

The Array Cast
Conor Hoekstra & Adám Brudzewsky
We explore the Array Languages of APL, J, k, q and offshoots. If you are Array Language curious, this is the podcast for you. Occasionally we may dive into the weeds, but most of the time we try to stay accessible to the general listener.
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Oct 15, 2022 • 1h 23min
Promoting the Array Languages
Array Cast - October 14, 2022 Show NotesMany thanks to Bob Therriault for gathering these links:[01] 00:02:25 2022 Dyalog User Meeting https://www.dyalog.com/user-meetings/dyalog22.htm[02] 00:03:10 q Vector dojo on problem solving SJT AT 5JT DOTcom[03] 00:04:25 Conor's paradigm conference presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oKAHQsh1oM[04] 00:07:37 Everest the Hard Way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_British_Mount_Everest_Southwest_Face_expedition Chris Bonington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Bonington Stephen Taylor's 45th anniversary blog https://github.com/StephenTaylor-Kx/swf75[05] 00:12:50 Dyalog webinars https://dyalog.tv/Webinar/[06] 00:13:30 ArrayCast Resource pages https://www.arraycast.com/resources[07] 00:14:40 2019 Dyalog Young User Panel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHBKxuRLaz4&list=PL5i_Y8skrlUJzbu_hd6I0oZPpbczBd4UV&index=25[08] 00:15:50 RikedyP Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOx-h5m9MeV14rG4PicRB7g[09] 00:16:13 Innovator's Dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma Lib Gibson Episode on ArrayCast https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode35-lib-gibson[10] 00:18:20 BQN https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/[11] 00:18:58 Gitte Christensen Episode on ArrayCast https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode12-gitte-christensen[12] 00:22:50 Troels Henriksen Episode on ArrayCast https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode37-futhark Troels' Blog post https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2022-10-03-futhark-on-arraycast.html Futhark https://futhark-lang.org/[13] 00:24:39 ADSP https://adspthepodcast.com/[14] 00:26:00 k programming language https://aplwiki.com/wiki/K q programming language https://code.kx.com/q/[15] 00:28:21 Ken Iverson https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Ken_Iverson J labs https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Labs/Index Jupyter notebooks https://jupyter.org/ Wolfram notebooks https://www.wolfram.com/notebooks/[16] 00:31:50 Jeremy Howard Episode on ArrayCast

Oct 1, 2022 • 1h 11min
Troels Henriksen and Futhark
Array Cast - September 30, 2022 Show NotesMany thanks to Bob Therriault for gathering these links:[01] 00:03:08 ADSP podcast on K https://adspthepodcast.com/2022/09/23/Episode-96.html[02] 00:03:30 Paradigm Conference 2022 https://esolangconf.com/[03] 00:04:25 Troels Henriksen https://sigkill.dk/[04] 00:05:05 Futhark https://futhark-lang.org/[05] 00:06:12 Linux https://www.linux.org/[06] 00:08:00 Textualize https://www.textualize.io/[07] 00:08:27 Standard ML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ML Common Lisp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp Haskell https://www.haskell.org/[08] 00:09:50 Cosmin Oancea http://hjemmesider.diku.dk/~zgh600/[09] 00:10:53 Ocaml https://ocaml.org/[10] 00:12:20 Numpy https://numpy.org/ PyTorch https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch[11] 00:13:07 Single Assignment C https://www.sac-home.org/index[12] 00:13:20 Codfns https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns DEX https://github.com/google-research/dex-lang Accelerate for Haskell https://www.acceleratehs.org Copperhead https://github.com/bryancatanzaro/copperhead Tensorflow https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow JAX https://github.com/google/jax[13] 00:18:39 Phd Position https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=157471[14] 00:20:17 Experiential Learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiential_learning[15] 00:21:21 DIKU https://di.ku.dk/english/ Hiperfit http://hiperfit.dk/ Simcorp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCorp Dyalog https://www.dyalog.com/[16] 00:23:00 TAIL http://hiperfit.dk/pdf/array14_final.pdf apltail https://github.com/melsman/apltail Martin Elsman https://elsman.com/[17] 00:29:17 Parametric Polymorphism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parametric_polymorphism[18] 00:32:06 Jay Foad https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Jay_Foad

