Re: [Jprogramming] Bug in new vocabulary &: page

2020-04-01 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Sorry, how should I convert that into a viewable diagram. Thanks! > On Apr 1, 2020, at 11:17 PM, Hauke Rehr wrote: > > Actually, I’m a little bit confused as well: > I thought I understood it but obviously didn’t > so I tried redoing the diagram but with one > set of arrows altered. > Am I

Re: [Jprogramming] stock data programming how-to #4

2020-03-31 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
If I may, and having heard no reply to my defense of component files, I'd suggest jfiles as a potential solution. Each record can take whatever size you are comfortable with: a month, year, or decade. Or am I missing something (as usual)? > On Mar 31, 2020, at 8:05 PM, Raul Miller wrote: > >

Re: [Jprogramming] Generating "music" in J (or otherwise)

2020-03-28 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
ill has the code: >> *nakaj...@design.kyushu-u.ac.jp* >> <https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm=1=1=nakaj...@design.kyushu-u.ac.jp> >> >> Skip Cave >> Cave Consulting LLC >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 8:35 PM 'Jim Russell' via Programmin

Re: [Jprogramming] Bug in new vocabulary &: page

2020-03-28 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
I’m still at the point where my eyes glaze over whenever I see that diagram. So, yes, even though it may be too soon for me to understand it, I would appreciate your effort to shed more light on the topic. > On Mar 28, 2020, at 9:36 PM, ethiejiesa via Programming > wrote: > > I might try

Re: [Jprogramming] Generating "music" in J (or otherwise)

2020-03-28 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
I also stumbled across YoshitakaNakajima . Alas, the link therein no longer works. > On Mar 28, 2020, at 5:27 PM, Devon McCormick wrote: > > has anyone done work with generating music or musical phrases in J?

Re: [Jprogramming] Iteration

2020-03-23 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Who do I thank tor this? It is a particularly clear and helpful exclamation. Thank you! > On Mar 13, 2020, at 3:56 AM, ethiejiesa via Programming > wrote: > > I'll contribute a little prose. Hopefully, it's helpful. > > In this particular case, notice that > transforms your list of boxes

Re: [Jprogramming] OpenGL

2020-02-28 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
I got the short .txt file as an attachment, which opened when asked. > On Feb 28, 2020, at 1:16 PM, Raul Miller wrote: > > Here's the same file with a .txt extension. -- For information about J forums see

Re: [Jprogramming] J equivalent of "exec"?

2020-02-18 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Does the "do" approach involve risks like SQL injection risks? How does one ensure that a user response doesn't include malicious J code? > On Feb 18, 2020, at 1:34 PM, PMA wrote: > > Bob, Jimmy, Pascal -- > Just plain old Do fercrisake. > Omg, I feel like an idiot! > (Happy, o'course) > >

Re: [Jprogramming] Whatever happened to foreach. ?

2020-02-15 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Thank you, Devon, for bringing gerunds into this discussion. An exchange here a while back reminded me of an inept COBOL programmer who created several pages of IF statements where a single "go to depending on" would have been much more efficient. After I made an (admittedly unsolicited)

[Jprogramming] Blush

2020-02-11 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
And sincere apologies for forgetting to remove the original messages from my reply. -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jprogramming] Derivatives

2020-02-11 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Many thanks to both Raul and Roger for Falkoff's paper. Fascinating! > On Feb 11, 2020, at 11:49 AM, Roger Hui wrote: > > I am skeptical of this particular use of "indeterminant" in Falkoff's > *APL\360 > History*. I typed in the web page > http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/apl360history.htm

Re: [Jprogramming] Derivatives

2020-02-10 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
> On Feb 10, 2020, at 10:31 PM, Don Kelly wrote: > > Thank you and good night?? Jeeze, even the shortest message in this thread goes over my head! -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jprogramming] J701 for iPad

2020-02-02 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
to remotely access my Mac Mini via the internet using SplashTop. Frankly, I am amazed that anything keyboard related works at all!! For example, I can sit in McDonnalds, and restart the MacMini and watch it reboot from my ipad! > Ian Clark > >> On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 18:56, 'Jim Russel

