

The Array Cast
The Array Cast
We explore the Array Languages of APL, J, k, q and offshoots. If you are Array Language curious, this is the podcast for you. Occasionally we may dive into the weeds, but most of the time we try to stay accessible to the general listener.
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Apr 29, 2023 • 1h 20min
Fold and Scan
Array Cast - April 28, 2023 Show NotesThanks to Bob Therriault, Marshall Lochbaum, and Adám Brudzewsky for gathering these links:[01] 00:01:35 J903 on iOS https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Guides/iOS J9.5 https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation#J9.5_BETA m. Modular arithmetic https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/mdot[02] 00:02:53 Suggestions for Stephen's book SJT@5jt.com[03] 00:06:31 Rich's Problem Solving video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O73HYH0p8eo[04] 00:07:49 Henry Rich Fold Episode https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode48-henry-rich Kadane's Algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_subarray_problem[05] 00:11:20 J Under (Dual) Conjunction https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/ampdot Fold in q https://code.kx.com/q/ref/accumulators/#while Fold in BQN https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/fold.html Fold(Reduce) in APL https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Reduce Fold in J https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/fcap[06] 00:15:07 Taylor Series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_series[07] 00:22:10 J Prefixes https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/bslash J Suffixes https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/bslashdot[08] 00:28:02 q Scan Iterator https://code.kx.com/q/ref/iterators/[09] 00:36:49 Tom McGuire's Kadane Tutorial https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Kadane_Algorithm;_J_Tutorial Will Gajate's J-k Fold equivalents https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/User:Will_Gajate/FoldVariants[10] 00:46:09 Guy Steele's Fortress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language)[11] 00:47:53 Special Combinations in J https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/SpecialCombinations Thunks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunk[12] 00:50:02 Apex https://www.snakeisland.com/techrpt.pdf Futhark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futhark_(programming_language) BQN vs. C https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/versusc.html[13] 00:53:05 Scan in q https://code.kx.com/q/ref/over/ Scan in BQN https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/scan.html Scan in APL https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Scan[14] 01:07:33 Cut in J https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/semidot[15] 01:14:25 Big O notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation[16] 01:17:00 Contact AT ArrayCast DOT Com[17] 01:17:30 Associative Functions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative_property[18] 01:19:00 Jay Kadane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Kadane

Apr 15, 2023 • 1h 5min
Naming is Hard
Array Cast - April 14, 2023 Show NotesThanks to Bob Therriault and Adám Brudzewsky for gathering these links:[01] 00:01:37 APLSeeds 2023: https://dyalog.tv/APLSeeds23 APL Germany Spring meeting: https://apl-germany.de/apl-germany-fruehjahrstagung-2023/ APL Show Episode "Change the Way You Think - Part 1": https://apl.show/2023/03/09/Reaction-to-Change-the-way-you-write-Change-the-way-you-think-part-1.html APL Show Episode "Change the Way You Think - Part 2": https://apl.show/2023/03/30/Reaction-to-Change-the-way-you-write-Change-the-way-you-think-part-2.html Fold and Other Conjunctions ArrayCast Episode: https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode50-fold[02] 00:10:05 Perlis "A programming language is low level when it demands attention to the irrelevant" https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/alan_perlis_177161[03] 00:11:25 Smalltalk Programming Language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk Lisp Programming Language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language) Haskell Programming Language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell[04] 00:21:30 J forums: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Forums[05] 00:35:40 J Incunabulum: https://code.jsoftware.com//wiki/Essays/Incunabulum Inuit Number System: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-number-system-invented-by-inuit-schoolchildren-will-make-its-silicon-valley-debut/[06] 00:39:10 Roman Numerals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals A History of Mathematical Notations: https://www.amazon.com/History-Mathematical-Notations-Dover-Mathematics/dp/0486677664[07] 00:43:10 Danish Vigesimal System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_(linguistics)#20:_vigesimal[08] 00:44:20 Glyphs in the Array Languages: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Glyph[09] 00:48:20 Dyalog APL Mix: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Mix Dyalog APL Split: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Split J Less Than: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/lt#dyadic J Lesser of: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/ltdot#dyadic[10] 00:50:53 