Dyalog '18 Videos, Week 5
We are releasing four talks this week from Dyalog ’18 in Belfast. Three of them focus on techniques for deploying APL applications across all the platforms supported by Dyalog APL, in particular Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, and GNU Linux on x64 platforms (many tools will also work under IBM AIX and on the Raspberry Pi). […]
Dyalog '18 Videos, Week 4
This week is mostly a deep dive into the new world of storing source code in text files rather than workspaces and other “binary” formats. However, in case that is not your cup of tea yet, we can offer you another talk by Marshall Lochbaum, who presents more amazing algorithms to make the very widely […]
Dyalog '18 Videos, Week 3
The four presentations from Dyalog’18 that we are releasing this week address both the visible (user interface) and invisible (performance) parts of application design. Starting with performance: This quote was at the heart of the talk by our invited keynote speaker Martin Thompson. In order to write software which performs well, you need to have […]
Dyalog '18 Videos, Week 2
Each week until early January, we will be releasing a selection of recordings of presentations from Dyalog’18, which was held in Belfast at the end of October 2018. Last week we kicked off with the opening keynote talks and the prize ceremony and acceptance speech by the winner of our annual problem-solving competition. Just under […]
Diane's Lasagne Problem
Making Lasagne Participants in the SA2 Performance Tuning workshop at the Dyalog ’18 User Meeting were encouraged to bring their own problems for the group to work on. Diane Hymas of ExxonMobil brought a good one. The one-liner computation is as follows: lasagne0 ← {groups {+⌿⍵}⌸ amts ×[⎕io] spices[inds;]} where n ← 8e5 spices ← […]
Welcome to the Dyalog '18 Videos!
Three weeks have gone by since we waved goodbye to the last Dyalog ’18 delegates in Belfast. We’ve had time to catch up on sleep, half of us have had colds and recovered from them. Jason Rivers and Richard Park have started mixing and improving the audio and video recordings, and we are ready to […]
Dyalog '17: Day 2 (Monday 11 September)
by Vibeke Ulmann Focus on Dyalog APL the language – Monday 11th September 2017 Where Sunday is traditionally filled with workshops and hands-on experiences – the first proper day of the annual user meeting is Monday – and this year was no different. CEO, Gitte Christensen opened the meeting and emphasised a few of the […]
Dyalog '17: Day 1 (Sunday 10 September)
by Vibeke Ulmann SharpPlot and SharpLeaf – the graphics and publication tools included with Dyalog on all platforms (Workshop SA4) A lot of work has gone into SharpPlot and SharpLeaf over the past couple of years*. The workshop on Sunday 10th September was run by Nicolas Delcros, the Dyalog software programmer behind the work. SharpPlot: […]
Snapshot blog from the last day at Dyalog’16 in Glasgow
#Dyalog16 – Vibeke Ulmann So we have come to the last blog from this year’s Dyalog User Conference. This is going to be a short one – as I can’t possibly do justice in words to some of the presentations we had Thursday morning. Gitte Christensen started off the morning by giving us a run […]
APL50 – celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the APL language
#Dyalog16 – Vibeke Ulmann Wednesday 12th October was dedicated to celebrating the 50th Anniversary of APL becoming an interactive programming language. And what day we had. This blog will aim to give you a few impressions from what turned out to be a ‘tour the force’, with entertaining, amusing, thought provoking, presentations covering the early […]