[Jprogramming] J701 for iPad

2020-02-02 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
At some point in the various iOS 13 releases I feared I had lost j701 on my iPad, although the iPhone version remained ok. On the iPad, the app opened, but the special j keyboard opened in the reduced ("swipe" or quick path) size displaying only half of the full sized keys. To trouble shoot,

[Jprogramming] J icons

2020-01-30 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
I managed to delete my Jjhs desktop icon from my Mac mini, and failed to recreate it. I finally had to do a complete reinstall of J to recover. Any ideas what MacOS magic I was missing? -- For information about J forums see

Re: [Jprogramming] j901-release-e

2020-01-29 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
I got release-d yesterday when I updated (after realizing I was running from my download directory. ) Should I hold it till it becomes rare and valuable to collectors? > On Jan 29, 2020, at 1:07 PM, Eric Iverson wrote: > > j901-release-e is available for windows/linux/macos > > It has minor

Re: [Jprogramming] IOS/IPadIOS 13.3 problems

2019-12-31 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
return key. When the keyboard comes up it covers the lower half > of both sides, but this is the same way for 12.5 or whatever the previous iOS > I had running was. > > Hope this helps, > > Cheers, bob > >> On Dec 31, 2019, at 12:58 PM, 'Jim Russell' via Programmin

[Jprogramming] IOS/IPadIOS 13.3 problems

2019-12-31 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Can any apple fan confirm or refute my recent problems with IOS 13.3? 1. J701, on an IPad, no longer behaves as it should, particularly when trying to run sharing the screen with other apps. 2. J701, on an iPhone, continues to work correctly. 3. Neither iPhones nor iPads at 13.3, when

Re: [Jprogramming] Jhs on iPad via lan to Mac

2019-12-28 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
t under jc whenever I restart jhs? > On Dec 28, 2019, at 3:18 PM, Eric Iverson wrote: > > Your 65002.cfg file would have been a trivial edit to the base JHS config > file which is at: > ~addons/ide/jhs/config/jhs.cfg > >> On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 12:51 PM 'Jim Russ

Re: [Jprogramming] Jhs on iPad via lan to Mac

2019-12-28 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
t;> On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 12:15 PM 'Jim Russell' via Programming < >> programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote: >> >> FWIW: I had iOS to jhs working over the lan for the last j beta. I _think_ >> I would have noticed a failure to open other web pages. I lost the ability

Re: [Jprogramming] Jhs on iPad via lan to Mac

2019-12-28 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
:55 AM, 'Jim Russell' via Programming > wrote: > > Seems the fault lies with iOS/iPadOS safari. (It may still be a setting. ) > > I have reached jhs on my Mac mini via the local lan from safari on an old > (2007) MacBook and from a win 10 (Edge?) system, and both behave as ex

Re: [Jprogramming] Jhs on iPad via lan to Mac

2019-12-28 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Seems the fault lies with iOS/iPadOS safari. (It may still be a setting. ) I have reached jhs on my Mac mini via the local lan from safari on an old (2007) MacBook and from a win 10 (Edge?) system, and both behave as expected. > On Dec 27, 2019, at 7:54 PM, 'Jim Russell' via Programm

Re: [Jprogramming] Jhs on iPad via lan to Mac

2019-12-27 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
> that is what I usually do if I don't have access to the actual terminal >> window, in which case I can just exit '' to close the session. >> >> Cheers, bob >> >>>> On Dec 27, 2019, at 3:59 PM, 'Jim Russell' via Programming >>>> wrote: >>&

Re: [Jprogramming] Jhs on iPad via lan to Mac

2019-12-27 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
case I can just exit '' to close the session. > > Cheers, bob > >> On Dec 27, 2019, at 3:59 PM, 'Jim Russell' via Programming >> wrote: >> >> >> I started to say: "All works as it should on the Mac mini, even when signed >> in with the Getlanip address

Re: [Jprogramming] Jhs on iPad via lan to Mac

2019-12-27 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
How does JHS behave when used directly on your Mac? Do all the menu items > work then? Easier to sort this out directly on the MAC without the extra > complication of net access from your iPad. > > Which menu items work and which ones fail? > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 12:55 PM

Re: [Jprogramming] Jhs on iPad via lan to Mac

2019-12-27 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
items work and which ones fail? > >> On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 12:55 PM 'Jim Russell' via Programming < jhs >> programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote: >> >> I have _FINALY_ (don't ask) restored my ability to access jhs from my iPad >> via my local lan to my Mac. B

[Jprogramming] Jhs on iPad via lan to Mac

2019-12-27 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
I have _FINALY_ (don't ask) restored my ability to access jhs from my iPad via my local lan to my Mac. But, none of the jijx menus which open other web pages work. (Although links from other apps do open new tabs.) I have enabled popups, which didn't help. Are other safari settings required?