Dyalog APL Dyadic Transpose: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Transpose BQN Dyadic Transpose: https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/transpose.html#reorder-axeshttps://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/barco#dyadic J Dyadic Transpose: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/barco#dyadic Transpose ArrayCast Episode: https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode29-transpose[11] 00:54:22 Chris Pearson's Post "We Need to Talk about Group": https://gist.github.com/chrispsn/3450fe6172a7cc441d0819379ed3a32a[12] 00:57:21 Contact AT ArrayCast DOT Com[13] 01:02:05 Combinators in BQN: https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/tutorial/combinator.html[14] 01:03:33 Stephen's Blog Post: https://www.5jt.com/the-rest-is-silence

Apr 1, 2023 • 1h 37min
Fold and Other Functional Conjunctions
Array Cast - March 31, 2023 Show NotesThanks to Bob Therriault, Conor Hoekstra and Marshall Lochbaum for gathering these links:[01] 00:01:45 Luther J. Woodrum Obituary https://www.fraryfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Luther--J.-Woodrum?obId=27482014#/celebrationWall https://www.linkedin.com/in/luther-woodrum-b5775a4a?trk=public_profile_browsemap Lenore Mullin Mathematics of Arrays https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenore-mullin-268b0a13[02] 00:03:46 Episode 6 https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode-06-henry-richs-deep-dive-into-j Episode 18 https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode18-henry-rich-presents-j903 Episode 48 https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode48-henry-rich[03] 00:04:40 Command to run Fold using J Playground - install 'github:jsoftware/dev_fold' J Fold https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/fcap APL Reduce / https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Reduce APL Scan \ https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Scan J Scan /\ https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/bslash https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/slash J Grade /: or \: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/slashco[04] 00:10:02 Functional Programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming C Programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)[05] 00:12:30 Iverson Notation https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APL.htm Adjacent Difference C++ https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/adjacent_difference[06] 00:14:50 Haskell Programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell BQN Primitives https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/commentary/primitive.html[07] 00:16:10 Object Oriented Programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming[08] 00:17:12 J Power Conjunction u^:n https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/hatco NARS 2000 APL https://aplwiki.com/wiki/NARS J Rank Conjunction " https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/quote J Cut Conjunction ;. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/semidot J Key Conjunction /. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/slashdot#dyadic J Recursion $: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/dollarco[09] 00:24:20 Identity Element https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Identity_element[10] 00:37:09 J Terminate Z: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/zcapco J Cap [: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/squarelfco[11] 00:41:22 J throw. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/throwdot J catch. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/trydot[12] 00:45:21 J ^:v^:_ https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/hatco#DoWhile J _3 Z: (Iterations bottom of page) https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/zcapco[13] 00:53:05 BQN Fold https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/fold.html Table from J Fold to K https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/User:Will_Gajate/FoldVariants[14] 00:55:13 Arthur Whitney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Whitney_(computer_scientist) APL Partition https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Partition[15] 00:57:55 J Gerunds https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Glossary#Gerund[16] 00:59:20 J Rank-Gerund 901 Release Notes https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/ReleaseNotes/J901[17] 01:01:11 C++ 2019 7 Consecutive Ones Conor talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48gV1SNm3WA[18] 01:03:10 BQN Each https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/map.html[19] 01:05:25 Dyalog APL Split https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Split APL2 https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL2[20] 01:07:42 J NuVoc Dictionary https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NuVoc[21] 01:11:25 Index Origin https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Index_origin[22] 01:27:15 CPU Cache https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache[23] 01:33:00 ValGrind Tool https://valgrind.org/docs/manual/ Perf linux https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Tutorial[24] 01:35:58 Contact AT ArrayCast DOT Com

Mar 18, 2023 • 1h 25min
What Affects Array Language Performance?
