Whether you are celebrating a winter holiday, looking forward to the days getting longer from tomorrow, or enjoying summer south of the equator, we hope you have time to enjoy the final collection of light-hearted presentations from Dyalog ’23.
Andy Shiers has overall responsibility for making sure that Dyalog gets correctly built and tested before it reaches the users – and that it is supported once it has been released. In his “Fireside Chat”, Andy covers a wide range of topics that he regularly encounters but feels might have not been sufficiently emphasised in other talks or in our documentation – and that you might need to know about. Andy is back by popular demand from user meeting delegates, after a gap of a few years.
The development team at SimCorp Italiana have been regular contributors to Dyalog user meetings, with insightful and amusing anecdotes about the relationship between humans who work with technology. This year, in “Once Upon A File”, the stories are mostly about the trials and tribulations of importing data.
Ray Cannon has been working on synthesising music on various computing devices. From a humble start where he tapped notes out himself using “A Pointy Stick”, he learned how to generate chords, add harmonics, attack, decay, and reverberate – and store the result in .WAV files. The result is a rendering of J.S. Bach’s Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor, BMV565 – complete with animations – on multiple organ pipes, all done in APL.
We hope that you enjoyed the presentations from Dyalog ’23, that you have a Happy New Year ahead, and that we will see many of you at Dyalog ’24 in Glasgow (15-19 September 2024).
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This week’s videos:
- U07: Once Upon A File (Elena Paviotti and Gianna Folladore)
- U04: Music: APL vs APS (A Pointy Stick) (Ray Cannon)
- D14: The Return of Uncle Andy’s Fireside Chat (Andy Shiers)
Materials for all presentations can be downloaded from the Dyalog ’23 webpage.
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