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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
This is a thoughtful new review of the “interactive explanation” milieu: distill.pub/2020/communica. I’m a friend of the format—I’ve written articles like this myself—but I worry it’s trapped in a limited framing, selling short the potential of computational representations.
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Communicating with Interactive Articles
Examining the design of interactive articles by synthesizing theory from disciplines such as education, journalism, and visualization.
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Brad Larson
@bradlarson
As an anecdote, I’m working on the models presented here: distill.pub/2020/selforg/ and I doubt that I would have understood the importance of that work, or been able to reproduce it as quickly, without the interactive examples and animated descriptions. I see your points, though.
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Thread: Differentiable Self-organizing Systems
A collection of articles and comments with the goal of understanding how to design robust and general purpose self-organizing systems.
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