His latest demo of Realtalk, Biomolecular design in Realtalk, showcases the strenghts of Dynamicland. Really impressive stuff, as usual.
https://youtu.be/_gXiVOmaVSo?t=865
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StevenOtto commented on Bjarne Stroustrup Awarded 2017 Faraday Medal cs.columbia.edu/2017/bjar... · Posted by u/frostmatthew
I love tech lore from the Bell Labs, PARC era. Wish I knew where to find them. Computerphile on YouTube has some.
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by Mitchell Waldrop is a great book.
StevenOtto commented on TensorFlow: open-source library for machine intelligence tensorflow.org/... · Posted by u/jmomarty
Nile is a language built by Dan Amelang, a researcher @ viewpoints research institute. It is a language made for graphics rendering, it has the goal of having no incidental complexity.
2D vector graphics rendering as an example, takes ~10.000 lines of code using traditional libraries like Cairo (used by Firefox) or Skia (used by Android and Chrome). In Nile, it's 200 lines of code.
Check out this repo, and the pdf inside the readme https://github.com/damelang/nile
And check out the Nile Viewer as well!
http://subtlegradient.github.io/nile/viz/NileViewer/demo_sha...
StevenOtto commented on Years You Have Left to Live, Probably flowingdata.com/2015/09/2... · Posted by u/ingve
I remember reading somewhere on the internet about a person who had a decorative bowl in their house. This bowl was full of marbles. Once a week, they would take a marble out of the bowl and throw it away. Each marble was a week of their life. When they started this practice, they calculated their life expectancy and bought enough marbles for each week they were statistically expected to live. The idea is to give you the constant reminder that our time is limited, always running out, and shouldn't be wasted. The older you get, the less time you have, and the fewer marbles that are left in that bowl. If you are a typical HN reader, you likely have less than 3,000 marbles left.
Chris Crawford perhaps!
http://kotaku.com/30-years-later-one-mans-still-trying-to-fi...
StevenOtto commented on Making of “Introduction to A*” redblobgames.com/pathfind... · Posted by u/phenylene
Great work. Reminds me of Choc, an implementation of Bret Victor's Learnable Programming:
http://www.fullstack.io/choc/
I'm really interested in solutions for visually explaining what an algorithm does. Anyone have any other resources they like?
http://www.algomation.com/ has a lot of algorithms explained visually.
I also maintain a playlist with interactive explanations, which might be of your interest: https://gibbon.co/Steven/interactive-math-for-lasting-insigh...
StevenOtto commented on Why and How to Start Your SICP Trek hackerretreat.com/why-how... · Posted by u/limist
As someone with fine arts background, does anyone have a suggestion for a text to get me quickly caught up on the math required for SICP?
Concrete Mathematics [1] helped me a lot. It teaches mathematical knowledge and skills for computer science.
StevenOtto commented on How Music Hijacks Our Perception of Time nautil.us/issue/9/time/ho... · Posted by u/jerryhuang100
Edit: I expected an analysis of the neurological effects of music, but was not disappointed to find a critique of a String Quintet instead.
In 2004, the Royal Automobile Club Foundation for Motoring deemed Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyrie the most dangerous music to listen to while driving.
Clearly they've never experienced dubstep.
I highly recommend reading 'This is your brain on music' by Daniel J. Levitin if you're interested in learning more about the neuroscience side of music.
What does MVP mean in this context? Obviously it's related to a PoC, but I can't really find any acronym that fits the context...
MVP stands for Minimum Viable Product.