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Shawn Douglas - Nanoscale Instruments for Visualizing Small Proteins & Bret Victor - Dynamicland

Foresight Institute · talk · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

A Foresight Institute workshop video with two talks: Shawn Douglas on nanoscale instruments for visualizing small proteins, and Bret Victor on Dynamicland. Victor's part shows biomolecular design built in his Realtalk system with physical objects.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to Bret Victor's segment as a recent, concrete demonstration of Dynamicland's ideas applied to a specific scientific domain.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Really impressive stuff, as usual.”

    Biomolecular design in Realtalk showcasing Dynamicland strengths

    StevenOtto, 2023-07 · Strong recommendation · in “Bret Victor: Update July 2023”

  2. “It shows just how far the Dynamicland concept can be pushed into a hyperspecific feature set customized to fit a single domain”

    Dynamicland applied to protein visualization with physical objects

    jimmySixDOF, 2023-01 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Has anyone fully attempted Bret Victor's vision?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: bret victor, dynamicland, realtalk, protein visualization, physical computing

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