Re: [Jprogramming] JHS - D3

2019-12-19 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
> On Dec 16, 2019, at 2:54 PM, Eric Iverson wrote: > > When using a gui like Jqt or JHS it is perhaps best to just work within > that environment. > Speaking of that… I finally (after at least a couple of days of grief, when I was sure my old friend (the Mac Finder, used since my first

Re: [Jprogramming] JHS - D3

2019-12-16 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
16, 2019, at 2:06 PM, 'Jim Russell' via Programming > wrote: > > Attempted to run (noticed that the terminology change from JAL to Pacman > causes some confusion, as does being able to follow the newcomers advice by > nuvoc to try:1.3.3 Help|Studio|Labs|Plot Package > <ht

[Jprogramming] JHS - D3

2019-12-16 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Attempted to run (noticed that the terminology change from JAL to Pacman causes some confusion, as does being able to follow the newcomers advice by nuvoc to try:1.3.3 Help|Studio|Labs|Plot Package ,

[Jprogramming] J701 v. iPadOS

2019-12-16 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
(];$;$,"0;$,"1;$,"2)i. 2 3 4 Trying to better understand the conjunction " better, I put that expression into j701 on my ipad. (Not even split screen, just the app by itself. In earlier IOS versions, all was well. But with the current IOS, at random times In the process: 1. The soft keyboard

Re: [Jprogramming] if. do. elseif. else. end.

2019-12-11 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
iciency claims which are not > supported by benchmarks. > > And, benchmarks tend to be specific to workloads and implementation > versions (with a plausible exception when the timing differences > exceed a factor of 2). > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > >> On We

Re: [Jprogramming] if. do. elseif. else. end.

2019-12-11 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Yes but... I'd contend that a string of tests is usually less efficient than (perhaps calculating) some numeric value that is amenable to a case statement. ( I should have checked first; J does have a case statement, does it not?) > On Dec 11, 2019, at 10:32 AM, Henry Rich wrote: > > Yes. >

Re: [Jprogramming] Explicit vs tacit with assignment

2019-12-10 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
> On Dec 10, 2019, at 6:59 PM, Jose Mario Quintana > wrote: > > Gilman and Rose's APL: An Interactive Approach > (If my memory is not betraying me.) > One of the nicest complements I ever received (important to me, not to him) was when Al Rose told me once that I should write a book!

Re: [Jprogramming] Expositional tacit

2019-12-09 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
r. > > A particular form of forks is (f0 , f1 , ... , fn) or (f0 ; f1 ; ... ; fn), > where the odd-positioned verbs is , or ; or ,. or ... See *J Introduction > and Dictionary*, Sample topic 15 > <http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/samp15.htm>. > > > &

[Jprogramming] Expositional tacit

2019-12-08 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Never having seen a name for Ken and Roger's official dictionary's expression format: X (exp1;...;expn) y I am going to use the subject phrase, at least until someone corrects me. Thanks to Jimmy Gauvin (and Brian), I now understand that this cryptic format used throughout the dictionary is a

Re: [Jprogramming] Selecting trains with m@.v

2019-12-07 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
age: > https://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/dictF.htm > (Notice that 'F' replaces 'e' ). > > --- > (B=) > >>> On Dec 7, 2019, at 12:39 PM, 'Jim Russell' via Programming >>> wrote: >> Another rabbit hole… >> —— >> [snip] >> Now the thing t

Re: [Jprogramming] Selecting trains with m@.v

2019-12-07 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Thank you. I may reply more in a year ot two when I have fully grokked Roger’s note in your reply! Wanting to be snippy in a complaint I was making to my local bank, I wanted to compare how many prime numbers my iPhone (using J) could calculate in the 15 seconds their cash machine took to

