Bret Victor
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★ Dynamicland's new website documents ten years of progress toward a humane dynamic medium.
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The typesetter wipes his brow with his sleeve, takes a swig of whisky, unlocks a box labeled THE BIG INTEGRAL.
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Worrying about sentient AI as the ice caps melt is like standing on the tracks as the train rushes in, worrying about being hit by lightning
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As Kay himself has said so many times, this question is entirely about funding. With ARPA/IPTO-style funding, you get Kays (and Engelbarts, Minskys, McCarthys, Corbatós, etc) With VC and NSF, you don't.
Even Kay hasn't been able to "be Kay" since the 80s:
Who is the equivalent of Alan Kay of our generation of programmers? Someone who has the grand unifying vision for the domain of computing. 😐
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Oh my god. A calculator for distribution arithmetic. I've been dreaming about this forever.
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Analysis of Nonlinear Control Systems in 1964, transmitting a desperate message to machine learning engineers in 2017
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The amount of work required between planting the seeds and harvesting the crop is almost unimaginable. 2/2
http://t.co/oGau4GLNWy
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★ What Can A Technologist Do About Climate Change? (A Personal View)
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If any "founders" out there want to "disrupt" our 401 ppm atmospheric CO2, or "moonshot" ocean acidification, that would be cool
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I really like
@windyoona
's "Sound of the Dialup" chart:
so I printed it out and put it on the wall. (Turn on sound.)
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Dynamicland's new research website will be up in the spring.
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how to tell whether you're using a computer or an arcade game
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★ The Future of Programming. A talk about revolutionary new ideas for programming. (30 min)
http://t.co/fou1oq6der
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Dynamicland's new website, documenting ten years of work, will be released tomorrow at .
In the meantime, this video about Dynamicland's precursor gives some backstory and motivations.
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@rsnous
I have a thing about "The Two Computer Sciences" that I've talked about but never written down
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Congratulations Apple, a 942.8 billion dollar company, for building on the work of
@tristanharris
and
@edelwax
, who have dedicated so much of the last few years to scrounging for nonprofit funding.
Apple just announced a comprehensive set of measures to help users manage the time they spend on their phone.
#WWDC2018
Congrats to
@tristanharris
and
@edelwax
for pushing
#timeWellSpent
into the Zeitgeist 🙌🙌🙌🙌
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Gallery of Concept Visualization:
http://t.co/CvtTeutbsz
Explorable Explanations Hub:
http://t.co/czmNyt0AY7
http://t.co/z7hK7U61Ny
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Dynamicland's new documentation space will go online on Sept 4.
As a prelude, here is a video about Dynamicland's precursor.
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no no, I'm not interested in "project-based learning", I'm interested in "learning-based project-ing"
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★ Learnable Programming: designing a programming system for understanding programs.
http://t.co/NHiEi7G0
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Remember when Grace Hopper started her HOPL keynote with "I'm appalled at you"?
http://t.co/MAEScjxCXy
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@rsnous
I think about this suggestion from Scott a lot. I kind of think every CS undergrad should be required to implement a toy Xanadu.
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★ The Humane Representation of Thought: a trail map for the 21st century. (keynote at UIST and SPLASH, 1 hour)
http://t.co/GnRVcCQqbq
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Eric Betzig, recipient of 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, pictured here with Windows Task Manager because PowerPoint stopped playing video.
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★ Drawing Dynamic Visualizations. A talk about a new approach to creating data graphics. (35 min)
http://t.co/i6UE7Ijxef
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almost exactly eight years from concept to production
Things we prototyped years and years ago at Apple continue to trickle out. 1/2
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The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of attention which it can use for something else
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Q: This will never work.
A: It already works. We've been using it for years, for everything.
Q: But I can't imagine how it would work.
A: If you could imagine it, we wouldn't have had to build it.
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Direct manipulation of mathematical functions. This is huge.
http://t.co/cb8fRIA6h0
(by
@mandy3284
)
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Apparatus is a dynamic drawing tool by
@mandy3284
. A beautiful and important piece of work.
http://t.co/XZIoFqIzcD
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don't have time to write up my favorite books of 2015, so here's the whole damn shelf
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John McCarthy 10/24/2011
Douglas Engelbart 7/2/2013
Marvin Minsky 1/24/2016
Wes Clark 2/22/2016
Seymour Papert 7/31/2016
Jay Forrester 11/16/2016
Bob Taylor 4/13/2017
Chuck Thacker 6/12/2017
Larry Roberts 12/26/2018
Fernando Corbató 7/12/2019
Larry Tesler 2/17/2020
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Things we prototyped years and years ago at Apple continue to trickle out. 1/2
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What if "UI design" was about helping you live your ideal life? Must-watch talk by
@edelwax
:
http://t.co/G73ITpw4Jr
http://t.co/McIDzEsXvI
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they misinterpret you, then they ignore you, then they call you "inventor of the mouse".
