Bret Victor has another classic talk up : from Bret Victor on Vimeo. Watch it. The conceit is entertaining, from his clothes to the overheads. However, despite the brilliance of the presentation, I think he might be wrong. And the fact that it’s taken 40 years for these promising ideas NOT to take off, may …
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At Aharon’s prompting I had a play with node.js over the weekend. It is very good. I can see why it’s “the next BIG thing”. (See the nice starter tutorial with a very impressive minimal twitter reader.) Trying to think of something fun to do with node.js now. Also, what with getting into Urbi, “events” …
Urbi is a great, parallel, event driven language for programming robots.Watch the tutorial video. Absolutely packed with interesting control structures to handle the implicit parallelism and event-driven nature of the language. Several important ideas : free subsumption architecture (you actually run many different programs in parallel, each dealing with certain motors and sensors, but interacting …