Oh awesome! Thank you both. That's got to be one of the single most profound uses of computers I've ever run across.
Warm regards, ~Simon On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Alan Kay <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's the link to the paper > http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2005001_learning.pdf > Cheers, > Alan > > ________________________________ > From: Martin McClure <[email protected]> > To: Fundamentals of New Computing <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2011 3:46 PM > Subject: Re: [fonc] Physics and Types > > On 08/03/2011 08:10 PM, Simon Forman wrote: > >> On the other hand, there's a story (I believe it's in one of the VPRI >> documents but I couldn't locate it just now) about children using >> their machines to take pictures of a falling object and then analyzing >> the pictures and deducing for themselves the constant-acceleration >> rule for gravity. > > IIRC, this is one of the things on the Squeakers DVD. > http://squeakland.org/resources/audioVisual/#cat547 > > Regards, > > -Martin > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > > -- I live on a Pony Farm: http://fertilefuture.blogspot.com/ My blog: http://firequery.blogspot.com/ "The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity." --H. P. Wells, "A Short History of the World" _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
