The past future of programming.

Could of lovely videos by Bret Victor - a former visionary at Apple he wrote magic ink the most inspirational thing about UI I ever read.

 http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/

Bret Victor - The Future of Programming from Bret Victor on Vimeo.

The Humane Representation of Thought from Bret Victor on Vimeo.

Discovery of the day DeepGaze

Basically someone has programmed a neural network to simulate what would happen if you had an eye tracker and a group fo subjects. It was intended for mobile eye tracking in scene  ( ie saliency ) 

https://deepgaze.bethgelab.org/

I tried  this page web page

Kind of works with my intuition of where people look at the page 

What do people think? Does anyone know of someone has does this for a web page. 

Seems like it would be very useful for designers - design page try it out on auto ‘eye tracking’ the redesigning to get the right things noticed. 

File under: I wish I had thought of that… 

Back with out a bang

Stuff to read

https://www.nber.org/papers/w24174.pdf

Inequality is one of the main challenges posed by the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) and other forms of worker-replacing technological progress. This paper provides a taxonomy of the associated economic issues: First, we discuss the general conditions under which new technologies such as AI may lead to a Pareto improvement. Secondly, we delineate the two main channels through which inequality is affected – the surplus arising to innovators and redistributions arising from factor price changes. Third, we provide several simple economic models to describe how policy can counter these effects, even in the case of a “singularity” where machines come to dominate human labor. Under plausible conditions, non-distortionary taxation can be levied to compensate those who otherwise might lose. Fourth, we describe the two main channels through which technological progress may lead to technological unemployment – via efficiency wage effects and as a transitional phenomenon. Lastly, we speculate on how technologies to create super-human levels of intelligence may affect inequality and on how to save humanity from the Malthusian destiny that may ensue.