I watched the video but didn't see a way to download the actual system. Is that possible?
*-- Russ Abbott* *_____________________________________________* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 * blog: *http://russabbott.blogspot.com/ vita: http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ *_____________________________________________* On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Nazia Arbab <[email protected]>wrote: > Awesome work! > > "Science has explored the microcosmos and the macrocosmos; we have a good > sense of the lay of the land. The great unexplored frontier is complexity." > Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason > > >>> Tom Johnson <[email protected]> 10/5/2011 4:09 PM >>> > 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 > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
