Changing something while reading
A short discovery note on Bret Victor’s Explorable Explanations.
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KnowledgeInformation considered together with its origin, support and scope of use.Explore in AtlasDesignChoosing rules, constraints and interfaces that make a system’s behaviour possible and legible.Explore in AtlasRepresentationAn account that preserves some distinctions and collapses others for an inquiry or action.Explore in Atlas
Bret Victor proposes thinking by changing an example’s assumptions.
A question for this notebook: which part of an explanation can we place in the visitor’s hands? Predict the result, then change one variable. The gap between prediction and image may begin a new question.
Connections: The circles stay; the image changes
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The circles stay; the image changes
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