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alexcweiner··on I made a 3D model of the Aperiodic Monotile a.k.a. The Hat
They found a new shape, and I wanted to 3D print it so bad. I'm not the first, but its ~100x100x6mm so I can use it as a coaster.
alexcweiner··on A Source Book in APL (1981)
This lets you access CUDA with APL

https://github.com/arcfide/Co-dfns

alexcweiner··on A Source Book in APL (1981)
What do you want to know about, specifically?
alexcweiner··on Ask HN: What “old” programming languages will you still be using in 2017?
I use APL as the sole language for my current job. Previous job was also APL. cumulative 4 years, and I'm under 30 yrs old, which is a bit of an oddity.
alexcweiner··on Ask HN: Which language(s) should I learn to do one-man projects and earn money?
Do it in APL
alexcweiner··on SKI Combinator Calculus on an FPGA (2012)
This was my group's senior project. none of us are working on this anymore.
alexcweiner··on Notation as a Tool of Thought (1980)
I suggest checking out GNU APL. There are relatively few libraries, so there is lots of room for contribution.
alexcweiner··on Notation as a Tool of Thought (1980)
I know a person who went through this program, and is still APLing today.
alexcweiner··on A card game implemented in APL
I think so,

It would be easy to make bitmap data with APL. What is the output of the "draw" being processed by, (or where)? From there, I think it would be easy to see where to wedge in APL.

alexcweiner··on A card game implemented in APL
This looks really neat. It may even give me a reason to learn K :)

I'm still not sure I totally understand. Are you suggesting that it would be neat to rewrite things in ok/examples or ok/ike/examples in APL and provide the draw function? Would that be enough to take advantage of what you wrote? What else would be needed?

alexcweiner··on A card game implemented in APL
This looks really neat. Is the SDL wrapper you wrote publicly available? It shouldn't be too hard to clone.
alexcweiner··on A card game implemented in APL
I can't speak for performance, but both GNU APL and Dyalog have solved the "problematic keyboard" problem, so getting running is no longer a problem.
alexcweiner··on A card game implemented in APL
I've been using it for image processing. Its perfect with the matrix data type. I also like to write preprocessors for APL code.

Any good books to recommend?

alexcweiner··on A card game implemented in APL
I don't have a reddit account, but feel free to post if you want to.
alexcweiner··on A card game implemented in APL
Either way its here. Thank you for fixing up the link :)
alexcweiner··on A card game implemented in APL
Hacker News emailed me and told me to repost this.
alexcweiner··on A little card game in APL
Hi. I'm an APLer and I wrote this in a day.
alexcweiner··on Try APL in your browser
I find that division by zero usually satisfies some edge condition in practice, as you are usually dealing with lists of numbers in APL, and it doesn't really come up that often.

gnuapl is also FOSS :)

alexcweiner··on Try APL in your browser
There is a Javascipt emulation available here. Its gnuapl and not Dyalog APL http://baruchel.hd.free.fr/apps/apl/
alexcweiner··on The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
My one professor is a rather big fan of it. several students in my class have sequences on it, and some are even "sequence" administrators
alexcweiner··on GNU APL 1.0
This is great! I am a long time apl user and think that the symbols make things much easier to read.
alexcweiner··on Zero Knowledge Proofs
My Professor was just going over this in class. He links to Manuel Blum's "classic" paper on the subject http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1986.2/Main/icm1986.2.1444.1...