APL Idea dump thread
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Max Krieger
09/02/2020, 1:32 AMAPL Idea dump thread
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Max Krieger
09/02/2020, 1:32 AMwhat if APL notation could be played with a piano/chorded keyboard
Max Krieger
09/02/2020, 1:34 AMit's striking that there is so little visualization packaging, afaik, for APL repls. Even a simple SVD or PCA to show intermediate operations seems pertinent, though I don't work with matrices at that level often
Max Krieger
09/02/2020, 1:34 AMAPL is great because it's concrete when you want it to be -- like Josh Horowitz's PANE, you can thread concrete data through (an identity matrix?) and see what happens
Max Krieger
09/02/2020, 1:36 AMthe aesthetic motivation for all this ^ is performative matrices, i want to play the music of the matrices
Max Krieger
09/02/2020, 1:36 AMa la @Jonathan Skjøtt's https://twitter.com/jskjott/status/1172703158130348032
Max Krieger
09/02/2020, 1:39 AMalso some of max bittkers stuff
Max Krieger
09/02/2020, 1:39 AMMax Krieger
09/02/2020, 1:39 AMMax Krieger
09/02/2020, 1:39 AM@Garth Goldwater enjoy my clownery^
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Max Krieger
09/02/2020, 1:40 AMoh also the little symbols need to float around on a big ass projector as you "play" them
Max Krieger
09/02/2020, 1:47 AMcurrently trying to find a toki pona fanart i vibed with
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Garth Goldwater
09/02/2020, 1:48 AMi’ve often said my ideal metric for software experiences is how much better they get if you put them to music
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Max Krieger
09/02/2020, 1:48 AMalan kay reaccs
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Garth Goldwater
09/02/2020, 1:49 AMseriously though just animating things like matrix transposition or whatever would be a huge aid to doing linear algebra interactively
Garth Goldwater
09/02/2020, 1:49 AMespecially if you nailed the “do the operation to the thing you’ve selected” interface
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Max Krieger
09/02/2020, 1:52 AMidk what this depicting but i like the floaty symbols (a toki pona writing system)
Max Krieger
09/02/2020, 1:53 AMsome sorta homestuck reference
Max Krieger
09/02/2020, 2:07 AMI wonder if there are researchers' APL "sessions" / "notebooks" in their exploratory form available on the internet
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Garth Goldwater
09/02/2020, 9:04 AMah! i know what i want! i want it animated like a fighting game combo
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