Re: [Jprogramming] Selecting trains with m@.v

2019-12-07 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
- ; +/ ; ,&4 5) 6 7 8 > ┌──┬───┬┬───┬─┐ > │7 9 11│6 14 24│_5 _5 _5│7 8 9│6 7 8 4 5 0 0 0 0│ > │ │ ││8 9 10│6 7 8 4 5 4 5 0 0│ > │ │ ││9 10 11│6 7 8 4 5 4 5 4 5│ > └──┴───┴┴───┴─┘ > > > &g

Re: [Jprogramming] Selecting trains with m@.v

2019-12-07 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
c 7, 2019, at 12:39 PM, 'Jim Russell' via Programming > wrote: > > Another rabbit hole… > > This expression format is used throught the original Iverson/Hui Vocabulary, > and I had always been bothered that I had to figure out what was going on > before I could get much v

Re: [Jprogramming] Selecting trains with m@.v

2019-12-07 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
y log of an earlier ijx session when I tried to restart from history; instead I had simply restarted in a Safari reader view, Now the thing that got me into that rabbit hole: where is this format: X exp1;exp2;exp3 Y first introduced and explained?? > On Dec 7, 2019, at 10:23 AM, 'Jim Russell'

Re: [Jprogramming] Selecting trains with m@.v

2019-12-07 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Lovely! Not at all obvious (to me)until you do it with simple verbs. > On Dec 7, 2019, at 9:30 AM, Jimmy Gauvin wrote: > > Hi, > > is the following what you want ? > > 1 2 3 (+ ; * ; -) 6 7 8 > ┌──┬───┬┐ > │7 9 11│6 14 24│_5 _5 _5│ > └──┴───┴┘ > > > >>

Re: [Jprogramming] Adding constants to intervals

2019-11-21 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
t;0 . > > I meant dyadic ];.0 as in > >(,.1 4) ];.0 'abcdefgh' > bcde > > as an alternative to (1+i. 4) { 'abcdefgh' > > Henry Rich > >> On 11/21/2019 3:29 PM, 'Jim Russell' via Programming wrote: >> Nice. But trying to understand, (thanks to dissect):

Re: [Jprogramming] Adding constants to intervals

2019-11-21 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Nice. But trying to understand, (thanks to dissect): dissect '10 20 30 (+ i.)&.> 3 2 4' cannot be replaced by dissect '10 20 30 (+ i.)&. ]"0 (3 2 4)' . And (again thanks to dissect) , did everyone else understand what dissect '];.0(3 2 4)' did? (I still have no clue what that has to

Re: [Jprogramming] SPX (in JHS)

2019-11-19 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
was unable to get back to my Mac mini remotely On my phone, I guess because I had put it to sleep by hand when I left home. > On Nov 19, 2019, at 5:37 PM, 'Jim Russell' via Programming > wrote: > > That's the lab that confused me. Spxhtml and spxlatex are in NB. comments, &g

Re: [Jprogramming] SPX (in JHS)

2019-11-19 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
That's the lab that confused me. Spxhtml and spxlatex are in NB. comments, and changing the arguments (in those comment lines, in the script display) does nothing to change the outputs. Perhaps there is another copy of the script that is running. Are the NB. Lines being run/interpreted? > On

Re: [Jprogramming] SPX (in JHS)

2019-11-19 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
> > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > >> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 4:33 PM 'Kenneth Lettow' via Programming >> wrote: >> >> Also see, http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/2017-May/037187.html >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 3:48 PM 'J

[Jprogramming] SPX (in JHS)

2019-11-19 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Any users? (It's neat!) Any hints what's happening under the covers where comments in spx.ijs refer to spxhtml and spxlatex (lines 48-57)? -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jprogramming] 901-beta-q

2019-11-19 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Perhaps not for betas, but the standard way updates are done for iOS/Mac App Store updates? (I guess add ons would remain a special case?) > On Nov 19, 2019, at 11:39 AM, Raul Miller wrote: > > I keep hoping that this will become something like an entry in j's > package manager.

