“Highly recommend Bret's 2 talks for context”
Context for Bret Victor's research vision
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Highly recommend Bret's 2 talks for context: [1] Seeing Spaces: this video [2] Humane Representation of Thought: link
Bret Victor - Seeing Spaces
21K views · Jun 17, 2015 · 15:12 · 3 HN recommenders · 6 mentions · discussed 2017–2024
Bret Victor's talk proposing a new kind of maker space built for seeing and understanding a project's behavior: inside it, across time and across possibilities. It argues for scientific understanding over recipes and rules of thumb.
Why Hacker News points people here: Listed alongside his other talks as foundational context for Dynamicland and visual-programming ideas, and he is the most frequently cited speaker on such threads.
“Highly recommend Bret's 2 talks for context”HN comment, 2017
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“Watch his 2 talks that highlight the thinking and inspiration behind the RealTalk project”
Thinking behind Dynamicland's RealTalk project
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It's going to be entirely different I feel. Instead of manipulating graphics on a flat screen, focus will probably be on manipulating physical objects on a table / in a room. Watch his 2 talks that highlight the thinking and inspiration behind the RealTalk project: this video link
“see also Seeing Spaces”
Listed among related Bret Victor talks
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on one level, yes on another, they're down right scary and overwhelming, or at least dumbfounding and perplexing ..thinking specifically about The Humane Representation of Thought link I had to stop it half way through.. :-/ see also Seeing Spaces this video and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable link
“he gets more mentions than anyone else, usually.”
One of Bret Victor's frequently cited talks
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For the people asking who is Bret Victor: When "What are your favourite tech talks of all time?" is asked on HN, he gets more mentions than anyone else, usually. Some of his talks: Inventing on Principle link The Future of Programming link The Humane Representation of Thought link Media for Thinking the Unthinkable link Seeing Spaces this video Drawing Dynamic Visualizations link link
“Programmers don't have more specialized tools”
Reminds of specialized tools lecture
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Mm. I've been wondering recently why is it that Programmers don't have more specialized tools (Which incidentally reminds me of this lecture: [Bret Victor -- Seeing Spaces] this video ). It's interesting to think that high-performance traders have an entire market dedicated to specialized computer interfaces, terminals, etc. all focused on improving their productivity and ability to reason about the stock exchange. link As the top poster says about the Bloomberg terminals: ""1. You have to have a Bloomberg keyboard to work in finance. It's not even a question. It's a COGS for anybody who wants to work in finance or trading.""
Linked as spatial environment inspiration
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This is pretty neat! I wish web browsers on Mac could span to 2-3 monitors because then you could really build a great spatial environment for web browsing. this video