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Cryptocurrency and ML are at least as cool and interesting as visualization design, and online privacy is at least as important. Bret Victor's work is both cool
by AlexCoventry 9y ago
Cryptocurrency and ML are at least as cool and interesting as visualization design, and online privacy is at least as important. Bret Victor's work is both cool and important, of course, but I think it's in a bit of a cul de sac right now. It makes for awesome demos, but it's harder to generalize and democratize than he makes it look -- some further technological breakthrough is needed, I think. That breakthrough might well be related to ML...
- loup-vaillant 9y agoMuch of Bret Victor's work revolve around a single mantra: shorten the feedback loop. In his examples, the feedback loop is so short that it amounts to real time interactivity. I think that's pretty easy to generalise and democratise. You have to care about it in the first place, though. I'm not sure enough people do.
- AlexCoventry 9y agoHis examples revolve around bespoke visualizations, though.