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A small request: If you think this work is interesting, consider sharing it with someone you know who is "not a computer person".
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60% of my fav links from 10 yrs ago are 404. I wonder if Library of Congress expects 60% of their collection to go up in smoke every decade.
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Take that Jony Ive profile in TIME
http://t.co/Z3hjVgPkeX
and distill the oblivious irony into a single sentence:
http://t.co/SbI3A2yVE6
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An ambitious & exciting approach to direct-manipulation interactivity, building on Stop Drawing Dead Fish concepts.
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Today's Apple announcement made possible by Margaret Minsky's lateral-force haptic texture synthesis research, 20 years ago. Thanks Marg!
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Lovely interview with
@humantransit
(via
@vectorpark
).
"That attitude is catastrophic" is my new favorite sentence.
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"Caveat": a writing platform like "Medium" but you annotate every sentence you write w/ context, hedging, exceptions, "it's not that simple"
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woke up to scribbled note "selfie tree"
I think this is what I meant?
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A science book that you read by playing interactive simulations. A tour de force by
@cgingold
.
http://t.co/vMu7PMFldT
http://t.co/O3u4pYt8C4
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Modern Programming in one screenshot (from
http://t.co/rxRYLPNdmq).
http://t.co/fBCdR5gAGC
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The first sentence of Maxwell's monumental, world-changing "Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism".
http://t.co/nwHyxeQifm
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If you're not at the right place at the right time, you've got to make the right place and make it the right time.
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★ Stop Drawing Dead Fish. A talk about art and computers. (1 hour)
http://t.co/X0qMd9niiq
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By request, I put the climate change essay on github.
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Pretty impressed by some of the internal dev tools that Apple is choosing to release.
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(2/3) I wonder how many programming researchers today actually deeply understand Sussman's analogy and point here:
http://t.co/kA3o527aEh
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From the preface of a book from 1909 about best practices for running your machine shop. (Keep reading.)
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Pretty sure that moving a mouse pointer to an onscreen toolbar will soon feel as bizarre and anachronistic as manually dragging a scrollbar.
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To be clear, this has nothing to do with Apple being "bad" or "good". It's a structural problem. There are vast incentives for logging the forest, planting seeds has become an unfundable nightmare, and many people don't realize that trees grow from seeds in the first place.
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Dear e-book platforms: If you don't support computation & dynamically-generated gfx, you are not an e-book. You are a fax machine simulator.
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@rsnous
@Dynamicland1
Growing up within a worldview of "apps" and "dev tools" constrains people to see everything in those terms. It can take tremendous unlearning to even be able to /see/ an "authoring is always on" system for what it is.
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@davidad
@DanielleFong
In my experience, it often seems to go more like this.
http://t.co/z0rKdagAYD
http://t.co/z2qKnnjorb
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look, I don't normally call attention to these things, but Tufte picked me and
@mbostock
as the Future, I can't even
http://t.co/SAlbleiOeS
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okay, I just got out of my meeting, why is everyone texting me
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60 OVER 60 DISRUPTORS INNOVATORS impatient to CHANGE THE WORLD with 40 yrs of careful thought & lasting contributions
http://t.co/onWhngoU7J
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Don't panic. Don't despair. Build.
If you call yourself an engineer, it's time to step up and start engineering.
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★ Inventing on Principle (keynote at the Canadian University Software Engineering Conference, 1 hour)
http://t.co/5lbaCcqL
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"You'll notice it's gone basically to zero." Please watch this important talk by
@DanielleFong
http://t.co/bKF10VDiIk
http://t.co/HaG3eCH0Oc
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"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." -- CS Lewis on assigning CS students to implement Xanadu instead of some compiler or database or whatever
@rsnous
I think about this suggestion from Scott a lot. I kind of think every CS undergrad should be required to implement a toy Xanadu.
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Empathy results from seeing and understanding the larger system that you and others are embedded in, seeing *why* others act as they do.
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Hey, remember this from six years ago?
This fire has been burning for a long time.
@Dynamicland1
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Real challenge: instead of seeing empathy as a personal virtue, design a medium that engenders empathy by default.
People rarely understand the constraints that others are under, or take responsibility for their role in perpetuating them. Empathy matters
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