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I remember seeing this several years ago, and was thoroughly impressed. The gentleman who wrote this library used it in an interactive essay called "Ladder of Abstraction." [1]

Here is its previous HN discussion: [2]

[1] http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3099595




The gentleman who wrote it is Bret Victor. I highly recommend this talk [1] by him (500k views), he's a true visionary.

[1] https://vimeo.com/36579366


Also consider reading his seminal essay called "Magic Ink" [1] and afterwards take a look at the publication date and try to remember where the web was back then.

[1] http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/


Just watched that talk... amazing. Do any of the tools that he uses in that talk exist?


I believe LightTable [0] ran with some of the concepts in the video, and I remember one of Chris Granger's videos having an almost identical bit about mapping time over space in a ball/block jumping game and very similar themes. Either way, it's definitely worth checking out. Sorry if I get any of the details wrong, I'm a bit out of step with Clojure.

[0] An IDE that supports Clojure and Javascript right now, maybe Python soon? Bit behind on the news: http://www.lighttable.com/


I have watched this video a few times and periodically revisit it. Sometimes we get to far into the woods and need to be reminded where we can go writing software.


I thought this was a few years old as well but I'm happy to be reminded of it.

I really enjoyed this http://worrydream.com/#!/ExplorableExplanations




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