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Bret Victor
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Bret Victor
@worrydream
Joined February 2011
- The typesetter wipes his brow with his sleeve, takes a swig of whisky, unlocks a box labeled THE BIG INTEGRAL.
- 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: worrydream.com/2017-12-30-ala…Who is the equivalent of Alan Kay of our generation of programmers? Someone who has the grand unifying vision for the domain of computing. 😐
- Replying to @worrydreamWorrying 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
- Analysis of Nonlinear Control Systems in 1964, transmitting a desperate message to machine learning engineers in 2017
- ★ Dynamicland's new website documents ten years of progress toward a humane dynamic medium.
- Replying to @worrydreamIf any "founders" out there want to "disrupt" our 401 ppm atmospheric CO2, or "moonshot" ocean acidification, that would be cool
- I really like @windyoona's "Sound of the Dialup" chart: windytan.com/2012/11/the-so… so I printed it out and put it on the wall. (Turn on sound.)
00:00 - New personal website. worrydream.com
- Dynamicland's new research website will be up in the spring.
