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People who understand things who can roll up their sleeves, and get the job done, are a rare breed, this stuff can't be taught.
Later, after you create you can return to Feynman, have a cold-beer, and listen to his lectures and have a good laugh.
Because they wanted my cell phone number, and my personal Identification, not unlike paypal.
Twitter was anonymous, and now its not; I think its not growing just like gmail.com, before when it was all anonymous many people were joining, now going in people know they have no anonymity, thus many simply don't complete the registration process once they know that twitter is collecting everything about them, and knows exactly who there are, & where they are ( cell phone tracking device ).
Game over for anonymity, and that marked the end of growth for social networking.
About two years ago for twitter.
Yep, I remember in high school, in fact it was in Pasadena not far from Cal Tech, I don't remember who, but somehow I learned from somebody how to open the high-school lockers by 'feel', in a fairly short-time I could open any locker quicker than my own knowing the combo.
Locks are fairly amazing when you think about it the locksmiths and the criminals all know how to crack any lock, yet the people in the middle think they're secure.
Years later as a landlord I got to know my locksmith fairly well, one day by offhand he told me that the master-key ( So I could have one key to rule them all ) I was using could open 1/2 the units in the city.
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This is NOT APL.
Futhark is a functional language, we will start with the obligatory factorial program:
fun fact (n: i32): i32 = reduce () 1 (map (1+) (iota n))
This has nothing to do with APL.
Perhaps a more apt title would be "Python for the GPU".j
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There is a paper on this subject, where an APL interpreter is written in FUTARK, but then most compilers are written in C. In reality the technology in question is Futark on GPU.
APL is a natural language for those who love math, however without the correct keyboard with APL fonts labeled on the keyboard I would think it to all be tedious. In 1986 there were some companys selling APL for IBM-PC's, and the SW included some stickers you could apply to your keyboard so you could know where to type the APL characters.
Most of the APL variants I saw on UNIX 1980-2000, used a terrible encoding system for using the APL font.
APL in many ways is like PYTHON of today, fast and powerful, back in the day even Tektronix offered a graphics terminal ( 1970 ) that let you code APL and generate graphics instantly not unlike what you can do today. The nice thing about APL is that all types and maxtrix/scalar/vector op's are taken care for you, you never had to worry about types.
In many way's APL with the proper keyboard is much better that what we have had ever since.
Around the Wheel we go as they used to say. Not unlike a hamster in a cage.