What is backpropagation and what is it doing? [video]
There needs to be some sort of organized push for visualization tools. I know, I might be bringing the proverbial owls to the proverbial Athens with saying that here, but I really do feel that if done right this could impact the course of the world like nothing else. This could be as important as idk, invention of book press or smth. Make computer "the visualization machine".<p>I think that one of the fundamental problems is that to be a visualization machine, you need to have easy access of the GPU and OpenGL is provides anything but. I think that shadertoy (shadertoy.com) is the thing that comes the closest but the learning curve is kinda steep.<p>I know that people like Alan Kay, Bret Victor or Michael Nielsen (his post was on the fp the other day 
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15616637" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15616637</a>) share these sentiments but this is a task bigger than a single people.<p>Idk what I really mean by "organized push". I'm not sure if the problem is well defined too