Sep 17, 2022 • 1h 27min
What Makes a Language an Array Programming Language?
Array Cast - September 16, 2022 Show NotesMany thanks to Bob Therriault for gathering these links:[01] 00:02:20 Iverson College Workshop https://community.kx.com/t5/New-kdb-q-users-question-forum/Vector-programming-in-q-online-workshop-Sun-25-Sep/td-p/13067[02] 00:03:18 Jot dot times https://apl.news/[03] 00:03:40 APLQuest https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYKQVqyrAEj9zSwnh4K28nCApruWA1j_m[04] 00:04:22 APL Barcelona Meetup https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL_∊_BCN#Historical_APL_paper_reading_group Meetup https://www.meetup.com/apl-bcn/events/287974824/[06] 00:05:15 Paul Mansour's Blog https://www.toolofthought.com/posts[07] 00:05:34 APLwiki Blogs https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Blogs[08] 00:07:50 Conor's talk from Toronto Meetup https://youtu.be/8ynsN4nJxzU[09] 00:09:26 IEEE Spectrum Language List https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2022[10] 00:15:05 TIOBE Language list https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/[11] 00:15:55 Stack Overflow Language list https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/[12] 00:16:45 The Array Cast Episode #1 https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode-00-why-i-like-array-languages[13] 00:17:08 Conor's Array Language Comparison https://github.com/codereport/array-language-comparisons[14] 00:18:00 k programming language https://k.miraheze.org/wiki/Learning_Resources[15] 00:18:40 Nial https://www.nial-array-language.org/[16] 00:20:40 Iverson Notation https://apl.wiki/Iverson_Notation[17] 00:21:45 APL2 https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL2 Jim Brown https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Jim_Brown[18] 00:25:11 Transpose https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Transpose[19] 00:26:00 Reshape https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Reshape[20] 00:29:00 X matrix tweet https://twitter.com/code_report/status/1564757140513996801 J complex copying https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/number#dyadic[21] 00:32:06 Roger Hui https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Roger_Hui[22] 00:38:15 Marshall's Outer Product Lambdaconf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W

Sep 3, 2022 • 1h 21min
Lib Gibson - IP Sharp’s ‘Zookeeper’
Array Cast - September 2, 2022 Show NotesMany thanks to Bob Therriault for gathering these links:[01] 00:02:10 Dyalog winners https://www.dyalog.com/news/151/420/2022-APL-Problem-Solving-Competition-Winners.htm Contact@ArrayCast.com Transcript Producer?[02] 00:03:43 Rodrigo's episode https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode20-rodrigo-girao-serrao Hi res J icon https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/J_Logos[03] 00:04:10 J reference card USLetter https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/File:B.USLETTER.pdf A4 https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/File:B.A4.pdf[04] 00:04:37 Jwiki video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2hsnuxK79c Jwiki blue wiki sign up https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/About Jwiki yellow wiki sign up https://code2.jsoftware.com/wiki/About[05] 00:06:21 New York Meet-up https://www.meetup.com/programming-languages-toronto-meetup/events/287729348/[06] 00:07:00 IPSA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._P._Sharp_Associates[07] 00:07:46 Carleton University https://carleton.ca[08] 00:08:50 Data Processing Institute https://dpi-canada.com/about-us/our-history/[09] 00:09:00 Cluster Analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_analysis[10] 00:10:30 Ian Sharp https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Ian_Sharp[11] 00:14:30 IBM 2741 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741#APL\360[12] 00:17:07 Larry Breed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_M._Breed[13] 00:17:13 Eric Iverson https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Eric_Iverson[14] 00:18:32 Ken Iverson https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Ken_Iverson[15] 00:18:40 APL Quote Quad https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL_Quote_Quad[16] 00:22:00 Dome Petrolium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_Petroleum[17] 00:25:45 Arthur Whitney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Whitney_(computer_scientist)[18] 00:26:30 Roger Hui https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Hui[19] 00:35:30 Massey Ferguson https://www.masseyferguson.com/en.html[20] 00:39:20 Morgan Stanley

