Bret Victor @worrydream Twitter profile

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Bret Victor

@worrydream

8 years

The typesetter wipes his brow with his sleeve, takes a swig of whisky, unlocks a box labeled THE BIG INTEGRAL.

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9 years

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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6 years

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:

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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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7 years

Analysis of Nonlinear Control Systems in 1964, transmitting a desperate message to machine learning engineers in 2017

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6 years

★ Dynamicland: incubating a humane dynamic medium

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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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9 years

Hm. http://t.co/jcEBdhiDcP

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8 years

★ What Can A Technologist Do About Climate Change? (A Personal View)

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9 years

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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6 years

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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2 months

New personal website.

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3 months

Dynamicland's new research website will be up in the spring.

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3 years

how to tell whether you're using a computer or an arcade game

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11 years

★ The Future of Programming. A talk about revolutionary new ideas for programming. (30 min) http://t.co/fou1oq6der

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8 years

Hi. Does this give you feelings? Here's what you can do:

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9 years

@worrydream http://t.co/S0EkXHR0Gl

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10 months

update:

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@worrydream

5 years

@rsnous I have a thing about "The Two Computer Sciences" that I've talked about but never written down

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@worrydream

6 years

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.

Raphaël de Courville (he/him) 𓅬

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6 years

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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7 years

Christina Engelbart @ChristinaDEI and I made a video digest of the Mother of All Demos.

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5 years

radiation pressure @dynamicland1

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9 years

Gallery of Concept Visualization: http://t.co/CvtTeutbsz Explorable Explanations Hub: http://t.co/czmNyt0AY7 http://t.co/z7hK7U61Ny

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6 years

Goal: 9 billion scientists by 2050.

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6 years

no no, I'm not interested in "project-based learning", I'm interested in "learning-based project-ing"

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12 years

★ Learnable Programming: designing a programming system for understanding programs. http://t.co/NHiEi7G0

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9 years

Remember when Grace Hopper started her HOPL keynote with "I'm appalled at you"? http://t.co/MAEScjxCXy

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9 years

"minimum viable planet"

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6 years

@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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@worrydream

9 years

★ The Humane Representation of Thought: a trail map for the 21st century. (keynote at UIST and SPLASH, 1 hour) http://t.co/GnRVcCQqbq

The Humane Representation of Thought

Closing keynote at the UIST and SPLASH conferences, October 2014. Preface: http://worrydream.com/TheHumaneRepresentationOfThought/note.html References to baby-steps…

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9 years

http://t.co/Kxj1cHhOOL http://t.co/ZUeT03OdqK

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7 years

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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Bret Victor

@worrydream

8 years

almost exactly eight years from concept to production

Bret Victor

@worrydream

9 years

Things we prototyped years and years ago at Apple continue to trickle out. 1/2

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6 years

rain this color

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@worrydream

7 years

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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collidescope

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@worrydream

9 years

Direct manipulation of mathematical functions. This is huge. http://t.co/cb8fRIA6h0 (by @mandy3284 )

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@worrydream

9 years

Apparatus is a dynamic drawing tool by @mandy3284 . A beautiful and important piece of work. http://t.co/XZIoFqIzcD

"Apparatus: A Hybrid Graphics Editor / Programming Environment" by...

An interactive diagram can be an effective way to communicate a mental model, because it can convey a way of seeing a problem or system. Currently, to create...

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Bret Victor

@worrydream

8 years

don't have time to write up my favorite books of 2015, so here's the whole damn shelf

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@worrydream

9 years

Things we prototyped years and years ago at Apple continue to trickle out. 1/2

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@worrydream

4 years

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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@worrydream

9 years

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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Bret Victor

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10 years

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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@worrydream

8 years

This entire file is full of magic.

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@worrydream

10 years

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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9 years

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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@worrydream

10 years

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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@worrydream

7 years

An ambitious & exciting approach to direct-manipulation interactivity, building on Stop Drawing Dead Fish concepts.

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6 years

Lovely interview with @humantransit (via @vectorpark ). "That attitude is catastrophic" is my new favorite sentence.

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@worrydream

9 years

"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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8 years

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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11 years

★ Stop Drawing Dead Fish. A talk about art and computers. (1 hour) http://t.co/X0qMd9niiq

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6 years

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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7 years

I think about this passage in @doougle 's thesis a lot. 1/3

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7 years

By request, I put the climate change essay on github.

GitHub - worrydream/ClimateChange: What can a technologist do about climate change? A personal view

What can a technologist do about climate change? A personal view - worrydream/ClimateChange

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8 years

what

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@worrydream

9 years

(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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8 years

Pretty impressed by some of the internal dev tools that Apple is choosing to release.

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Bret Victor

@worrydream

6 years

Notes on Resonance

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6 years

great to see some of the exciting new emoji planned for @unicode 12.0

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@worrydream

8 years

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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Bret Victor

@worrydream

6 years

From the preface of a book from 1909 about best practices for running your machine shop. (Keep reading.)

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13 years

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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@worrydream

6 years

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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@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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Bret Victor

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10 years

. @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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11 years

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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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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10 years

okay, I just got out of my meeting, why is everyone texting me

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8 years

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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12 years

★ Inventing on Principle (keynote at the Canadian University Software Engineering Conference, 1 hour) http://t.co/5lbaCcqL

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modern goals http://t.co/PkqSqCWYG8 http://t.co/O8cnAzfvhh

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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

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@worrydream

6 years

@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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★ Seeing Spaces. A talk about a new kind of maker space. (15 min) http://t.co/JBGvXthKFr

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9 years

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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10 years

Now that's how you textbook. (Who recognizes where this is from?) http://t.co/z7s69lpcjs

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9 years

Real challenge: instead of seeing empathy as a personal virtue, design a medium that engenders empathy by default.

Danielle Fong 💁🏻‍♀️🔆🏴‍☠️

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People rarely understand the constraints that others are under, or take responsibility for their role in perpetuating them. Empathy matters

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6 years

Hey, remember this from six years ago? This fire has been burning for a long time. @Dynamicland1

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8 years

Four years ago I was leaving their house into the snow and Gloria said "you need a hat" and gave me Marvin's hat.

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A number used to be an tactile phenomenon. Now it's an image. If wonder if music-making will go the same way, purely manipulating intangible marks on screens, instruments becoming as obsolete as the abacus. (via )