I totally LOVE this!
-- Owen
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Tom Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some things here that will surely be of interest to some of the FRIAM-ers.
>
> http://worrydream.com/KillMath/
>
> Designer Bret Victor hopes to make the abstract and conceptual to real and
> concrete with Kill Math <http://worrydream.com/KillMath/>.
>
> Kill Math is my umbrella project for techniques that enable people to model
> and solve meaningful problems of quantity using concrete representations and
> intuition-guided exploration. In the long term, I hope to develop a
> widely-usable, insight-generating alternative to symbolic math.
>
> As part of the early project, Victor developed a prototype interface on the
> iPad to help you understand dynamical systems. It probably sounds boring to
> you, but the video and explanation will change your mind:
>
> Statistics has the same problem with concepts, and is one of the main
> reasons why people hate it so
> much<http://flowingdata.com/2008/12/15/do-you-hate-statistics-as-much-as-everyone-else/>.
> They learn about curves, hypothesis tests, and distribution tables, and the
> takeaway is that there are some equations that you plug numbers into. Sad.
> Of course there are plenty of people <http://www.socr.ucla.edu/>
> working<http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/%7Esummer/>
> on <http://srri.umass.edu/model_chance> that <http://www.causeweb.org/>,
> but there's still a ways to go.
>
>
> -tj
>
>
>
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