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Who is Bret Victor?
by monksy 11y ago
Who is Bret Victor?
- ElijahLynn 11y agoThis is how I know him, a talk that every dev should at least know about. It is about live/realtime coding and has some pretty jaw-dropping demos. "Inventing on Principle" https://vimeo.com/36579366 https://vimeo.com/36579366
- ChristianGeek 11y agoThat was 54 minutes well spent...thanks!
- pella 11y agohttp://worrydream.com/ http://worrydream.com/
- openfuture 11y agoLooks like he's trying to reinvent math as a drawing program instead of complex notation. Or rather that is the least common multiple of everything on that site.
- pella 11y agohttps://hn.algolia.com/?query=Bret%20Victor&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=all https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Bret%20Victor&sort=byPopularit...
- emcq 11y agoA bay area resident who has several thoughtful writings and talks about human computer interaction and more recently a piece on global climate change. AFAIK he is unemployed so he has lots of free time to work on personal projects which may be inspired by the readings on his bookshelf.
- curuinor 11y agoHe's one of the PI-like people at the CDG. (http://www.fastcodesign.com/3046437/5-steps-to-recreate-xerox-parcs-design-magic-from-the-guy-who-helped-make-it http://www.fastcodesign.com/3046437/5-steps-to-recreate-xero...)
- emcq 11y agoThanks I was wondering how he would stay unemployed with his reputation and prior experiences at Apple :)
- clebio 11y agoThanks for the link. But what do you mean by "PI-like people"? I can't match that acronym to anything off-hand.
- curuinor 11y agoPrimary investigator-like people. Like, he hires researchers to work under him.
- sdbryan 11y agoProbably refers to "PI", the 1998 movie written and directed by Darren Aronofsky. The main character was an eccentric mathematician who was obsessed with patterns in the decimal expansion of the transcendal number pi. If you have not seen the movie I would encourage you to look for it as my summary is not adequate.
- curuinor 11y agoNo, I'm afraid not. He didn't seem incredibly eccentric to me, anyhow, just a ridiculously hard worker
- pazimzadeh 11y agoI'm guessing Principal Investigator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator