As a side thought: One of the things I always sensed from this forum is a deep affinity for different ways of understanding things. So, not surprisingly, many converge and are enthralled by Bret Victor, though there are many (Nielsen, Matuschak, the web you linked, 3blue1brown, Jonathan Blow.)
So I think that exploring different mediums can be and end on itself rather than just making visualizations to understand a given subject (I get a sense of that from your comment, and I hope you explore it further!)
Cheers for the encouragement! I share your intuition, it is what prompted me to post here.
A quick sitewide search showed that Bret Victor’s name has come up before in discussion on LW, but not as much as I would expect. Anyway I had totally missed Matuschak out of that list, so on the growing list of references he goes :)
I have heard of Bret Victor behavior but in addition to watching a talk of him I didn’t really found a way to deeper engage with his work. Do you have recommendations about how to best dive into his work?
this essay on how to explore a concept/problem from multiple angles, focusing on how neglected visuals are in that process
this poster which summarizes his ongoing research in this area. I think its a powerful vision. Google Dynamicland if you want to find more of his recent work
That is correct, which is a crying shame. There’s some videos to be found of people who were invited to visit at some point, but yeah there’s very little to be found :(
As a side thought: One of the things I always sensed from this forum is a deep affinity for different ways of understanding things. So, not surprisingly, many converge and are enthralled by Bret Victor, though there are many (Nielsen, Matuschak, the web you linked, 3blue1brown, Jonathan Blow.)
So I think that exploring different mediums can be and end on itself rather than just making visualizations to understand a given subject (I get a sense of that from your comment, and I hope you explore it further!)
Cheers for the encouragement! I share your intuition, it is what prompted me to post here. A quick sitewide search showed that Bret Victor’s name has come up before in discussion on LW, but not as much as I would expect. Anyway I had totally missed Matuschak out of that list, so on the growing list of references he goes :)
I have heard of Bret Victor behavior but in addition to watching a talk of him I didn’t really found a way to deeper engage with his work. Do you have recommendations about how to best dive into his work?
Hi, there’s two things I can recommend.
this essay on how to explore a concept/problem from multiple angles, focusing on how neglected visuals are in that process
this poster which summarizes his ongoing research in this area. I think its a powerful vision. Google Dynamicland if you want to find more of his recent work
That sounds that unless one can visit dynamicland it’s currently not possible to be really exposed to his work?
That is correct, which is a crying shame. There’s some videos to be found of people who were invited to visit at some point, but yeah there’s very little to be found :(