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CREATED:20250618T183855Z
DESCRIPTION:<br><b>Date &amp\; Time</b>: 2025-06-27 (Fri) @ 12 pm EST (9
  am PST)<br><b>Zoom Link</b>: <a href="https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/852838
 71524">https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/85283871524</a><br><b>Topic</b>: Simul
 ations and Understanding<br><b>Speaker</b>: <a href="https://andymatusch
 ak.org/" target="_blank">Andy Matuschak</a><br><b>Bio</b>: Andy is an ap
 plied researcher\, focused on creating user interfaces that expand what 
 people can think and do. His current focus is an augmented book which ac
 tively helps people understand\, remember\, and use what they read. He b
 elieves personal computers can enable transformative tools for thought: 
 environments that radically transform what people can think and do\, so 
 much so that we expand the set of thoughts it’s possible to think. He wa
 nts to produce alien cognitive and creative powers—as wondrous and magic
 al to us today as a modern visual effects artist might seem to a cave pa
 inter.<br><b>Note</b>: A key dream for computing pioneers like Alan Kay 
 and Seymour Papert was that we'd replace inert textual or symbolic expla
 nations with real-time interactive simulations. As a result\, people wou
 ld understand complex topics much more easily. How has this dream fared?
  We'll examine that broad question in general\, and by way of one of the
  most elaborate examplars\, Earth Primer by Chaim Gingold (contributor t
 o Will Wright's Spore\, author of Building SimCity\, and member of Bret 
 Victor's lab at HARC). We'll also discuss the debate in cognitive psycho
 logy about the role of these abstractions in understanding.<br><b>Readin
 g</b>: <a href="https://www.earthprimer.com/">Earth Primer</a> (focus on
  "Interior" and "Surface" chapters)\, <a href="https://andymatuschak.org
 /files/papers/Kirschner%20et%20al%20-%202006%20-%20Why%20Minimal%20Guida
 nce%20During%20Instruction%20Does%20Not%20Work.pdf">Why Minimal Guidance
  During Instruction Does Not Work</a><br><b>Moderator</b>: <a href="http
 s://sanghosuh.github.io/" target="_blank">Sangho Suh</a><br><br><b>Detai
 ls</b>: <a href="https://dynamicabstractions.github.io/reading-group">ht
 tps://dynamicabstractions.github.io/reading-group</a>
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SUMMARY:June - Dynamic Abstractions Reading Group
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