I greatly enjoyed the episode too. I was cutting the grass in 90 degree heat and wished my lawn was bigger because I only fit in the first hour so far. It was the first one I listened to and I am excited to go back and listen to the rest.
Great production and felt like a campfire chat. Eric, thanks for taking the time to share your history. It's inspiring to listen to. Bob, thanks for sharing this and your involvement in it for the community now and for future users of J to come back and listen to And for all of you who actively post on Quora, stack overflow or rosettacode, to name a few, it makes a big difference. Thank you Skip and others On Sun, Sep 19, 2021, 8:28 PM 'robert therriault' via Chat < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the kind words Skip, > > I don't want to speak for Eric, but I got the feeling that he was talking > about the fact that the core group of J software has not been involved in > social media. > > You have been active with Quora, Michal Wallace, myself and Conor Hoekstra > have a presence with J on Youtube (Michal also on Twitch), Dan Bron, Rik > Sherlock and myself answer questions on Stackoverflow and there are > probably others who are involved in other areas of which I am unaware. > > I think that the more significant development was that J is looking to > widen the participation in development of the core J engine and may be > reaching out on social media to encourage participation. > > Cheers, bob > > > On Sep 19, 2021, at 16:46, Skip Cave <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I listened to the Array Cast podcast yesterday, where Eric Iverson talked > > about his life & career growing up with Ken and developing J. I felt it > was > > one of the best ArrayCasts so far. In the cast, Eric mentioned that he > was > > not very familiar with social media, and he said this was "the first time > > ever that J has been on social media". > > > > I have to admit I was surprised at this. I have been using J to show > people > > how to solve their problems on Quora <https://www.quora.com/> for over 4 > > years. Quora is a social media site where people can post questions, and > > others can post answers to those questions for all to see. > > > > I have posted over 6,000 answers to all kinds of math & statistics > problems > > on that site, mostly using the J language. I started doing this just > > to polish my J skills, but I have found that my solutions also elicit > > interest in the J language, mainly because most of the solutions are one > > liners, while other solutions in Python or other languages took many > > lines, with lots of looping. > > There have now been over 1.8 million views of my solutions, 1,800 > comments, > > and 53 J solutions to problems that have been shared out to other social > > media platforms. I do occasionally post answers to non-programming > issues, > > but that is fairly rare. > > > > At the beginning of each math-oriented solution I post, I try to always > put > > a link to either J Software or to the Wikipedia article on J (which has a > > link to J Software). I believe that this is a good way to promote J, > which > > I use in my electrical engineering work. Besides J practice, my > motivation > > today is to boost support of the J language, to help keep it current, and > > to increase its usage. > > > > Skip > > > > Skip Cave > > Cave Consulting LLC > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