Re: [Jprogramming] J and data structures

2019-11-19 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
I used dictionary objects in Visual Basic (Access) to report similarity in text strings based on trigram usage. The keys were the distinct 3-letter combinations; the values were the incremented hit counts. It was both efficient and effective. But I think there is a better array approach in J.

Re: [Jprogramming] J and data structures

2019-11-17 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
AFAIR, wasn't that a feature built into the (lib 1) component files addon? I don't recall using a separate dictionary function. > On Nov 17, 2019, at 9:49 PM, Henry Rich wrote: > > The datatype I really want is a directory object that acts as an efficient > and easy-to-use associative

Re: [Jprogramming] Writing array to file

2019-11-04 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
As I recall, the component files add in's (I think a carry over from Sharp and STSC APL) are ideal. > On Nov 4, 2019, at 8:57 AM, Adam Antonik wrote: > > I have a number of arrays of boxes of arrays of ... of ints, doubles and > strings. How can I efficiently save and load these from disk? >

Re: [Jprogramming] Calling all J Nubes, Lurkers, Beginners, and Non-experts

2019-11-01 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
> On Oct 31, 2019, at 10:15 PM, Ian Clark wrote: > > Instead I waste hours trying to read manuals. Me too (read manuals). Probably a left over of my early years as a tech writer. (A long ago lost ability to write clearly; a skill which you have obviously preserved.)

Re: [Jprogramming] Calling all J Nubes, Lurkers, Beginners, and Non-experts

2019-11-01 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
> On Oct 31, 2019, at 10:15 PM, Ian Clark wrote: > > Include me out, Jim. I'm not smart or cool, I'm just a J junkie. Sorry, but I remain unconvinced. But I was very impressed by dissect, the tool Itself, and the topics picked for it's labs. Henry has not gotten the credit he deserves for

[Jprogramming] Calling all J Nubes, Lurkers, Beginners, and Non-experts

2019-10-30 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
(In other words, pretty much everybody except perhaps for Roger, Henry, Eric, Ian, Chris, and the rest of you really smart cool kids.) One of the topics in my vast storehouse of J ignorance was http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Dissect#Labs

Re: [Jprogramming] Consecutive substrings (was Quora problem)

2019-10-27 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
but dissect had a bug running it. Make > sure you upgrade dissect using Package Manager. > > Henry Rich > > > >> On 10/25/2019 11:51 AM, 'Jim Russell' via Programming wrote: >> Thank you! >> >>>> On Oct 25, 2019, at 11:43 AM, Henry Rich wrote: >

Re: [Jprogramming] Consecutive substrings (was Quora problem)

2019-10-26 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Wow! I'm having breakfast at Bob Evan's and, with help from SplashTop on my iPhone, I updated dissect on my Mac mini at home and saw dissect work for the first time. My iPhone screen is a bit small, but I can't wait to get home and learn from this. I have high hopes--thanks very much. > On

Re: [Jprogramming] Consecutive substrings (was Quora problem)

2019-10-25 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
s a great help for me. > > > R.E Boss > > >> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- >> Van: Programming >> Namens 'Jim Russell' via Programming >> Verzonden: vrijdag 25 oktober 2019 17:52 >> Aan: programm...@jsoftware.com >> Onderwerp: Re: [Jprogramming

Re: [Jprogramming] Consecutive substrings (was Quora problem)

2019-10-25 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
ki/Vocabulary/bslash#dyadic you learn that >> rank of x u\ y is 0 _ >> And the same holds for <@([\), since >> >><@([\) b.0 >> _ 0 _ >> >> >> R.E. Boss >> >>> -Oorspronkelijk bericht- >>> Van: Programming

Re: [Jprogramming] Consecutive substrings (was Quora problem)

2019-10-25 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
R.E. Boss > > >> -Oorspronkelijk bericht----- >> Van: Programming >> Namens 'Jim Russell' via Programming >> Verzonden: vrijdag 25 oktober 2019 15:42 >> Aan: programm...@jsoftware.com >> Onderwerp: Re: [Jprogramming] Consecutive substrings (was

Re: [Jprogramming] Consecutive substrings (was Quora problem)

2019-10-25 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
invoked once for each left argument. > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > >> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 9:42 AM 'Jim Russell' via Programming >> wrote: >>>>> On Oct 25, 2019, at 6:49 AM, R.E. Boss wrote: >>>> I would pr

Re: [Jprogramming] Consecutive substrings (was Quora problem)

2019-10-25 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
> On Oct 25, 2019, at 6:49 AM, R.E. Boss wrote: > > I would prefer > > 2 4 6 <@(]\) 'abcdefg' > What's going on here?? Dyadic box?? -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jprogramming] Creating a distance matrix.

