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Re: l: A new runtime for k and q

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As someone who does not know what k4, qSQL, or q are, reading through the landing page of this website was giving me mild schizophrenia. And then I tried to search for these things in the old way, and received incredibly dry technical sites that still don’t tell me what it is, and all these names are wildly SEO unfriendly. So I had Claude give me context and it’s apparently the database Wall Street uses for tick data. Sounds cool but, jeez.

Re: l: A new runtime for k and q

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Flagged, lots of unexplained grandiose thinking like “k and q made the vector the unit of thought.” K and q are unexplained and unlinked and “unit vector of thought” is pseudoscientific language

Extremely likely to be AI, though I’m not sure that matters for rules re: submissions

Re: l: A new runtime for k and q

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Flagged, lots of unexplained grandiose thinking like “k and q made the vector the unit of thought.” K and q are unexplained and unlinked and “unit vector of thought” is pseudoscientific language Extremely likely to be AI, though I’m not sure that matters for rules re: submissions

I mean, this is perhaps the most vibecoded website possible so... deff AI.

Re: l: A new runtime for k and q

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Flagged, lots of unexplained grandiose thinking like “k and q made the vector the unit of thought.” K and q are unexplained and unlinked and “unit vector of thought” is pseudoscientific language Extremely likely to be AI, though I’m not sure that matters for rules re: submissions

> lots of unexplained grandiose thinking like “ k and q made the vector the unit of thought.”

That much makes sense in context: K is an array language, like APL, J, etc. From what little experience I have with J, ‘vector as a unit of thought’ seems like a reasonable description.

> Extremely likely to be AI

I had the same thought though.

Re: l: A new runtime for k and q

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post #4

Flagged, lots of unexplained grandiose thinking like “k and q made the vector the unit of thought.” K and q are unexplained and unlinked and “unit vector of thought” is pseudoscientific language Extremely likely to be AI, though I’m not sure that matters for rules re: submissions

I mean, this is perhaps the most vibecoded website possible so... deff AI.

It attracts negative energy via unanswerable questions and downvotes if you assert it is, alas.

Re: l: A new runtime for k and q

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As someone who does not know what k4, qSQL, or q are, reading through the landing page of this website was giving me mild schizophrenia. And then I tried to search for these things in the old way, and received incredibly dry technical sites that still don’t tell me what it is, and all these names are wildly SEO unfriendly. So I had Claude give me context and it’s apparently the database Wall Street uses for tick data…

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ quants be minimal

Re: l: A new runtime for k and q

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Not sure why all the hate (sure site may be vibecoded, not all of us are front-end masters and it's at least not spartan)... I've always found k to be fascinating, and cool idea to try and roll a new one. Wish it were wholly open source, but cool to have a new variant that seems to bench well.

Re: l: A new runtime for k and q

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As someone who does not know what k4, qSQL, or q are, reading through the landing page of this website was giving me mild schizophrenia. And then I tried to search for these things in the old way, and received incredibly dry technical sites that still don’t tell me what it is, and all these names are wildly SEO unfriendly. So I had Claude give me context and it’s apparently the database Wall Street uses for tick data…

K4 is the K programming language, Q is a language built on top of K. They are the practical over achieving members of the array family of programming languages.

Re: l: A new runtime for k and q

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post #5

Flagged, lots of unexplained grandiose thinking like “k and q made the vector the unit of thought.” K and q are unexplained and unlinked and “unit vector of thought” is pseudoscientific language Extremely likely to be AI, though I’m not sure that matters for rules re: submissions

> lots of unexplained grandiose thinking like “ k and q made the vector the unit of thought.” That much makes sense in context: K is an array language, like APL, J, etc. From what little experience I have with J, ‘vector as a unit of thought’ seems like a reasonable description. > Extremely likely to be AI I had the same thought though.

That’s fair: The most fair-to-submitter reading of your comment is my concerns are unfounded. If you didn’t intend that, that’s fine.

For moderators, I’d suggest that for the community, it’s spam. That’s one example, there are many more like it. The individual statement may be defensible but is still pseudoscientific language. This sort of content is a massive burden to community. Unanswerable anrguments about AI writing, whether the ability for an individual to have a parse-able reading is the same as writing being parable. The net effect is negative experiences for many and copy-editing for someone who did not do copy editing.

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