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Aug 25, 2018

looks like Khan Academy is recording peoples’ learning process more and more. I open sourced Vimsical. Maybe it can provide some ideas around recording storing and branching of learning processes / tinkering.

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dennis in berlin

@denik

· Jun 16, 2018

#Vimsical is now open source! A highly granular version control system and coding environment written to run in the browser and cloud. Try it: vimsical.com/vims/5969777d- Code by @dsturb and me, with earlier versions by @jannispohlmann VCS Code: github.com/vimsical/vimsi #Clojure

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Andy Matuschak

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We’re *super* interested in branching representations of people’s thought processes. We sketched some designs around that for this work and another project[1] though they never made it into either one’s pilots. Excited to do more here. [1] khanacademy.org/research/repor

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Spent a lot of time thinking about this. Happy to 🧠🌪. Great work, btw!

dennis in berlin

@denik

Aug 26, 2018

We wrote the VCS to be medium-agnostic, e.g. strings, mouse coordinates, shapes etc can all be tracked. Comes with auto scaling persistence layer using a Cassandra cluster on the backend. Can wrap a thin API around it and it would be ready for use.