When you're overwhelmed with over-philosophical questions about life, there's only one thing to do: make a graph.
Here's a totally scientific graph of all things people make. Each dot is a thing. Th...
2018-08-28 14:09:31 +0000 UTC View Post
After three weeks of jamming, peeps made 19 new small, playful explorable explanations! Here they are:
2018-08-20 20:41:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi all! Sorry I didn't update in a while – I forgot to mention I was going on "vacation". I say "vacation" because I ended up working on stuff anyway... including co-organizing an in-person 2018-08-12 20:21:29 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, I made two mini-prototypes for my next explorable, on the science of learning! You can see them in the GIF above. (imgur ...
2018-07-21 23:54:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, here's the official announcement + website for the first-ever Explorable Explanations "game" jam!
2018-07-09 15:11:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Just thought I'd give a quick update, if you're interested in my process!
Two weeks ago, you voted for "Learn How To Learn" as my next explorable. When I start a new project, I sketch out a fe...
2018-07-02 17:51:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week, I posted a survey for you to help me decide which explorable to make next. And, the peopl...
2018-06-21 20:03:22 +0000 UTC View Post
This time, I want to teach not just an idea, but a SKILL. So let me ask you, dear reader, what skill do you want to learn?
Hey you know how I try to make informative, insightful, valuable things? Well this is not one of those.
(🌸^ ω ^) I AM BECOME A...
2018-06-08 15:48:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Why do systems – cultures, environments, economies – seem to get stuck, then change all at once? Here's a mini-interactive about one of my favorite ideas, attractor landscapes!
An interactive guide to networks and humans:
😐http://ncase.me/crowds/ 😐
🐦2018-04-27 15:57:37 +0000 UTC
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Two weeks ago, I said I predicted I'd be done with The Wisdom and/or Madness of the Crowds by tomorrow, April 20th Friday. Turns out, I forgot to take into account Hofstadter's Law, whi...
2018-04-19 21:46:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all! I'm pretty excited (and relieved) to announce that The Wisdom and/or Madness of the Crowds is very close to finished! I expect it to be out on April 20th, Friday. ...
2018-04-08 18:10:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I think we're halfway there! The above GIF (if you can't see it, try this imgur mirror) is the rough version of a level ed...
2018-03-10 18:28:48 +0000 UTC View PostHi all! I'm back from my trip to DynamicLand, where I spent a couple weeks in THE FUTURE or at least the research lab that's trying to do that. Next week, I'll post some videos I ...
2018-03-01 12:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Lots of people have written about the promises and pitfalls of AI: Artificial Intelligence. This month, I wrote an article for MIT about AI's forgotten cousin, IA: Intelligence Augmentation! &nb...
2018-02-06 20:01:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Two weeks ago, I posted a survey so you could help me decide what explorable explanation to make next! The results are in, and today, you get to play with the prototype you voted for:
In April 2017, I sent out a survey to you peeps, to help me decide which one of three explorable explanation i...
2018-01-12 16:22:43 +0000 UTC View PostWelp, it's the end of 2017. What a year for the world news-wise, but I'm not gonna talk about that right now, juuuuust gonna talk about you and me.
I'm deeply grateful – 2017 was the first y...
2017-12-31 17:40:21 +0000 UTC View Post
AHHHHH IT'S OUT AHHHHHHHHHHH
JOY.JS – make happy little programs!
Thank you all so much f...
2017-12-20 21:09:52 +0000 UTC View Post
By now, you should've gotten the good news from Patreon -- they listened, and are NOT going to go ahead with the controversial fee structure change they proposed last week!
Read Jack Conte'...
2017-12-15 16:21:47 +0000 UTC View PostHi all -- as you may have seen by now, Patreon sent out an email announcing a change they're gonna make to fee collection. And, as you may also have seen by now, a lot of artists an...
2017-12-08 17:00:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Whoof, sorry for the silence the last couple weeks, I've been crunching away trying to pull together a demo. What demo? THIS DEMO:
Oh hey, a Patreon update! This week, I added a powerful new feature to my upcoming "programming with plain words" tool -- variables & basic math!
COME JOIN ME IN THE SPIRAL
2017-10-22 14:28:49 +0000 UTC
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Don't worry, I'm still working on PEEPS. But as I was working on it, I found out that making the simulation was the easy part -- it's actually letting the player "program" the simulation 2017-10-14 16:55:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, the first of a series of prototypes I'm making this+next month! This one's a Patreon exclusive, just for y'all~
...also because it's too embarrassingly unfinished for me to make it pu...
2017-09-30 16:39:21 +0000 UTC View Post
If you liked my interactive learn-by-playing thingies, you might like my new, new Explorable Explanations site, released today!
2017-08-31 19:03:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally, the recorded video is online! Now you can watch me flail my arms around and act out the Boids algorithm with my body
“July 2017 summary: +255 Patrons”
Wowzers McTrousers.
I’m absolutely humbled by the response y’all had to The Evolution of Trust! Sure, there’s the ...
