Marvin Minsky and The Ultimate TinkerToy
An essay on the legacy of Marvin Minsky with programmable interactive simulations
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Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
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‘The Department of Objects’ Brings the Charm of Sleep-Away Camp to Chicago
Wyatt Hersey, Melissa Lakey, Esther Pearl Watson, and Anna Valdez joined Joy Machine at Camp Wandawega for five days of arctic magic. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article ‘The…
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The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)
69 images of kite flying from across 5 centuries and some dozen countries.
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Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (early 19th century)
By manipulating paper flaps, the child could turn Adam into Eve into a mermaid, a lion into a griffin into an eagle — all while learning about the inevitability of death.
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a christmas game
the first Flash game I ever put online and it's a clone of Snake ughhh
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A Neural Network Playground
tinker with a neural network right in your browser
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Mindstorms
"mindstorms: children, computers, and powerful ideas", an influential 1980 book by seymour papert
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:the game:
some stupid Flash game I made when I was 13 that got inexplicably popular
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