Aug 20, 2022 • 1h 23min
The Many Languages of Romilly Cocking
Array Cast - August 19, 2022 Show NotesMany thanks to Marshall Lochbaum, Rodrigo Girão Serrão, Bob Therriault, Conor Hoekstra, Adám Brudzewsky and Romilly Cocking for gathering these links:[01] 00:00:03 BYTE magazine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_(magazine)[02] 00:01:02 Org Mode https://orgmode.org/[03] 00:02:58 Toronto Meet-up https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/programming-languages-toronto-meetup/events/287695788/ New York Meet-up https://www.meetup.com/programming-languages-toronto-meetup/events/287729348/[04] 00:04:19 Morten Kromberg episode https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode21-morten-kromberg[05] 00:05:01 Romilly's video 'An Excellent Return' https://dyalog.tv/Dyalog08/?v=thr-7QfQWJw[06] 00:06:12 Ferranti Pegasus computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti_Pegasus[07] 00:09:09 System 360 in APL http://keiapl.org/archive/APL360_UsersMan_Aug1968.pdf[08] 00:16:50 Mind Map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map[09] 00:17:00 Dyalog https://www.dyalog.com/[10] 00:18:20 Digitalk https://winworldpc.com/product/digital-smalltalk/5x[11] 00:18:30 Smalltalk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk[12] 00:21:17 Raspberry Pi https://www.raspberrypi.org/[13] 00:22:10 Robotics on Dyalog website https://www.dyalog.com/blog/2014/08/dancing-with-the-bots/[14] 00:22:45 Neural Network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network David Marr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Marr_(neuroscientist)[15] 00:23:21 Jetson Nano https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-nano/[16] 00:23:38 Spiking neural networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiking_neural_network[17] 00:24:02 JAX https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks/quickstart.html[18] 00:27:00 Numpy https://numpy.org/[19] 00:28:21 Nested arrays https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Nested_array[20] 00:29:07 flip Numpy https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.flip.html flipud

Aug 6, 2022 • 1h 12min
João Araújo and Tools of Thought
Array Cast - August 5, 2022 Show NotesMany thanks to Bob Therriault, João Araújo and Rodrigo Girão Serrão for gathering these links:[01] 00:01:40 J wiki features https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWqixYyb52Q[02] 00:02:31 J promo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxibe2QOA0s[03] 00:03:00 British APL Association https://britishaplassociation.org/ Vector https://vector.org.uk/[04] 00:03:27 Conor's Twin Algorithms presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiferfBvN3s[05] 00:08:13 Numpy https://numpy.org/ JAX https://jax.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebooks/quickstart.html Julia https://julialang.org/[06] 00:08:49 João's array Google search engine https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=e5ff9c06c246f4ca5[07] 00:09:00 João's Iverson mirror site https://joaogui1.github.io/keiapl/ Original link http://keiapl.org/[08] 00:11:55 João's website https://joaogui1.netlify.app/[09] 00:13:10 BQN https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/ Dyalog APL https://www.dyalog.com/ J https://www.jsoftware.com/indexno.html[10] 00:13:50 Vannevar Bush https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush Alan Kay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay[11] 00:14:13 Tool for Thought Rocks https://lu.ma/toolsforthoughtrockshttps://www.youtube.com/c/ToolsforThoughtRocks?app=desktop[12] 00:14:40 Obsidian discord https://discord.com/invite/veuWUTm[13] 00:15:10 Roam https://roamresearch.com/ Obsidian https://obsidian.md/ Logseq https://logs

