2022 - To Read

Think music composition and coding are too tough for grade 5? We wondered too, so we asked a group of grade 5-9 junior mentors to test our new music platform in the winter and this is what the produced! Next step, Code with Beethoven summer camp with @violistinvt . pic.twitter.com/ZApJoEho4Q— McMaster Start Coding (@MacCSOutreach) June 11, 2021

Took me a while, but I'm starting the Argument Diagramming course from OLI https://t.co/7KX4usmFgv. Going to be thinking about how this could be done in a Roam-native fashion. https://t.co/P5YByphyXJ pic.twitter.com/GoqCqiSmnu— Stian Håklev (@houshuang) June 10, 2021

It's striking how rapidly I can generate a large number of spaced repetition prompts using clozes when writing prose notes like https://t.co/JAaUjkRaF9.I notice that I have to write carefully (eg to avoid "giving away" deletions), and the prompts are lower-quality. But fast! pic.twitter.com/yTtoNZx1s7— Andy Matuschak (@andy_matuschak) May 7, 2021

Florian Cajori’s paper Leibniz, the Master-Builder of Mathematical Notations is a good short read to understand the attention paid by Leibniz to notation. It meticulously details in 10+ pages the broad range of notations devised by Leibniz! https://t.co/JN3qRTqjRs pic.twitter.com/Xabgp08bYe— Prathyush (@prathyvsh) February 1, 2021

doubt and belief, not "game-ified"—something better

Yesterday, HuggingFace launched their " HuggingFace course " — A self-paced introduction to their NLP library along with short explainers…

I'll be live-tweeting my highlights from HOPL IV, the once-in-a-generation conference about the history of programming languages. https://t.co/ZlXkiaJGqL— Will Crichton (@wcrichton) June 20, 2021

Attending HOPL IV HOPL IV will be held Sunday, June 20, through Tuesday, June 22, 2021. To attend HOPL IV, visit the main page for PLDI 2021 and follow the instructions there (register if you have not already done so; once you are registered, click the button that says “Virtual Conference Site” and then click “Sign Up” to create a password for attending). Register to attend HOPL IV HOPL IV will be held Sunday, June 20, through Tuesday, June 22, 2021. To register for HOPL IV, visit the registration page for PLDI 2021. Your single conference registration there includes access to all th ...

Very little of our software actually considers epistemic action as first-class activity - too often the ordering of a list, zoom-and-scroll of a document or visibility of a ruler is tucked away as secondary to the "real work" of making stuff. It isn't!— Brandel Zachernuk (@zachernuk) January 4, 2021

"(...) the internet is a great canvas for the Michelangelos of academic bureaucracy to paint on."- @Pinboard— Benjamin Schneider (@bschne) June 22, 2021

Ward Shelley reveals the complexities of modern world through a set of intricate, graphical maps. Reminiscent of the work of Mark Lombardi, Shelley aims at organizing interrelated facts in a single chart and make sense of hidden systems in domains like art, science and history. pic.twitter.com/gKB3D777fm— Manuel Lima (@mslima) June 22, 2021

Create colorful, collage-like blog posts

Materials from our SIGGRAPH '20 paper.

What about a deconstructed Microsoft Office where you splay all the commands that exist in the application out on a giant dynamic poster https://t.co/rHd0VA0EfU— Omar Rizwan (@rsnous) June 29, 2021

Equations often contain many symbols, but only a few unique entities which are variously referenced/indexed/transformed. I want to visualize the number of independent pieces of information, so I circle all uses of the same τ; how the output Γ' is used in the next premise; etc. pic.twitter.com/XCZ1gUaOdK— Nintendo .DS_Store in Seattle (@sliminality) June 29, 2021

Post-it notes made of sound; the reMarkable tablet's UI; a Dynamicland scrapbook

Musicians, martial artists, etc., have muscle memory. No factual recall is needed. No backlinks, no text blocks. Memory-in-practise. Understanding.Yet we have a culture which urges recall ...— Codex OS (@codexeditor) July 6, 2021

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Two excellent simultaneous trends: the incredible evolution of 3D authoring tools, and the growth of eminent practitioners streaming their work. @edoublea (of Uru, Myst V, Obduction, The Witness) has been doing an astonishing series on worldbuilding https://t.co/sSzjz7urXw— Andy Matuschak (@andy_matuschak) October 22, 2020

Today’s the day! The Book Proposal Book: A Guide for Scholarly Authors is officially OUT 🎉🎉🎉 I hope this book will help so many ppl get published 💖Yes, I knitted a hat to match my cover. We all cope with publishing a book during a pandemic in our own ways, ok? 😄🤓 pic.twitter.com/DphmtSQaPM— Laura Portwood-Stacer, Jeopardy Champ (she/her) (@lportwoodstacer) July 13, 2021

History teaches us how to be brutally honest about a problem and yet optimistic for a technological solution.

Must be cartoons, of humanoid figures, building digital interfaces The internet is built by small cartoon people who use ladders, paintbrushes, and rulers to build websites (checkboxes, buttons, charts, etc). Sometimes they wear hard hats, in case a button or another UI component falls on their head.

the new literati, assembling their own canon from the 20th century and producing a deluge of blog posts to be forgotten immediately after reading— sigfig (@sigfig) July 16, 2021

i think a theme of my Twitter account is wanting the thing /at hand/, in my way, like grabbing the pencil that's already sitting on the notebook on my deskas opposed to in theory being able to go way over there and find some GitHub repo and clone it and compile it and whatever https://t.co/wsjcEdh8rq— Omar Rizwan (@rsnous) July 16, 2021

Join Liz Voeller on an exploration through one of Herbert Simon’s key concepts and what it means for addressing complexity in our own lives. Systems demonstrate the property of “near-decomposability” when interactions WITHIN each subsystem are stronger than the interaction AMONG subsystems. This concept, made legible by Herbert Simon in his essay The Architecture of… Continue reading Herb Simon and Your Life as Nearly Decomposable Systems

I’m a fairly frequent Hacker News lurker, especially when I have some other important task that I’m avoiding. I normally head to the Active page (lots of comments, good for procrastinat…

Upon reading James Carse’s lauded work Finite and Infinite Games, I realized I’d never felt similarly about any other book. I was riveted, moved, and completely annoyed. What a tremendous concept: that we ought to spend our lives in acts of mutual generation and play, extending to infinity, rather than playing short-term zero-sum games! Also, what an irritating style of writing!

Whenever I hear "tools for thought" I think of concepts like this, which mathematics is full of. They're generic (and commonly recurring) enough to be powerful organizing forces in any area of abstract thought pic.twitter.com/NVHUeSLUOS— Weston Beecroft (@Westoncb) July 18, 2021