Array Cast - March 17, 2023 Show NotesThanks to Bob Therriault, Richard Park, Conor Hoekstra and Adám Brudzewsky for gathering these links:[01] 00:01:55 APL problem solving competition https://contest.dyalog.com/ Kattis online competition https://open.kattis.com/ APL Seeds '23 https://www.dyalog.com/apl-seeds-user-meetings/aplseeds23.htm Linux Format Magazine https://linuxformat.com/linux-format-300.html The APL Show - Reaction to "Change the Way You Think" https://apl.show/2023/03/09/Reaction-to-Change-the-way-you-write-Change-the-way-you-think-part-1.html The APL Campfire - Norman Thomson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPujK-GvHGQ&list=PLYKQVqyrAEj91hZHbJiWOENHZP4JT8VFv[02] 00:06:16 Ed Gottsman's Wiki Gui https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j17E_KUgKxk[03] 00:07:09 Why I Love BQN So Much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRT-yK2RTdg J software https://www.jsoftware.com/#/ Dyalog APL https://www.dyalog.com/[04] 00:08:12 Adám's APL Quest https://www.youtube.com/@abrudz/playlists[05] 00:09:50 q download https://kx.com/kdb-personal-edition-download/[06] 00:13:10 Shakti https://shakti.com/[07] 00:14:10 Emery Berger "Performance Really Matters" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g1Acy5eGbE[08] 00:17:14 Three consecutive odds ADSP 'scanductions' episode https://adspthepodcast.com/2023/03/03/Episode-119.html[09] 00:19:40 Rich Park's "A Programming Language for Thinking About Algorithms" https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/files/presentations/ACCU20210520.pdf[10] 00:21:00 Windows function in BQN https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/windows.html[11] 00:27:22 Fold in J https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/fcap Scan https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Scan Reduce https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Reduce[12] 00:29:15 Apex Compiler https://gitlab.com/bernecky/apex Co-dfns Compiler https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2627373.2627384[13] 00:32:50 Arthur Whitney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Whitney_(computer_scientist)[14] 00:37:03 Convolutional Neural Networks https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3315454.3329960[15] 00:39:05 Tensorflow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensorflow PyTorch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pytorch MLIR https://mlir.llvm.org/[16] 00:44:20 Paul Graham "Beating the Averages" http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html Bob Bernecky "Good Algorithms Win Over Tin" https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/GoodAlgorithmsWinOverTin cudnn: https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn C++/Python Meme https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/m3pf9h/there_is_only_one_king/[17] 00:49:00 Futhark Episode of ArrayCast https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode37-futhark Single Assignment C https://www.sac-home.org/index Dex https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang#dex-[18] 01:06:40 BQN Compiler https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/bootbench.html[19] 01:13:19 BQN Performance https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/implementation/perf.html Bench Array https://mlochbaum.github.io/bencharray/pages/summary.html[20] 01:16:12 Big Endian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness[21] 01:21:45 Performance Timing BQN _timed https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/spec/system.html#time J 6!:2 https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Foreigns#m6 APL cmpx http://dfns.dyalog.com/n_cmpx.htm q \ts:n https://code.kx.com/q/basics/syscmds/#ts-time-and-space[22] 01:23:15 ngn/k https://codeberg.org/ngn/k[23] 01:23:52 Contact AT ArrayCast DOT Com

Mar 4, 2023 • 1min
Henry Rich Reveals J with Threads J9.4
Array Cast - March 3, 2023 Show NotesThanks to Bob Therriault and Adám Brudzewsky for gathering these links:[01] 00:01:26 Technium podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUzMb5PdGBM[02] 00:03:42 Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Aboriginal_syllabics[03] 00:04:20 Newest APL Show episode: https://apl.show/2023/02/24/Primitives-Extravaganza.html[04] 00:04:40 Under: https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/under.html Henry Rich Episode 6 https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode-06-henry-richs-deep-dive-into-j Henry Rich Episode 18 https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode18-henry-rich-presents-j903[05] 00:12:30 Amend J adverb https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/curlyrt#dyadic At Operator Dyalog https://apl.wiki/At[06] 00:16:20 History of J releases