Hey everyone, The longer and larger version of Conjugate is now posted at: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/plus Comments regarding speed, movement, content and clarity are welcome (especially from newcomers). Is this a useful animation?
Cheers, bob On -Mar12-2010, at -Mar12-20108:17 AM, bob therriault wrote: > I love that quote Catherine, > > Going back to your frustration at the 'hiding' of the Conjugate (+) > operation in vectors and matrices, I realized last night that the solution > may not be in showing the way the individual instances of Conjugate work on > each atom of a matrix, but by using more scalar examples initially to show a > wider range of inputs and outputs for Conjugate. > > Today, i'll work at putting together a 'Club Mix' of the shorter animation. > It'll have more examples, be larger and run a little longer. This might be a > bridge between the short reference version and the longer tutorial version > that may include interaction and/or voice-over. If both versions were kept on > the reference page the user would have a choice between a quick check, or a > more extended description. > > Cheers, bob > > On -Mar11-2010, at -Mar11-20104:14 PM, Catherine Lathwell wrote: > >> To quote Ken, when I first talked to him about the doc project... "Maybe all >> that Art School is good for something after all!" :) >> >> shhhhhh.... don't tell I didn't know how J does minus! :) >> >> C >> >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Catherine - APL uses the same character for the same thing - it's just >>> positioned differently. >>> >>> BTW - your feedback is particularly valuable - please continue... >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Devon >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Catherine Lathwell <[email protected] >>>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> What's the deal with the _ character? Is this how J works these days? >>> I'm >>>> not really up on the J vocabulary, so I didn't understand conjugate >>> before >>>> this... so it took me a couple of runs to figure out that it's *minus >>> *you >>>> mean. My first few rounds, I was scratching my head trying to figure out >>>> what the heck you need an underscore in your number for. >>>> >>>> ... >>> >>> -- >>> Devon McCormick, CFA >>> ^me^ at acm. >>> org is my >>> preferred e-mail >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Catherine Lathwell >> http://www.aprogramminglanguage.com >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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
