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Bret Victor - Seeing Spaces

Colin McDonnell · 20.6K views · 2015-06-17 · 15:12

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Overview

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.

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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.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2017–2024

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skadamat · 2017-10 · Strong recommendation

Highly recommend Bret's 2 talks for context: [1] Seeing Spaces: [VIDEO] [2] Humane Representation of Thought: [LINK]

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yesenadam · 2023-01 · Recommendation

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 [VIDEO] Drawing Dynamic Visualizations [LINK] [LINK]

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mitchtbaum · 2018-10 · Recommendation

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 [VIDEO] and Media for Thinking the Unthinkable [LINK]

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