https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/ReleaseNotes Winget https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/winget/ J9.4.1 https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation#J9.4_release[07] 00:18:39 u t. https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/tdot[08] 00:22:00 Matrix Multiplication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication Matrix Division https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invertible_matrix LAPACK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAPACK[09] 00:29:40 Pyx https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Glossary#Pyx[10] 00:33:00 CPU Cache https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache[11] 00:36:22 Immutable objects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immutable_object[12] 00:43:15 Dyalog Primitive for running OS threads: https://docs.dyalog.com/latest/Parallel%20Language%20Features.pdf#page=11 Dyalog Primitive for running green threads: https://apl.wiki/Spawn[13] 00:46:20 Futex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futex Mutex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutex[14] 00:53:18 GMP library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Multiple_Precision_Arithmetic_Library Fourier Transform Multiplication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_theorem[15] 00:55:05 New Error Messages https://github.com/jsoftware/dev_eformat Hook in J https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/hook Fork In J https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/fork[16] 01:05:25 John Daintree Token Debugging https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog22/?v=b2at0Sa8v3E Bob's Visual Debugger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSpJxv1BUhI[17] 01:07:00 J's new u/..: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/slashdot#dyadic Dyalog's Key: https://apl.wiki/Key[18] 01:11:40 J9.4.1 Release Notes https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/ReleaseNotes/J9.4 J9.4.1 link https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/System/Installation/J9.4[19] 01:16:29 JQt style editing https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Guides/Qt_IDE/Configure/Styles[20] 01:17:08 BQNPad https://bqnpad.mechanize.systems/[21] 01:18:10 Romilly Cocking "Solution by successive iteration" https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode34-romilly-cocking[22] 01:21:38 J Playground https://jsoftware.github.io/j-playground/bin/html2/[23] 01:23:12 Contact AT ArrayCast DOT Com[24] 01:23:35 J Fold Conjunction https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/fcap

Feb 18, 2023 • 1h 36min
Leslie Goldsmith, from I.P. Sharp to KX
Array Cast - February 17, 2023 Show NotesThanks to Bob Therriault and Adám Brudzewsky for gathering these links:[01] 00:01:20 APLSeeds '23 https://www.dyalog.com/apl-seeds-user-meetings/aplseeds23.htm[02] 00:02:26 KXCon https://kx.com/events/kx-con-2023/[03] 00:04:30 plrank.com https://plrank.com/[04] 00:05:30 Michael Higginson ArrayCast Episode https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode46-michael-higginson Iverson Centenary https://britishaplassociation.org/iverson-centenary-december-2020/[05] 00:06:30 Lower Canada College https://www.lcc.ca/ IBM 2741 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741 Anderson Jacobson serial modem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_Jacobson Gilman and Rose - An Interactive Approach https://apl.wiki/Books#APL_―_An_Interactive_Approach Leap Year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Accuracy APL implementation Leap Year https://tryapl.org/?clear&q=≠%E2%8C%BF0%3D4000%20400%20100%204∘.%7C1600%201700%201800%201900%202000%202100%202200%202300%204000&run[06] 00:13:53 Larry Breed https://apl.wiki/Larry_Breed Scientific Time Sharing Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Time_Sharing_Corporation STSC promotional video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjgkhK-nXmk 666 BOX https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#666box[07] 00:17:20 University of Toronto https://www.utoronto.ca/ Arthur Whitney https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Arthur_Whitney I.P. Sharp and Associates https://apl.wiki/I.P._Sharp_Associates[08] 00:18:23 360 Assembler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_architecture#Instruction_formats Eric Iverson https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Eric_Iverson[09] 00:22:40 IESO https://www.ieso.ca/[10] 00:22:50 Smart Meters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_meter[11] 00:23:30 Kdb+ https://code.kx.com/q/learn/brief-introduction/[12] 00:24:30 First Derivatives https://fdtechnologies.com/ KX https://kx.com/ KX Sensors https://kx.com/solutions/energy-utilities/[13] 00:27:52 George Hotz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz[14] 00:36:56 ⎕ec https://abrudz.github.io/SAX2/SAX61.pdf#page=790[15] 00:41:20 APL Programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language) Blackberry RIM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_Limited Rise and Fall of Blackberry https://www.businessinsider.com/blackberry-smartphone-rise-fall-mobile-failure-innovate-2019-11[16] 00:45:45 Ken Iverson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson Guy Steele https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_L._Steele_Jr.