Dan Scanlon Call 9/5/17

• Listened to a few of my podcasts while on a long drive!

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