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2011.
by eggy 12y ago
Great news and work. Does this mean with C++, Emscripten and ionmonkey we can do serious array work on the web? I was playing with Dart a year ago for the very reason of having SIMD available for speedups, but Dart syntax was too 'Java
2012.
by eggy 12y ago
How does this compare to Euterpea [1] another Haskell-based music development DSL that can do real-time? It is Haskore and HasSound based, not Supercollider. I couldn't make the comparison after watching most of the video for Vivid. [1
2013.
by eggy 12y ago
I'd also be a bit skeptical about their structural integrity. Composites usually have dimensional strength with weaves going in orthogonal and diagonal to each other. However, any holes, or stress cracks would make their recycled use f
2014.
by eggy 12y ago
I would have to agree with the ease of loading vanilla windows. I've done it quite easily with both an Alienware 14 (2013) and a Sony Vaio that is 4 years old. I downloaded the proper copy of Windows from the MS site, which was Win 7 U
2015.
by eggy 12y ago
I am learning J for about a year now, and I will try out the examples in it to see how it goes. Memory-mapped files, and quick array operations. It is APL based, and J has been around since the 80s, and is open source. Wes McKinney seems to
2016.
by eggy 12y ago
J is another APL variant using ASCII instead of special symbols. You can easily label or rename any function to make it more readable, but it goes against the idea of learning the symbols for conciseness ala mathematical symbols. There is a
2017.
by eggy 12y ago
MINERVA failed to land, but Hayabusa made a series of soft landings on to the asteroid in 2005, and collected samples that were returned to Earth. Pretty amazing in its own right and time.
2018.
by eggy 12y ago
It's not formal, but it is helpful to watch these series of videos by Martin Saurer on J: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSJpJt3c11c It goes form solving some Euler problems to a full-blown web app in J.
2019.
by eggy 12y ago
The reason k, q or other array languages like J (which I use) help, not teach, people to solve novel problems is that they give you abstractions to quickly play with in order to tackle novel problems. My take on this whole thing is that the
2020.
by eggy 12y ago
There are aliases built-in and you can define your own. Drop is built-in. To borrow an example above: 1 drop 1 2 3 4 5 NB. this is how to comment 2 3 4 5 NB. drop is }. in J Exactly how did it 'flop'? P
2021.
by eggy 12y ago
I have been toying with J for the past few years, and I think you only appreciate it when you see it as equivalent to mathematical notation, alien at first, but succinct and very useable when you know what the symbols mean. See Iverson&#x27
2022.
by eggy 12y ago
I have been using the Echo Livescribe pen for 4 years now, and it has saved me on many occasions. I taught myself Quickscript before I ever had the pen, but because of the lack of OCR for it on the pen, I don't really use it much. htt
2023.
by eggy 12y ago
If you are claiming it is logical because it is an argument from analogy, even if it is a false analogy, then technically I would have to agree to that. My comment about it being emotional is that when an argument from analogy is made betwe
2024.
by eggy 12y ago
He makes the assertion that slavery (pg 71, section 3), where somebody rents you out to another, and wage labor, where you rent yourself out are an equivalent arrangement. This is an emotional appeal, rather than a logical one, and this typ
2025.
by eggy 12y ago
I thought it was clear. I would start with 1, not 0 for the first example of the derivation of Natural numbers via succession or the related Peano axiom. I know some texts start with 1 and others 0, but given counting most likely started wi
2026.
by eggy 12y ago
I'll stick with my windows tablet and Sketchbook Pro. It already has compass, ruler, French curve and perspective available with the stylus or my finger. The whole point of an iPad is portability, not add-on gadgets. The software inter
2027.
by eggy 12y ago
What's the difference? I mean, Shen is ported to JS, and doesn't require Node. Can it play with JS like KL? Shen is pretty cool with a built-in, functional Prolog too, and static typing you can turn on or off.