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Brian Becker

APL Tools Architect

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Brian oversees the design and development of APL-based software tools intended to make it easier for Dyalog customers to develop applications and services for their customers. Brian has been a judge for the APL Problem Solving Competition since its inception in 2009; since then he has also taken on the role of primary problem content developer. More about Brian

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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 … Read
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Solving the 2014 APL Problem Solving Competition – How Tweet It Is

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 … Read
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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 … Read
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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 … Read
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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 … Read
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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 , … Read
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