August 2023
CCC talk
by Bret Victor, Luke Iannini, Shawn Douglas
The first scientific conference talk in Realtalk.
Annotated video with summary: Improvising cellular playgrounds in Realtalk (2023)
Includes Publication movies, DNA nanotechnology timeline, Nucleotide cards, Helix tubes, and DNA bricks editor.
Earlier: Biomolecular design (2022)
Later: CCA talk (2023)
The dream: The communal science lab
The talk itself was not recorded, so we mostly just have photos of before and after.
The hands-on room, the next day.
Making of.
07/02/23
Bret Victor
CCC talk
We've been confirmed for a talk at the CCC retreat on August 10. Let's...
07/03/23
Luke Iannini
Re: CCC talk
Yes, sounds awesome! The outline sounds great, and to add to it, the project Shawn &...
07/06/23
Shawn Douglas
Re: CCC talk
My notes from today's call: Context We discussed what context(s) to...
07/06/23
Bret Victor
Re: CCC talk
One important idea that Shawn mentioned was to explicitly frame the talk as, "we are...
07/13/23
Bret Victor
Re: CCC talk
Today, Shawn, Joanne, and I visited the SFSU Bay Conference Center in...
07/15/23
Luke Iannini
Re: CCC talk
Thanks for all this scouting work!! My intuition says we'll have the easiest time by...
07/18/23
Bret Victor
Re: CCC talk
Here's the outline from today's meeting. Presentation Introduction to...
07/21/23
Bret Victor
Re: CCC talk
This is just a straight transcript of my handwritten notes from yesterday's meeting....
07/21/23
Shawn Douglas
Re: CCC talk
Minor correction: I misremembered the type of atoms used by IBM — it was Xenon, not...
07/23/23
Bret Victor
Re: CCC talk
Here's a sketch of a script. It seems long, but it can probably move fast because...
07/24/23
Bret Victor
Re: CCC talk
Ned's junctions, day 1. [Ned's junctions day 1.mov] As I mention, the...
07/25/23
Luke Iannini
Re: CCC talk
This is all fantastic! I made some fixes to PDF-to-image rendering, which...
07/25/23
Shawn Douglas
Re: CCC talk
Some thoughts before tomorrow's meeting... Presentation length and scope...
07/25/23
Bret Victor
Re: CCC talk
DNA tubes. (4 min) [DNA tubes.mov]...
07/26/23
Bret Victor
Re: CCC talk
DNA tubes. (4 min) [DNA tubes.mov] Thought I should share this...
07/29/23
Bret Victor
Re: CCC talk
DNA timeline, take 1: [DNA timeline, take 1.mov] (10 min) Here's a...
07/30/23
Luke Iannini
Re: CCC talk
Great!! It looks awesome and I can see the shape of the presentation really nicely! I...
08/01/23
Shawn Douglas
Re: CCC talk
I didn't visually mock up specific scenarios for what we might do with papers and...
08/13/23
Bret Victor
Re: CCC talk
Despite a truly unbelievable series of difficulties during setup, we did in fact...
08/14/23
Bret Victor
Re: CCC talk
A few ideas for making presentations in Realtalk go more smoothly: Setup Jam....
08/21/23
Luke Iannini
Re: CCC talk
It sounds like a huge success for sure!! Extra incredible given the very short...
08/21/23
Luke Iannini
Re: CCC talk
Yeah, I love all these and I'd be super excited to think about a Setup Kit — I agree...