks back in the last part of January. I was tested for flu and strep, and they came b
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by eggy 7y ago
Really, because two co-workers have told me they spent weekends trying to configure a printer and downgrading a graphics driver to get their graphics working again. Yes, they are engineers (mechanical, not software), but I have had my share
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by eggy 7y ago
Mark, I love all of your work. Well, except your Java stuff, but that was due to my bias against Java! I am going to buy this right away, and see if Hy ticks more boxes for me now. Looking forward to it.
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by eggy 7y ago
I get the gist of what you are saying about it being par for the course, but can you explain why a heading of 270 (West if 0 is North)would affect air worthiness? Is it something to due with true North vs. magnetic north deviations? Graspin
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by eggy 7y ago
Being a J programmer [1], the order or placement of ASCII characters does not bother me, so I think it's about familiarity, habit and ability to see past the syntax. [1] https://www.jsoftware.com/#/
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by eggy 7y ago
Reading Seveneves by Neal Stephenson may have inspired this thought, but how much change in the Moon's mass by shipping materials to Mars or Earth from the Moon would cause enough change in the Moon's orbit to affect Earth's
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by eggy 7y ago
Or Minix.
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by eggy 7y ago
I didn't bother registering to view the rest of the article, but am I right that it is screen time as the cause?
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by eggy 7y ago
I came upon uLisp over a few years ago, and was glad to see it show up for the ESP8266 chips. It makes programming these tiny controllers with WiFi enjoyable. Simple things like leaving the parameters blank in a WiFi connect function discon
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by eggy 7y ago
The author also has a uLisp to C converter and sensor library in uLisp. Very useful and fun!
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uLisp – ARM Assembler in Lisp(ulisp.com)
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An APL Machine [pdf](slac.stanford.edu)
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by eggy 7y ago
I downloaded it, but compiler design is not my area. I do like his talks and he champions Iverson's Notation as a Tool of Thought very well. I hope to read it over the holiday.
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by eggy 7y ago
Aaron Hsu, the author, is now a complete APL (Dyalog) advocate. I similarly have gone from Lisp to J, and now APL. I read the book "Mr. Babbage's Secret: The Tale of a Cypher and Apl". It is more of a history narrative meldin

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