2019-10-22 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Wow! > On Oct 22, 2019, at 4:00 PM, Raul Miller wrote: > > Probably worth noting also that I could have instead said: > > D=: (+|:)>0;1.5;2 1.5;2.5 2 1.5 0 > > This is actually one character shorter than my previous expression... > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > >> On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at

Re: [Jprogramming] Multiple Takes

2019-10-21 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Very nice! I'm glad I took the time to try to understand this one. > On Oct 21, 2019, at 11:16 AM, Raul Miller wrote: > > ".>,{4#<'0126' -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jprogramming] #/. (Was also Sorry for the previous messages I neglected to remove from my reply)

2019-10-19 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
(Sigh, I spent a couple of days trying to send this to chat, before I realized that I wasn't a member of chat. ) This discussion (#/.) has been extremely insightful and educational, at least for me. Thanks to all the very smart J'ers who took a lot of time to try to educate me. As has

Re: [Jprogramming] error in: plot_gs_paint

2019-10-16 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
"Users" and "temp" are the names of the folders. On my Mac, under Finders menu Go, the Users menu is under the Macintosh HD. Under that (Users) is my Home folder (jamesrussell), and under that is j901-user/temp. (The different J versions all used unique names, like j601, j701, j64807,etc.) I

Re: [Jprogramming] Sorry for the previous messages I neglected to remove from my reply

2019-10-15 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
t;> +--+--+-+ >> >> Basically, any monadic verb that can handle lists of items from the >> right argument will work with /. (but keep in mind that if the results >> have differing lengths, the short results will be padded when >> assembling the result). >

Re: [Jprogramming] Sorry for the previous messages I neglected to remove from my reply

2019-10-14 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
--+--+-+ > > The nub of the left argument determines the number of items in the > result, but it's not sufficient to determine what's in each box. > > Is this clearer? > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > > >> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 1:24 PM 'Jim Russell

Re: [Jprogramming] Sorry for the previous messages I neglected to remove from my reply

2019-10-14 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Sorry, I'm still stuck on u=#. (Or "," or "<" or "[" ). I'll try to understand some harder working verbs, perhaps + or ! or I. or e? > On Oct 14, 2019, at 12:18 PM, Raul Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 12:06 PM 'Jim Russell' via Programmin

Re: [Jprogramming] Sorry for the previous messages I neglected to remove from my reply

2019-10-14 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Thank you Raul! I thought I was agreeing, until I got to the following: > On Oct 14, 2019, at 11:40 AM, Raul Miller wrote: > > So ... it's the "only the nub" which is relevant here, if you do not > care about the calculation which produces the result. What calculation? What would be different

Re: [Jprogramming] x u/. y Key

2019-10-13 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
;>> don't understand how you can have keys that don't have corresponding >> data, >>> or data that don't have corresponding keys. Sounds like a completely >>> different computation than _key_. >>> >>> _Key_ (the current definition) is cognate with the GROUP-BY statement i

[Jprogramming] Sorry for the previous messages I neglected to remove from my reply

2019-10-13 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
One more comment re group by: Don't know k or the connection machine (and struggle with take always, and goezinta's) but "group by" maybe helps me understand something. Implicit in a "group by" is that the grouping isn't by the referenced columns, it is by the unique, or distinct values in

Re: [Jprogramming] x u/. y Key

2019-10-13 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
g keys. Sounds like a completely > different computation than _key_. > > _Key_ (the current definition) is cognate with the GROUP-BY statement in > SQL, the monadic = function in k, the generalized beta in the Connection > Machine. > > > >> On Sun, Oct 13, 2