Jul 23, 2022 • 1h 28min
Control Structures in the Array Languages
Array Cast - July 22, 2022 Show NotesMany thanks to Bob Therriault, Marshall Lochbaum and Adám Brudzewsky for gathering these links:[01] 00:01:10 Dyalog Problem /solving Contest https://contest.dyalog.com/?goto=welcome[02] 00:01:35 Dyalog Early Bird Discount https://www.dyalog.com/user-meetings/dyalog22.htm[03] 00:03:50 Iverson Notation https://apl.wiki/Iverson_Notation[04] 00:05:06 GOTO in Early APL https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APL1.htm#1.2[05] 00:06:06 Control Structures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_flow[06] 00:08:33 Goto in APL https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Branch[07] 00:09:45 Goto in J https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/gotodot[08] 00:09:55 try. catch. throw. in J https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/trydot[09] 00:10:46 whilst. in J https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/whiledot [10] 00:14:09 APL Control Structures https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Control_structure[11] 00:17:43 J Control Structures https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/ControlStructures[12] 00:18:00 if. else. elseif. do. end. in J https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/ifdot[13] 00:20:40 singleton in APL https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Singleton[14] 00:21:01 for. for_ijk. in J https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/fordot[15] 00:23:45 Go language for loop syntax https://go.dev/tour/flowcontrol/1[16] 00:25:22 Javascript Mapping arguments] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/map#syntax[17] 00:26:21 Clojure Mapping https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/map[18] 00:27:40 BQN Control Structures https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/control.html[19] 00:28:20 BQN Blocks https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/block.html[20] 00:28:49 BQN ? predicate https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/block.html#predicates[22] 00:31:05 APL if else operands https://dfns.dyalog.com/n_else.htm[23] 00:31:42 BQN Stranded Block functions https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/doc/control.html#switch-case[24] 00:32:30 APL Arguments and Operands

Jul 9, 2022 • 1h 45min
Jeremy Howard - Data Scientist
Array Cast - July 8, 2022 Show Notes[01] 00:01:15 Dyalog Problem /solving Contest https://contest.dyalog.com/?goto=welcome[02] 00:01:35 Dyalog Early Bird Discount https://www.dyalog.com/user-meetings/dyalog22.htm[03] 00:02:40 Jeremy Howard wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Howard_(entrepreneur) Fastmail https://www.fastmail.com/ Optimal Decisions Group https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/18047/choicepoint-acquires-insurance-analytics-firm-optimal-decisions[04] 00:04:30 APL Study Group https://forums.fast.ai/t/apl-array-programming/97188[05] 00:05:50 McKinsey and Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company[06] 00:10:20 AT Kearney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_Kearney[07] 00:12:33 MKL (Intel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_Kernel_Library[08] 00:13:00 BLAS http://www.netlib.org/blas/[09] 00:13:11 Perl BQN https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/running.html[10] 00:14:06 Raku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raku_%28programming_language%29[11] 00:15:45 kaggle https://www.kaggle.com/ kaggle competition https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/unimelb/leaderboard[12] 00:16:52 R https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)[13] 00:18:50 Neural Networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_neural_network[14] 00:19:50 Enlitic https://www.enlitic.com/[15] 00:20:01 Fast.ai https://www.fast.ai/about/[16] 00:21:02 Numpy https://numpy.org/[17] 00:21:26 Leading Axis Theory https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Leading_axis_theory[18] 00:21:31 Rank Conjunction https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/quote[19] 00:21:40 Einstein notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_notation[20] 00:22:30 GPU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit[21] 00:22:55 CUDA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA[22] 00:23:30 Map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_(higher-order_funct

