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Re: l: A new runtime for k and q

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Interesting, references?

Look online for Kx systems history of IP enforcement and legal threats. They are well known in the quant community for essentially being the Disney of time series databases. Nice tech yes, but the people behind it hold values that are typically diametrically opposite of hacker ethos. Good riddance.

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Re: l: A new runtime for k and q

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We'd like to see some benchmarks against open and closed k interpreters please! I'm curious how well a vibe coded k/q interpreter stands up to Shakti or whatever Mr. Whitney is letting out the door right now.

Definitely not a vibe coded language - I really wish the ai models were more helpful - but I should do a write up of the assembly analysis (and asm2vec). ATW is working on even more impressive things at the moment! Well beyond the scope of an interpreter itself.

Thanks for the response! Would love to read more.

Re: l: A new runtime for k and q

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Algol derivatives usually written by, commercialized, then sold by Arthur Whitney. Generally considered write-only :)

Algol? Did you mean APL?

Yes, yes I did. As penance, I will post Whitney’s sudoku solver in k:

   x@&/x?/:/:(+;!9;/:x)

Re: l: A new runtime for k and q

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It's a strong signal of unknown quality. Caveat emptor. Closed-source makes that extra difficult. We are used to this, hence why folks here point it out.

“It's a strong signal of unknown quality.” Unknown quality is the absence of information, you can’t have a signal for it. If you are using “unknown” as a euphemism for “poor”, which is the most obvious thing that makes the signal meaningful in the direction that seems apparent from context, why? .

Phrased differently, they claimed that the entropy of the distribution of some quality metric tends to be higher on the domain of projects with vibecoded sites compared to the domain of projects with handcrafted sites.

Re: l: A new runtime for k and q

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We'd like to see some benchmarks against open and closed k interpreters please! I'm curious how well a vibe coded k/q interpreter stands up to Shakti or whatever Mr. Whitney is letting out the door right now.

https://github.com/l-labs/master-benchmark/tree/master/resul...

Nice.

Re: l: A new runtime for k and q

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“It's a strong signal of unknown quality.” Unknown quality is the absence of information, you can’t have a signal for it. If you are using “unknown” as a euphemism for “poor”, which is the most obvious thing that makes the signal meaningful in the direction that seems apparent from context, why? .

Phrased differently, they claimed that the entropy of the distribution of some quality metric tends to be higher on the domain of projects with vibecoded sites compared to the domain of projects with handcrafted sites.

I don't believe for one second that this metric has been rigourously evaluated, it's also just based on vibes.

Re: l: A new runtime for k and q

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Phrased differently, they claimed that the entropy of the distribution of some quality metric tends to be higher on the domain of projects with vibecoded sites compared to the domain of projects with handcrafted sites.

I don't believe for one second that this metric has been rigourously evaluated, it's also just based on vibes.

Sure. Doesn't mean the statement itself was nonsense, as the post I replied to implied...
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