Inspired by Ken Iverson’s paper “Notation as a Tool of Thought”, this podcast explores various aspects of notation, in the context of the APL programming language.
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Inspired by Ken Iverson’s paper “Notation as a Tool of Thought”, this podcast explores various aspects of notation, in the context of the APL programming language.
The indexing notation and broadcasting rules of the Yorick programming language based on a tweet by Jeremy Howard, and conclude that the two approaches achieve the same thing; one by manipulating data shape until broadcasting achieves desired result, the other by applying additional broadcasting rules on the existing shapes.
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The tweet in question
Yorick’s indexing
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Inspired by Ken Iverson’s paper “Notation as a Tool of Thought”, this podcast explores various aspects of notation, in the context of the APL programming language.
