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Logic & arithmetic merge in logic gates & binary numbers. This experimental comic visualizes from bits to adders, without encapsulating symbols. See parts in mind-numbing detail while perceiving the whole:
@scottmccloud's closure,@Nsousanis's sequential & simultaneous duality.pic.twitter.com/ovvS5ytOrW
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An elegant little lesson in design & usability: How could we make chess pieces explain what they do, rather than requiring beginners to remember the ruleset? This design by
@elzr has pieces that show you how they move, and how important they are by size. http://elzr.com/blag/chess-pieces/ …pic.twitter.com/VitcVVM54B
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Here's how I track a habit like

exercise or
music practice: if I do it at least 3 times per week, I've sustained the habit & my weekly streak is unbroken.
It's a nice mix of flexibility, minimum & motivation that works for me. My longest 2019 streak was 17 weeks!pic.twitter.com/pas0mY1N0y
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“[My stories] struggle to come to terms with what it will mean when our growing ability to scrutinize & manipulate the physical world reaches the point where it encompasses the substrate underlying our values, memories & identities.” ~
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William Godwin’s Political Justice/1793 is fantastical scientific philosophy. It inspired the best such book yet,
@DavidDeutschOxf’s Beginning of Infinity/2011. Mary Shelley, Godwin’s daughter, cristallized modern sci-fi with Frankenstein/1818, philosophical scientific fantasy.pic.twitter.com/Rq6iBzkdlm
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5 years ago I also made a comic/collage about the 5 things I was most passionate about: online communities, learning, interface culture, documents & counters. The references are now a bit dated but each facet has only grown richer with time. It remains a map of my heart & mind. https://twitter.com/elzr/status/1171505815334739968 …pic.twitter.com/4j8u1l5FNN
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Here’s some more of his work. Follow him here on Twitter or Instagram: https://instagram.com/millosketch It has me seeing panels everywhere I look!pic.twitter.com/sveEdc6zMh
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l love the fourth-wall breaking of
@Millosketch! His panel-breaking feels native to comics: a playful bending of both time (sequence) AND space (layout, perspective). Such meta games often mess with causality but he’s all about shifts in perception & POV. cc@maxkriegerspic.twitter.com/ulwFZAyike
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The
#bulletjournal movement, enabled by dot-gridded notebooks (!), seems to me about drawing your own interface & dashboard. Coming up with the representations that work best for you, sharing them, redoing them to internalize & evolve them. Not a bad inspiration for UI’s future!pic.twitter.com/mvNCzWYk3D
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When I die, burn nothing. Leave the crap there, because it’s part of my journey, and that journey has a value. People who came from where I did, and who were given the thoughts I was given, should know that the future can be different from the past. ~
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Cubes, however, can't be dissected into finitely many unequal cubes! Littlewood states it beautifully in his 1953 Mathematical Miscellany (from a 1940 paper by Tutte et al). It's philosopher Ian Hacking's favorite example of a fresh, satisfying proof. Here's the proof as comic:pic.twitter.com/HitCWF5YDg
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Squares can be dissected into non-repeating squares! This is called perfect square dissection, squaring the square. This one's the smallest possible, a lovely arithmetic/geometric pattern you can check sudoku-like. See http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PerfectSquareDissection.html … &
@robinhouston's thread for lore. https://twitter.com/robinhouston/status/1180418177660006400 …pic.twitter.com/EV9tOSRz8O
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Yes to all this! I was also very taken by how self-similar Huizenga's spiral was: circles in a circley coil, growing as they zoom. Biological structures are made of such coilings to achieve density! I'm even imagining a zoom interaction like
@HemisphereGames's Osmos.pic.twitter.com/z1hpilmeg8
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Love the question! Trees of constant branching can take you from Roman to positional numerals in a short, visual path that skips algebra. Name leaves by their branch sequence. Enumerate. Then, to keep leaf names level-invariant ignore the first branch's symbol (0!) when leading.pic.twitter.com/P04iMLrElc
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A monthmap by decade from 2020-1901. This gets autobiographical fast: Map out your life across the years! Make one for your parents! Get topsight. This link will make a PRIVATE copy on YOUR Google Sheets. It’s just a spreadsheet so go ahead & change it! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17Si_BWheUfTdMC8ocKGT-losvbGpwYNHX5CbqbGnbQs/copy …pic.twitter.com/xXQYLZkT9T
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A weekmap of 2019:
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+
. Reflect on the year as you live it. Annotate your weeks with plans, summaries, landmarks. See how long since & until.
This link will make a PRIVATE copy on YOUR Google Sheets. It’s just a spreadsheet so go ahead & change it! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Qz4Y6KUzZNI87Be-tsFTqDGYAMzkZhM1hda5lgJJ-GY/copy …pic.twitter.com/QMkeDIKSW6
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I want better ways to orient myself in time. Something like
calendar &
journal, with a bit of
spreadsheet.
I’m a
goldfish with time: always forgetting, misremembering, jumbling.
So I made these
TIME MAPS. Me & some friends love using them. Now you can try them too!pic.twitter.com/QHctsSKQU5
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You can translate a computer program into a set of tiles: attempting to tile the plane necessarily 'runs' the program. Here's a tiling attempt using tiles from a palindrome-checking program, on inputs 10010 and 10101. Details in thread, 1/n. (I'm fond of this one, please RT)pic.twitter.com/xrKACp3Zz3
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Feliz cumpleaños Mexico!
Me da gusto haber nacido dentro de un idioma con cosas tan bellas como La Chona de @LosTucanesDeTJ, el Ojalá de Silvio Rodríguez y el análisis de@lufloro: https://twitter.com/lufloro/status/1128901632094285824 …pic.twitter.com/UXnrpSP6Bf
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It's funny that I found this today, a year ago to this day I did a self-similar tile-map: it's just a static image but manages to be interactively recursive by your standing on it.https://twitter.com/elzr/status/1040323610999570432 …
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Sometimes you exist in several scales at the same time!https://twitter.com/clockworkpat/status/1134692901424787457 …
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