Maybe this example of talking to a group of people who are not interested in learning is more common.
So no matter how good you are or your material you do not have a hope of teaching them anything. So what is to be learned from this is you need to know how to talk to different groups. The message needs to be something they may understand. The more of an expert you are the less of a chance you have of reaching people who do not know much and have little hope of learning advanced concepts. The books something for dummies are trying to reach these people and in many cases do. - Björn Helgason gsm:6985532 skype:gosiminn On 8.5.2014 07:20, "Björn Helgason" <[email protected]> wrote: > It is funny how he describes the audience and no interest in the subject. > > the shape of a zero is empty but the shape of an empty is zero because > the rank of a vector is one and the rank of a one is a zero and … > > APL was invented by Dr. Kenneth Iverson; APL works back to front, well not > really, well sort of …” > > - > Björn Helgason > gsm:6985532 > skype:gosiminn > On 7.5.2014 14:43, "Roger Hui" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> As a matter of fact, I had two glasses in the vicinity of where I slept >> last night, one empty and one full. But it's not for the reasons you >> described. >> >> My favorite joke/story is >> http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#APL_course1 . Long but >> worthwhile. It's an APL story but it would have worked even better in J, >> given our emphasis on rank. >> >> Two other amusing ones: >> http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#18pt (you have to read the >> immediately preceding non-funny anecdote for this to make sense) >> http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#IC2013 >> >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Dan Bron <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > A programmer puts two glasses on his bedside table before going to >> > sleep. >> > A full one, in case he gets thirsty, and an empty one, in case he >> > doesn't. >> > >> > Found at: http://stackoverflow.hewgill.com/questions/234/075.html >> > >> > So what's your favorite computer/programming joke? >> > >> > -Dan >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
