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Bret Victor - Seeing Spaces

Bret Victor's talk proposing a new kind of maker space built for seeing and understanding a project's behavior: inside it, across time and across possibilities. It argues for scientific understanding over recipes and rules of thumb.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Listed alongside his other talks as foundational context for Dynamicland and visual-programming ideas, and he is the most frequently cited speaker on such threads.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Colin McDonnell
Topic
tools for understanding systems
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
6
Recommendation years in dataset
2017–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Highly recommend Bret's 2 talks for context: [1] Seeing Spaces: [VIDEO] [2] Humane Representation of Thought: [LINK]

    skadamat on Hacker News · 2017-10
    In The HARC First Year Report

  • It's going to be entirely different I feel. Instead of manipulating graphics on a flat screen, focus will probably be on manipulating physical objects on a table / in a room. Watch his 2 talks that highlight the thinking and inspiration behind the RealTalk project: …

    skadamat on Hacker News · 2017-06
    In Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck?

  • on one level, yes on another, they're down right scary and overwhelming, or at least dumbfounding and perplexing ..thinking specifically about The Humane Representation of Thought [LINK] I had to stop it half way through.. :-/ see also Seeing Spaces [VIDEO] and Media for Thinking …

    mitchtbaum on Hacker News · 2018-10
    In Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?

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