[17] 00:55:12 Nick Psaris ArrayCast Episode https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode42-nick-psaris-q[18] 00:56:23 Right Parenthesis ) https://apl.wiki/System_command Quad ⎕ https://apl.wiki/Quad_name[19] 00:57:16 APL2 https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL2 Axiom System https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/800136.804446 Trenchard More https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenchard_More Jim Brown https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Jim_Brown[20] 00:59:28 SHARP APL https://aplwiki.com/wiki/SHARP_APL Roger Moore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Moore_(computer_scientist) Richard Lathwell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H._Lathwell[21] 01:04:15 Array Models https://apl.wiki/Array_model[22] 01:04:50 Strand Notation https://apl.wiki/Strand_notation[23] 01:06:05 J Programming Language https://www.jsoftware.com/indexno.html[24] 01:18:02 q Programming Language https://kx.com/academy/ Type of https://apl.wiki/Type[25] 01:21:13 Haskell Programming Language https://www.haskell.org/[26] 01:24:30 ⎕ML Migration Level https://apl.wiki/Migration_level[27] 01:25:50 Oxide and Friends https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends Java Pubhouse https://www.javapubhouse.com/episodes[28] 01:27:26 British APL Meetings https://britishaplassociation.org/[29] 01:35:06 contact AT ArrayCast DOT COM

Feb 4, 2023 • 1h 39min
Michael Higginson, 2022 Dyalog Contest Winner
Array Cast - February 3, 2023 Show NotesThanks to Bob Therriault, Conor Hoekstra and Rich Park for gathering these links:[01] 00:01:51 The APL Show apl.show https://apl.show/ Norman Thomson APL Campfire https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL_Campfire APLseeds Conference Dyalog https://www.dyalog.com/apl-seeds-user-meetings/aplseeds23.htm[02] 00:05:18 KXcon https://kx.com/events/kx-con-2023/[03] 00:05:50 BQN Compiler Bootstrap https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN/tree/master/src/bootstraphttps://github.com/dzaima/CBQN/blob/master/src/opt/comp.c[04] 00:08:37 Dyalog Video https://www.youtube.com/@dyalogltd Dyalog Conferences https://www.youtube.com/@DyalogUsermeeting Michael Higginson's talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZyeXGbcpbA&list=PL5i_Y8skrlUJn2029On-QnGqxXtL_HVie&index=4[05] 00:10:46 Commodore Vic 20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIC-20 Compute Magazine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute! BASIC programming language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC[06] 00:14:06 IBM XT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT[07] 00:19:30 Turing Programming Language http://individual.utoronto.ca/kensou/programming/turing.html[08] 00:20:50 Perl Programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl Regex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression Java Programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)[09] 00:22:40 Notepad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Notepad Vim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor) Pair programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_programming[10] 00:24:15 Leslie Goldsmith https://ca.linkedin.com/in/lhg00 I.P. Sharp and Associates https://aplwiki.com/wiki/I.P._Sharp_Associates Ken Iverson https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Ken_Iverson Arthur Whitney https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Arthur_Whitney[11] 00:33:25 kdb+ https://kx.com/ q Programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from_Kx_Systems)[12] 00:35:36 ArrayCast Podcast https://www.arraycast.com Dyalog Contest https://contest.dyalog.com/?goto=welcome Trains https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Train[13] 00:39:20 Tzu-Ching Lee Student Winner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KonuJwRFtks&list=PL5i_Y8skrlUJn2029On-QnGqxXtL_HVie&index=5[14] 00:42:35 ArrayCast Episode 44 https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode44-language-choice-and-recreational-programming REPL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop[15] 00:45:40 k Programming Language https://aplwiki.com/wiki/K[16] 