dan-scanlon-call-9-5-17.html

<h1 id="dan-scanlon-call-9517">Dan Scanlon Call 9/5/17</h1>

<ul>
  <li>
    <p>Listened to a few of my podcasts while on a long drive!</p>
  </li>
  <li>Used to work at TabTour, now call Thinkster math
    <ul>
      <li>got excited about Bret Victor here</li>
      <li>“Netflix for worksheets”
        <ul>
          <li>they aren’t leveraging their medium (iPad) as much as possible</li>
        </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Now works at Analytical Flavor System
    <ul>
      <li>describe flavor profiles</li>
      <li>sell the insights to food and beverage companies</li>
      <li>friends of his, from Penn State, hung out at hackathons</li>
      <li>leaving now, because of a cash crunch</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Futurism
    <ul>
      <li>also his friend Alex and his friend Jordan</li>
      <li>just made him a large offer to be head of engineering</li>
      <li>media company, including blog</li>
      <li>make investments and do new product development</li>
      <li>thesis: “stuff that represents the future”</li>
      <li>started two years ago</li>
      <li>it’s grown really fast</li>
      <li>by using anaytics</li>
      <li>have audience of several million</li>
      <li>they started gravity blanket</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>His past future of programming research
    <ul>
      <li>GraphQL + Datomic</li>
      <li>React Native WYSIWYG</li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>In free time, future of programming research
    <ul>
      <li>Bret Victor, stop drawing dead fish, and dynamic visualizations
        <ul>
          <li>funciton out of sequences through interactions with canvas
            <ul>
              <li>start with line</li>
              <li>manipulate that line</li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li>TODO send him aprt.us</li>
          <li>new reframing
            <ul>
              <li>types as shapes makes things more intuative
                <ul>
                  <li>he wasnts to think about types as spaces
                    <ul>
                      <li>boolean is a number line, but only at 0 or 1</li>
                      <li>analytical flavor system flavor profile is 24-dimensional space, where each scalar is represented 1-5</li>
                    </ul>
                  </li>
                  <li>interact with something in space
                    <ul>
                      <li>that interaction turns into a series of frames</li>
                      <li>“moving a fish vertically up will cause one frame be to created”</li>
                      <li>“how do I animate moving the fish up?”
                        <ul>
                          <li>loop the sequence so that last position of the fish is the new origin</li>
                        </ul>
                      </li>
                    </ul>
                  </li>
                </ul>
              </li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li>FramerJS
            <ul>
              <li>constrast: it’s not UI-data-binding, because the thing you’re interacting with in the canvas is not neccesarily a visual output
                <ul>
                  <li>can visualize any Abstract Data Types</li>
                </ul>
              </li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li>example app
            <ul>
              <li>move your finger across screen and get different wave sounds</li>
              <li>
                <ol>
                  <li>create touch event sequence</li>
                </ol>
              </li>
              <li>
                <ol>
                  <li>put circle on screen in corner</li>
                </ol>
              </li>
              <li>
                <ol>
                  <li>draw a line to it from the x-axis and y-axis</li>
                </ol>
              </li>
              <li>
                <ol>
                  <li>label the value of the magnitue of those lines</li>
                </ol>
              </li>
              <li>
                <ol>
                  <li>map the value of these values to the speaker</li>
                </ol>
              </li>
            </ul>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </li>
      <li>doing this research in his free time
        <ul>
          <li>restraining himself from coding it himself</li>
          <li>trying to think it out in his head, hypothetically</li>
          <li>TODO Elliot Conal denotational design</li>
        </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>Get his feedback on my research
    <ul>
      <li>StreamSheets
        <ul>
          <li>The inspiration of his project (Aberration) is in order to have a truly powerful system, you have to be able to manipulate the lower levels of a system within that system so you can “lift the hood”
            <ul>
              <li>Related to Alan Kay STEPS</li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li>Thinking about the complex pieces of data that will push the boundaries of your interface
            <ul>
              <li>Visualizing nested objects, for example, was hard in a prior prototype of his but will be better in Aberration
                <ul>
                  <li>TODO ask if he has picture of Aberration</li>
                </ul>
              </li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li>If you’re trying to make a game
            <ul>
              <li>you have x-position and y-position</li>
            </ul>
          </li>
        </ul>
      </li>
    </ul>
  </li>
  <li>TODO add to slack group</li>
</ul>

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