APL Idea dump thread

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Max Krieger · Answer

what if APL notation could be played with a piano chorded keyboard

Max Krieger · Answer

it 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 · Answer

APL 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 · Answer

the aesthetic motivation for all this ^ is performative matrices i want to play the music of the matrices

Max Krieger · Answer

a la < Jonathan Skjøtt> s

Max Krieger · Answer

also some of max bittkers stuff

Max Krieger · Answer

Max Krieger · Answer

Max Krieger · Answer

< Garth Goldwater> enjoy my clownery^

Max Krieger · Answer

oh also the little symbols need to float around on a big ass projector as you play them

Max Krieger · Answer

currently trying to find a toki pona fanart i vibed with

Garth Goldwater · Answer

i ve often said my ideal metric for software experiences is how much better they get if you put them to music

Max Krieger · Answer

alan kay reaccs

Garth Goldwater · Answer

seriously though just animating things like matrix transposition or whatever would be a huge aid to doing linear algebra interactively

Garth Goldwater · Answer

especially if you nailed the do the operation to the thing you ve selected interface

Max Krieger · Answer

idk what this depicting but i like the floaty symbols a toki pona writing system

Max Krieger · Answer

some sorta homestuck reference

Max Krieger · Answer

I wonder if there are researchers APL sessions notebooks in their exploratory form available on the internet

Garth Goldwater · Answer

ah i know what i want i want it animated like a fighting game combo