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Fluent is attacking multiple problems. On the surface, it blends APL and LISP. Making S/M-exprs terse and building “diamond-less” left-to-right APL on top. This part is pretty okay…

After six months of work, I am here again presenting Fluent – a tiny lang which is optimized for differentiable & reactive programming. Since I am not Conal Elliot, don't expect a …

First two seasons of For All Mankind deserve to be on your list.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD04xx/EWD498... – How do we tell truths that might hurt? 1975 FORTRAN —"the infantile disorder"—, by now nearly 20 years old, is hop…

I mentioned GOTO in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975982 Dijkstra was highly influential in theoretical (proofs, algos) and practical (spec&compiler for Algo…

Interesting. Bird-Meertens formalism? That was directly influenced by APL. In the broader scope — algebra of programs — Dijkstra heavily disliked Backus’ FP.

Very interesting flip! For much of his life, Dijkstra opposed functional programming. He even more strongly criticised FP from Backus and APL from Iverson, which are both very func…

Oh, he would definitely hate it even more. It was too high-level for his taste. What I would like to know is how he would bend Algol 60 if he had tablet with pencil that could eval…

> Maybe, given the lens, I've not given Dijkstra a proper chance to demonstrate a more positive attitude, so I'm open to any suggestions of writings where he doesn't seem like such…

Dijkstra's go-to language (pun intended) was Algol 60 (& Pascal) – everything else was shit in his view. Some of his comments: FORTRAN — "an infantile disorder" COBOL — "the use of…

This is a good idea. Monadic/dyadic case for single glyph works nice only when you have a default value associated with it. For example `√16` is actually `2√16`. Or `log 100` is `1…

> In order to provide live two-way video between the lab and the conference hall, two microwave links were used. English also commanded a video switcher that controlled what was di…

This is the first part of the "New Kind of Paper" series that deals with concept of "handwritten calculator" – you scribble "1+2" and the system responds with "3". Think "Apple Mat…

> Actually, it's not quite "ML-family" enough for this post. But it is a remarkably cool project! :) Fair. Thank you :)

Fluent – 4K lines – including parser, interpreter, standard library, IDE, UI, docs, examples. Will grow though. https://github.com/mlajtos/fluent/blob/main/client.tsx

Shake your Mac to undo would be consistent with iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro. Yes, you shake your head to undo when wearing AVP.

I am doing interactive coding sessions via API. I don't want to see a message that I am over limit to use the best model there is.

Does it support API key access or only Claude.ai subscription?

Pure visual object tracking in visionOS is considerable laggy (even with increased detection rate). Natively tracked peripherals (Logitech Muse, PSVR2 controllers) are super respon…

I was hoping for 6DoF sub-mm realtime tracking. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

You are exactly right that the original vision of APL was a handwritten, non-ambiguous, consistent, and executable math notation. This was never accomplished. In 2021, I made a pro…

Hello, I finally pushed myself to open-source Fluent, a differentiable array-oriented language I've been building for the New Kind of Paper project [1-5]. Demo is available at [0].…

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This is absolutely insane in the most positive way.