December 2011
5 posts
WatchCheck out this video of reel to reel performance art … great stuff repurposing legacy tech to mash into something very, very new.
“Mathematics, as currently practiced, is a command line.”
– Brett Victor, in Kill Math
Read the fine article; Brett talks about changing the user interface (symbolic, abstract manipulation) of mathematics. He compares multiplication of Roman numerals (very hard) to multiplication of Arabic numerals (0-9, much easier) as an example of a state change in the...
