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Tidal from Alex Maclean is a domain-specific language built on top of Haskell, and his new Texture system creates more of a diagramming notation. Dave Griffiths has built his live coding environment, Fluxus, in Racket which is used in Program by Design and Bootstrap CS education projects. Dave did all his live coding at Dagstuhl…
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vizualize: Pictographs Today and Tomorrow (1938) by Rudolf Modley via FastCo.Design
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Most artists earn very little. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of aspiring young artists. Do they give to the arts willingly or unknowingly? Governments and other institutions also give to the arts, to raise the low incomes. But their support is ineffective: subsidies only increase the artists’ poverty. The economy of the arts is exceptional.…
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deterritorialization: jai—me: Sacred Valley rock quarries! This ruin in Ollentaytambo was fascinating as it has so many different types of architectures and systems – and you could SEE the logic of the layout. The quarries were pretty interesting – you could see so precisely where they had chipped into the stone to get a certain…
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The “Bad Guys” Of Engineering: What Defines “Design-Centric” Companies Like Apple | Co.Design | business design
The “Bad Guys” Of Engineering: What Defines “Design-Centric” Companies Like Apple | Co.Design | business design Intriguing story that contrasts “design driven”, “engineering driven”, and “marketing driven” enterprises. I wonder how many senses of the word “design” are deployed in this story.
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I saw four sets of computing education research questions in live coding. These are unusual research questions for me because they’re Vygotskian and non-Constructionist. Live coding is about performance. It’s not an easy task. The live coder has to know their programming language (syntax and semantics) and music improvisation (e.g., including listening to your collaborator…
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emmacooper: “Diálogo de mãos” 1966 Lygia Clark + Helio Oiticica.
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He [Alan Greenspand] said all his financial models over the past 40 years were wrong. Yet those models informed his adjustment of interest rates, and if they were based on wrong models, he likely harmed the economy, consistently, decade after decade. The Dismal Failure Of Big Data -SVW pair with Dubberly “Models of Models” from…
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I’m not sure software enables new ways of thinking, but I think it does broaden and popularize known paradigms. Through simulation, software can help people to think about complex and multivariate systems. Writing software encourages people to think clearly and systematically. New telecommunications software certainly changes the way we behave and relate to other people…
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Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the ‘pathetic’ American media
Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the ‘pathetic’ American media azspot: Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an…