00:48:56 BEDMAS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_operations[17] 00:55:25 Tacit programming https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Tacit_programming q enlist https://code.kx.com/q/ref/enlist/[18] 01:02:38 Union without intersection in APL ∪~∩ Conor's blog on use of B1 and Phi1 combinators https://codereport.github.io/B1andPhi1/[19] 01:07:20 Iverson College https://iversoncollege.com/ Joel Kaplan Episode of the ArrayCast https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode27-joel-kaplan[20] 01:13:00 Sean Parent https://sean-parent.stlab.cc/ Stackoverflow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow[21] 01:15:46 Rust Programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language) Conor's Video on rust https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RsLGM_7ODE Chris Lattner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Lattner[22] 01:17:05 Oxide and Friends (mentions Roger Hui) https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/838566 (mentions Arthur Whitney) https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/838567 Functional Geekery https://www.functionalgeekery.com/[23] 01:25:30 Adám's Array Proposal https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Array_notation J Gerunds https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Help/Learning/Ch_14:_Gerunds C++ Programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B First Class Functions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_function[24] 01:28:39 Leonard Cohen Came so Far For Beauty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXBT5-0pkyg[25] 01:33:45 Conor's Algorithms as a Tool of Thought https://dyalog.tv/APLSeeds21/?v=GZuZgCDql6g[26] 01:16:55 Contact AT ArrayCast DOT com

Jan 21, 2023 • 1h 18min
Ashok Reddy, CEO of KX
Array Cast - January 20, 2023 Show NotesThanks to Bob Therriault for gathering these links:[01] 00:04:38 JSON for BQN https://github.com/mlochbaum/bqn-libs/blob/master/json.bqn[02] 00:05:32 Change the Way You Think talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOuwZEtHZ_U[03] 00:07:04 Ashok Reddy https://www.ajbell.co.uk/articles/latestnews/248261/fd-technologies-appoints-ashok-reddy-ceo-kx-division[04] 00:08:23 Sharp 1500 Pocket Computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_PC-1500 Newton-Raphson Interpolation https://web.mit.edu/10.001/Web/Course_Notes/NLAE/node6.html J#.NET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J_Sharp [05] 00:10:15 Grady Booch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grady_Booch Jim Rumbaugh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rumbaugh UML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language Cobol Programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL Nick Psaris ArrayCast episode https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode42-nick-psaris-q[06] 00:14:36 Java programming Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language) C# programming language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language) J++ programming language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B LINQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query SQL programming language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL[07] 00:17:13 VisiCalc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc q programming language https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Q k programming language https://aplwiki.com/wiki/K[08] 00:19:55 Python programming language https://www.python.org/ ChatGPT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT Arthur Whitney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Whitney_(computer_scientist)[09] 00:23:19 Kdb+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kdb%2B[10] 00:30:01 Asof Join https://code.kx.com/q/ref/aj/[11] 00:36:45 APL programming language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)[12] 00:42:50 Clinical trials https://bccancerfoundation.com/news-and-media/blog/what-clinical-trial/[13] 00:44:20 Matlab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATLAB[14] 00:46:08 Formula One https://www.formula1.com/ Alpine Formula One Team https://www.formula1.com/en/teams/Alpine.html Red Bull Formula One Team https://www.redbullracing.com/int-en KX Red Bull video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxfdFWKo_pQ&t=2s[15] 00:49:40 Fingrid https://www.fingrid.fi/en/[16] 00:53:20 Stent https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/stents[17] 00:55:05 KX Insights Release https://kx.com/news/kx-and-enterpriseweb-enable-unprecedented-performance-and-efficiency-for-network-services-at-the-edge/[18] 00:57:26 PyKX https://kx.com/pykx/[19] 01:01:38 q for personal use https://kx.com/kdb-personal-edition-download/[20] 01:02:25 Visual Studio Code https://code.visualstudio.com/[21] 01:09:00 SnowFlake https://www.snowflake.com/en/ SnowPark https://www.snowflake.com/en/data-cloud/snowpark/[22] 01:16:55 Contact AT ArrayCast DOT com