Re: [Jprogramming] x u/. y Key

2019-10-13 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
ave the > same shape, but the leading element of their shapes must be the same. > > > >> On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 3:58 PM 'Jim Russell' via Programming < >> programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote: >> >> Rick: My ability to read tacit expressions is so poor tha

Re: [Jprogramming] x u/. y Key

2019-10-13 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Rick: My ability to read tacit expressions is so poor that I overlooked the fact that the your quoted output did not come directly from the Key expression; silly me, I thought there was some form of the modifiers/arguments to Key that yielded the results of two inputs. (In contrast to your

Re: [Jprogramming] x u/. y Key

2019-10-13 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Ok, have you determined? > On Oct 13, 2019, at 11:03 AM, 'Mike Day' via Programming > wrote: -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jprogramming] x u/. y Key

2019-10-13 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
So, have you concluded: • A pre-filter is worthwhile? • Why eliminating spaces had such an effect? • Bacon was the author after all? -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jprogramming] x u/. y Key

2019-10-13 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Wasn't doubting Mike, just expressing how much diversity arises from only 4 letters. Imagine if God had used the whole alphabet. (Guess the other 22 letters hasn't been invented yet. ) > On Oct 13, 2019, at 3:09 AM, Ric Sherlock wrote: > > Confirming Mike's assertion... > > load 'stats' >

Re: [Jprogramming] x u/. y Key

2019-10-12 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
t; > > > Sent from my iPad > >>> On 12 Oct 2019, at 21:00, 'Jim Russell' via Programming >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Oct 12, 2019, at 1:52 PM, 'Mike Day' via Programming >>>> wrote: >>> >>&

[Jprogramming] x u/. y Key

2019-10-12 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
One more (I promise, I’ll stop hogging the fourm) mail to script conversion, this time from Ric’s contribution. (This is all great stuff, thank you guys very much!!) NB. Rick2, without Key NB.If you want compare the summaries without the original text strings, then NB.perhaps Key is not the

Re: [Jprogramming] x u/. y Key

2019-10-12 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
> On Oct 12, 2019, at 1:52 PM, 'Mike Day' via Programming > wrote: > > Sorry, I wasn’t considering trigrams in my off the cuff stuff, > > Mike > Thanks Mike (Day?). Can’t always tell with fourm replies until I reply… I appreciate (and am still studying) your stuff, and learning a lot from

Re: [Jprogramming] x u/. y Key

2019-10-12 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 > 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 > >> On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 12:23 PM 'Jim Russell' via Programming < >> programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote: >> >> Genius! I trie

Re: [Jprogramming] x u/. y Key

2019-10-12 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
tc|1 1| > > |tcc|1 0| > > |gat|0 2| > > |att|0 1| > > |tta|0 1| > > |gtt|0 1| > > |ttc|0 1| > > |tcg|0 2| > > |cgg|0 1| > > |cga|0 1| > > |ata|0 1| > > |tac|0 1| > > |acc|0 1| > > |ccg|0 1| >

Re: [Jprogramming] x u/. y Key

2019-10-12 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
alphabet of interest to your string and then subtracting one from the > scores. > > Useful for me sometimes, anyway. > > Mike > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 12 Oct 2019, at 06:50, 'Jim Russell' via Programming >> wrote: >> >> Looks promising.

Re: [Jprogramming] x u/. y Key

2019-10-11 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
> |gtc|1 1| > > |tcc|1 0| > > |gat|0 2| > > |att|0 1| > > |tta|0 1| > > |gtt|0 1| > > |ttc|0 1| > > |tcg|0 2| > > |cgg|0 1| > > |cga|0 1| > > |ata|0 1| > > |tac|0 1| > > |acc|0 1| > > |ccg|0 1| > > |cgc|0 2| > > |g

Re: [Jprogramming] x u/. y Key

2019-10-11 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Sure, thanks. I'm working to re-implement a text comparison program I did using VBA & Microsoft Access a number of years back. The object is to compare two text documents and see how similar one is to the other by comparing the number of unique trigrams that are found in each. For each text

[Jprogramming] x u/. y Key

2019-10-11 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
I had high hopes for the functions of Key (particularly #/.~ M) for tallying the keys in a character matrix. Playing with it, and replacing verb # with others (< or { or ;) just to try to better understand its behavior, answered one question that I had: was this some serendipitous marriage of

Re: [Jprogramming] Joey's %. benchmark

2019-09-15 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
I was not aware of that. Yet another reason to continue being impressed. > On Sep 8, 2019, at 4:43 PM, Roger Hui wrote: > > A further personal note: The recursive QR and a couple of similar > decompositions are how I got to Erdős 2.

