Mind Boggling Performance
or is it Minding Boggle Performance? In the 2019 APL Problem Solving Competition, we presented a problem to solve the Boggle game where a player tries to make as many words as possible from contiguous letters in a 4×4 grid with the stipulation that you cannot reuse a position on the board. Richard Park’s 17 […]
Hacking with APL
Thanks to our dear friend Dr. Ray Polivka, Dan Baronet and I had the opportunity to travel to Vassar College to participate in their Community Hackathon held on 5-6 February 2016. “What’s a hackathon?” you ask? Well, we did too, as we’d never participated in one before. 🙂 According to the Hackathon’s announcement: “CommunityHack is a way to […]
Solving the 2014 APL Problem Solving Competition – How Tweet It Is
This is a manual expert that Mike made.
Simply A-maze-ing
One of many things I like about APL is that it’s fun to use for recreational computing. I will frequently happen upon an interesting problem, puzzle, or piece of code and consider how I might implement it in APL. I was thinking about how to generate mazes for an idea I have about a game to […]
Solving the 2014 APL Problem Solving Competition – It's All Right
This post is the continuation of the series where we examine some of the problems selected for the 2014 APL Problem Solving Competition. The problems presented in Phase 1 of the competition were selected because they could be solved succinctly, generally in a single line of APL code. This makes them well suited for experimentation […]
Solving the 2014 APL Problem Solving Competition – it's as easy as 1 1 2 3…
The winners of the 2014 APL Problem Solving Competition were recognized at the Dyalog ’14 user meeting and had a chance to share their competition experiences. Emil Bremer Orloff won the student competition and received $2500 USD and an expenses-paid trip to Dyalog ’14, while Iryna Pashenkovska took first place among the non-student entries and received a complimentary […]
Isolated Mandelbrot Set Explorer
It amazes me that an equation so simple can produce images so beautiful and complex. I was first introduced to the Mandelbrot set by the August 1985 issue of Scientific American. Wikipedia says “The Mandelbrot set is the set of complex numbers ‘c’ for which the sequence ( c , c² + c , (c²+c)² + c , […]
