Archive for March, 2020

It’s as old as I am!

Posted in APL on March 28, 2020 by asteriondaedalus

I was thinking about additional languages to play with in jupyter. I found they have elixir and a few others, including chapel. Both elixir and chapel need be set up on my linux box. I was hoping for Windoze 10.

I did find Dyalog‘s APL and thought, I did always want to play with that language BUT thought it was long dead. (my first programming language was LISP 😉 ).

The APL kernel junk is here.

So, it was straight forward to install, though I had to hand install since my jupyter install is a virtualenv and I had to note that the install bat made some assumptions about the APPDATA directory structure that was not apt.

All good, I also found a nifty javascript hook into your browser to provide the APL symbols, though it doesn’t set them out as a keyboard **groan**.

Name calling

Posted in Rant on March 28, 2020 by asteriondaedalus

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-27/trump-indicts-venezuela-nicolas-maduro-narco-terrorist/12094878

So a Narci-Terrorist or a Narco-Terrorist, which one is worst?

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-the-cell-where-a-sick-16-year-old-boy-died-in-border-patrol-care

https://www.thecut.com/2019/12/children-keep-dying-of-the-flu-in-immigration-custody.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/10/us-immigration-detained-children-flu-shots

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasenovac_concentration_camp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sajmi%C5%A1te_concentration_camp

The trick it seems is not to act but not to act.