Jun 25, 2022 • 1h 9min
Looking Back at Our First Year
Array Cast - June 24, 2022 Show NotesMany thanks to Adám Brudzewsky for gathering these links:[1] 00:01:00 APL logo: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL_logo[2] 00:01:05 Array Cast merch: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/113247610[3] 00:01:35 Eso Lang Conf 2022: https://esolangconf.com/ Eso Lang Conf Twitter: https://twitter.com/EsolangT[4] 00:02:35 ADSP: The Podcast: https://adspthepodcast.com/[5] 00:03:10 Array Cast: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Array_Cast[6] 00:05:10 Centenary of Iverson's birth: https://britishaplassociation.org/iverson-centenary-december-2020/[7] 00:10:29 APL Farm: https://apl.wiki/APL_Farm[8] 00:11:45 Conor's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/code_report[9] 00:12:55 J: From C to C++20: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVFrD1dmDdvfVhYLU_iKkV67X9XqCJLWe[10] 00:15:04 The third podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1951960[11] 00:17:05 Functional Geekery: https://www.functionalgeekery.com/[12] 00:17:59 TryAPL: https://tryapl.org[13] 00:18:29 Joel Kaplan episode: https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode27-joel-kaplan[14] 00:18:54 Stevan Apter episode: https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode26-stevan-apter[15] 00:19:23 Rank episode: https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode28-rank-and-leading-axis[16] 00:19:54 CoRecursive podcase episode: https://corecursive.com/065-competitive-coding-with-conor-hoekstra/ Companion video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG-CcPb7ggU[17] 00:23:30 Readability: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Readability[18] 00:35:48 Our website: https://arraycast.com[19] 00:36:42 J wiki: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki J wiki search: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Special:JwikiSearch[20] 00:37:26 Stephen Taylor's blog: https://5jt.com This episode's show-notes: https://www.arraycast.com/episode-30-show-notes[21] 00:38:33 J-APL table: http://sigapl.org/_J-Dyalog_APL_Rosetta.html[22] 00:41:05 First episode:

Jun 11, 2022 • 1h 18min
Transpose
Array Cast - June 10, 2022 Show Notes[01] 00:01:22 awesome-q.org https://github.com/StephenTaylor-Kx/awesome-q[02] 00:01:35 reddit/apljk https://www.reddit.com/r/apljk/comments/v5cr09/blog_post_square_joy_preorder/[03] 00:02:04 BQN keyboard https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/xkeyboard-config/-/blob/master/symbols/bqn[04] 00:03:30 kx download https://kx.com/developers/download-licenses/[05] 00:04:46 aplfarm https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL_Farm[06] 00:05:03 J Playground https://jsoftware.github.io/j-playground/bin/html2/[07] 00:05:30 Interpreters for Array languages" https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Running_APL[08] 00:06:06 List of array languages https://aplwiki.com/wiki/List_of_open-source_array_languages[09] 00:08:39 BQN https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/running.html[10] 00:09:32 Wiki Content https://aplwiki.com/wiki/APL_Wiki:Content_guidelines[11] 00:11:20 Ivy https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Ivy[12] 00:13:44 Episode 28 Rank and Leading Axis Theory https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode28-rank-and-leading-axis[13] 00:15:20 ⌿ Reduce First APL https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Reduce[14] 00:17:10 Scalar multiplication https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Times[15] 00:18:01 matrix multiplication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplication[16] 00:19:02 Rank https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Rank[17] 00:19:12 Axis operator https://apl.wiki/Iverson_notation[18] 00:21:42 Reduce https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Reduce[19] 00:23:30 Bracket axis https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Function_axis[20] 00:24:50 GnuAPL https://aplwiki.com/wiki/GNU_APL[21] 00:25:33 k-cells of array https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Frame[22] 00:26:20 each function https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Each[23] 00:26:35 Negative rank https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Negative_Rank[24] 00:29:11 ADSP podcast June 3 https://adspthepodcast.com/2022/06/03/Episode-80.html[25] 00:32:27 stride https://en.wikipedia.org/