Jan 7, 2023 • 1h 23min
Choosing an Array Language / The Games We Play
Array Cast - January 6, 2023 Show NotesThanks to Bob Therriault, Adám Brudzewsky, and Marshall Lochbaum for gathering these links:[01] 00:01:13 Twitter Poll for APL Cast https://twitter.com/a_brudz/status/1607653845445873664[02] 00:04:30 Revamped BQNcrate https://mlochbaum.github.io/bqncrate/[03] 00:06:44 APLcart https://aplcart.info[04] 00:07:43 Inclusive Range in Q https://www.5jt.com/the-rest-is-silence p: Prime in J https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/pco Prime in Dyalog APL https://dfns.dyalog.com/n_pco.htm[05] 00:09:42 Consecutive values https://mlochbaum.github.io/bqncrate/?q=consecutive%20values[06] 00:11:46 APL Tacit help https://tacit.help BQN https://saltysylvi.github.io/bqn-tacit-helper/ J tte tacit to explicit https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Addons/debug/tte 13 : explicit to tacit https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/com J Phrases https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Phrases[07] 00:19:39 Fun Q https://fun-q.net/ APL Farm Discord/Matrix https://apl.wiki/APL_Farm[08] 00:22:00 Nick Psaris Episode on ArrayCast https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode42-nick-psaris-q[09] 00:24:20 Extended Precision and Rational Types in J https://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/elementary_mathematics_in_j.htm#_Toc191734516 BQN systemMath.fact https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN/blob/master/spec/system.md#math NARS 2000 https://aplwiki.com/wiki/NARS2000[10] 00:26:55 Dyalog Licence https://www.dyalog.com/prices-and-licences.htm CBQN GPL-3 Licence https://github.com/dzaima/CBQN#license J GPL-3 Licence https://github.com/jsoftware/jsource/blob/master/license.txt q Licence https://kx.com/developers/download-licenses/[11] 00:29:05 April Programming Language https://aplwiki.com/wiki/April[12] 00:31:20 Sort in BQN https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN/blob/master/doc/order.md#sort Without in APL https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Without Less in J https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/minusdot#dyadic[13] 00:34:30 Jelly programming language https://apl.wiki/Jelly https://github.com/DennisMitchell/jellylanguage[14] 00:35:08 Rust programming language https://www.rust-lang.org/[15] 00:36:40 Lesser of >. in J https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/ltdot#dyadic[16] 00:38:20 Code Golf https://apl.wiki/Code_golf Parse float functionhttps://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/spec/system.html#input-and-output[17] 00:40:44 APL ⎕D https://help.dyalog.com/latest/#Language/System%20Functions/d.htm APL ⎕C https://help.dyalog.com/latest/#Language/System%20Functions/c.htm APL ⎕A https://help.dyalog.com/latest/#Language/System%20Functions/a.htm Advent of Code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent_of_Code[18] 00:43:16 APLx https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APLX APL PLUS https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL*PLUS[19] 00:46:23 Dyalog ⎕DT https://help.dyalog.com/latest/#Language/System%20Functions/dt.htm[20] 00:52:46 Jelly Tutorial https://github.com/DennisMitchell/jellylanguage/wiki/Tutorial[21] 00:57:10 Plus Scan in BQN https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN/blob/master/doc/scan.md APL +.× https://help.dyalog.com/latest/#Language/Primitive%20Operators/Inner%20Product.htm J +/ . * https://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/applied_mathematics_in_j.htm#_Toc191734505[22] 01:00:30 q advent of code solutions http://github.com/qbists/studyq/[23] 01:01:30 SQL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL q for Mortals https://code.kx.com/q4m3/[24] 01:04:21 BQN Advent of Code list https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/community/aoc.html[25] 01:08:42 Adám's link http://www.jsfuck.