Re: [Jprogramming] iPad access to JHS

2019-08-30 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
point (when I thought maybe J was looking there for a config/65002.cfg file) I thought i saw it go away. Probably just cockpit trouble. Somehow a copy of this wound up on my Mac desktop a week or so ago. > I hope some of this helps... Thanks, it does! > > Thanks, > >

[Jprogramming] iPad access to JHS

2019-08-30 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
For a bit yesterday I thought I had finally succeeded in using JHS from my iPad on port 65002. Silly me! Today, it is failing to launch any other web pages from the Help menu?? I continue to be amazed at the spooky sh*t I keep finding in my ignorance. Things like: 1. Don't trust "~". 2. Don't

Re: [Jprogramming] Prime Parallelograms

2019-08-28 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
The output plot didn’t survive copy/paste to here, but substituting jp for plot, it works just fine using j701 on my iPhone . On Aug 28, 2019, at 10:16 AM, 'robert therriault' via Programming wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I just became aware of the work that Pete Corey has been doing in using

Re: [Jprogramming] j901 beta-h available

2019-08-27 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
You guys are just showing off! JVERSION |value error: JVERSION 2!:7'' |domain error | 2!:7'' (J701 - IOS) > On Aug 27, 2019, at 2:40 PM, 'Pascal Jasmin' via Programming > wrote: > > 2!:7 '' > > avx avx2 -- For

Re: [Jprogramming] Document Object Model

2019-08-27 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Free is important! > On Aug 27, 2019, at 2:24 PM, Raul Miller wrote: > > I just meant to refer to the PE File Browser, which they offer for free. > > I have not tried their other products. > > FYI, > > -- > Raul > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 1:46 PM 'J

Re: [Jprogramming] Document Object Model

2019-08-27 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Thanks. Looks pricey, now that I avoid Windows environments. But I’m sure it would have much to teach me. > On Aug 27, 2019, at 12:09 PM, Raul Miller wrote: > > In that case, you might also want to pick up > https://www.softwareverify.com/cpp-pe-file-browser.php

Re: [Jprogramming] Document Object Model

2019-08-27 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
> Good luck, >> >> -- >> Raul >> >> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 7:29 PM 'Jim Russell' via Programming >> wrote: >>> >>> Yes, very much. As I recall, a single DOM handled all web pages; a class of >>> objects containing collections of

Re: [Jprogramming] Document Object Model

2019-08-26 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
changes, the object could be programmatically manipulated. But I may have forgotten everything; I’ll look into your .dll approach. Thanks very much. > On Aug 26, 2019, at 7:08 PM, Raul Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 6:27 PM 'Jim Russell' via Programming > wrote: >&g

Re: [Jprogramming] j901 beta-h available

2019-08-26 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Closing quote?? > On Aug 26, 2019, at 6:37 PM, Eric Iverson wrote: > > je_update_jpacman_' -- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm

Re: [Jprogramming] Document Object Model

2019-08-26 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 2:26 PM 'Jim Russell' via Programming > wrote: >> In fact, JHS is the only J access still available on my old MacBook (JQT is >> no longer compatible.) I hadn’t seen anything approaching DOM, but I’ll >> look again. Thanks. > > You might want

Re: [Jprogramming] Document Object Model

2019-08-26 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
sed. > > Cheers, bob > >> On Aug 26, 2019, at 10:40 AM, 'Jim Russell' via Programming >> wrote: >> >> I am contemplating re-implementing an old VBA program in J. Is any

Re: [Jprogramming] Document Object Model

2019-08-26 Thread 'Jim Russell' via Programming
you looked at JHS, specifically the demos? I am not sure that it is what > you are looking for, but it does suggest an approach that has been used. > > Cheers, bob > >> On Aug 26, 2019, at 10:40 AM, 'Jim Russell' via Programming >> wrote: >> >> I am contemp

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