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by japiirainen 1323 days ago
Hi, yeah you assumes right that the transpose symbol comes from APL!

This language does not have ”implicit iteration” a la APL, thus * is just a binary operation you can apply like this *:<1,2> which will yield 3. This is why inner product needs to first transpose. TBH I don’t like this, I just wanted to follow the specification given in the paper as closely as possible. I might diverge from this and implement ”implicit iteration” in the future!
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chewxy 1323 days ago
Backus' paper had a specification. TIL.

Must be a weird award speech to give.

Thanks for the explanation. It's now very clear

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Jtsummers 1323 days ago
Turing Award lectures are not acceptance speeches in the normal sense. They've been technical lectures since the start related to the primary work/interest of the individual receiving the award.

https://amturing.acm.org/alphabetical.cfm - You can find the lectures linked from the individual's name. The length varies significantly.

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