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSFuck[26] 01:10:02 q links for Advent of Code https://github.com/qbists/studyq/tree/main/aoc/2022 J forums Advent of Code https://www.jsoftware.com/cgi-bin/forumsearch.cgi?all=&exa=advent+of+code&one=&exc=&add=&sub=&fid=&tim=0&rng=0&dbgn=1&mbgn=1&ybgn=2005&dend=31&mend=12¥d=2022 J wiki Advent of Code https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Advent_Of_Code APL wiki Advent of Code https://apl.wiki/aoc K Wiki Advent of Code: https://k.miraheze.org/wiki/Advent_of_Code[27] 01:12:40 Convolutional Neural Networks in APL https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3315454.3329960 Neural Networks https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Neural_networks[28] 01:15:00 Dr. Raymond Polivka's new APL book: http://aplclass.com/book/ APL Stefan Kruger Learning APL https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Books#Learning_APL J J for C Programmers https://www.jsoftware.com/help/jforc/contents.htm J Playground Example|Neural Networks https://jsoftware.github.io/j-playground/bin/html2/# BQN Tutorials https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/tutorial/index.html[29] 01:17:38 APL Wiki Learning Resources https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Learning_resources k Wiki Learning Resources https://k.miraheze.org/wiki/Learning_Resources J Wiki Learning Resources https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Guides/GettingStarted[30] 01:19:21 Contact AT ArrayCast DOT com

Dec 24, 2022 • 1h 28min
John Earnest and Multimedia
Array Cast - December 23, 2022 Show NotesThanks to Bob Therriault, Adám Brudzewsky, Marshall Lochbaum and John Earnest for gathering these links:[01] 00:02:00 Naming the APLNAATOT podcast twitter https://twitter.com/a_brudz/status/1607653845445873664[02] 00:03:54 John Earnest Arraycast episode 41 https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode41-john-earnest Michal Wallace Arraycast episode 40 https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode40-michal-wallace[03] 00:04:20 John's website https://beyondloom.com/[04] 00:05:10 iKe https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/tree/gh-pages/ike[05] 00:07:02 oK http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/index.html[06] 00:10:20 iKe Vector article https://vector.org.uk/a-graphical-sandbox-for-k-2/[07] 00:10:39 Lindenmayer fractals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system[08] 00:15:57 k programming language https://aplwiki.com/wiki/K[09] 00:16:40 turtle graphics https://docs.python.org/3/library/turtle.html[10] 00:17:44 Swift Playgrounds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Playgrounds Bret Victor http://worrydream.com/ Processing programming language https://processing.org/ Arduino https://www.arduino.cc/[11] 00:19:27 Dzaima APL -https://github.com/dzaima/APL/blob/master/APLP5/docs Dzaima BQN - https://github.com/dzaima/BQN/blob/master/app/readme.md[12] 00:25:08 Arthur Whitney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Whitney_(computer_scientist)[13] 00:25:30 APL wiki Naming https://aplwiki.com/wiki/The_name_APL Adin Falkoff https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Adin_Falkoff[14] 00:27:48 Dyalog https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Dyalog_APL Dyadic https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Dyalog_Ltd. Zylog processor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog[15] 00:30:32 Special k https://beyondloom.com/tools/specialk.html Fragment shader https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Fragment_Shader GLSL shader language https://learnopengl.com/Getting-started/Shaders[16] 00:33:25 NVIDIA https://learnopengl.com/Getting-started/Shaders[17] 00:37:00 Decker https://beyondloom.com/decker/index.html Lil programming language https://beyondloom.com/decker/lil.html macPaint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacPaint[18] 00:39:06 Interface builder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Builder Visual Basic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic Lua programming language https://www.lua.org/ q programming language https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Q[19] 00:44:29 APL# https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL-sharp[20] 00:45:08 Rescript programming language https://rescript-lang.org/[21] 00:47:10 Niladic functions https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Niladic_function[22] 00:48:30 HyperCard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard HyperTalk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTalk[23] 00:54:36 JavaScript programming language https://www.javascript.com/[24] 00:57:21 MacOS system 6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_6[25] 01:02:12 Excel spreadsheet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel[26] 01:04:02 J viewmat https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Studio/Viewmat[27] 01:05:40 regex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression[28] 01:06:10 Nick Psaris Arraycast episode 42 embedding languages https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode42-nick-psaris-q[29] 01:07:00 Python programming language https://www.python.org/[30] 01:18:21 Haskell programming language https://www.haskell.org/[31] 01:22:50 Myst video game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst[32] 01:23:32 Decktember https://itch.io/jam/decktember