I’ve spent around a year now fiddling with and eventually doing real data analytic work in the The Programming Language J. J is one of those languages which produces a special enthusiasm from its users and […]
This blog post will sketch out some thoughts relating to Puff, a function level programming language I am embedding in Javascript and J‘s notion of operator rank. Rank as it pertains to nouns in J is […]
That great minds think alike is a reflection of the fact that certain ideas have an appeal that is, if not innate, then compelling in context. Hence the use of dot notation in the creation of […]
J is great! It is a wonderful little language for data analysis tasks. However, to programmers used to working in modern dynamic languages, it sometimes feels a little restrictive. In particular, a ubiquitous feature in the […]
With Examples from Quantitative Neuroscience In my never ending quest to understand hard, but useful stuff, I’ve been learning the Programming Language J. J is an array oriented language in the APL family. Matlab is a […]