This is a sexy philosophy of data modelling talk [40 mins] which has far reaching implications for higher dimensional approaches to learning in systems representation. This would have been my salvation whilst I was failing maths in school.
See also his great proof of concept tech demo: http://worrydream.com/ExplorableExplanations/
One of his arguments in the latter, that emotional arguments will be trumped by allowing proposals' audiences to play intuitively with implications, intrigues me greatly.
Tagging insomniasexx for the webbery, kleinbl00 for the engineering.
Brett Victor's Rant on the future of interaction design is one of my go-tos when discussing GUI and touch screens. I'll check this out when I get a chance, but that chance may be days off. Thanks for posting.
God, yes, Brett Victor is a mad genius in a field that has really over-worked the term "genius". His website is fantastic and his work and ideas got me really jumpstarted in reconsidering how I communicate ideas and how fallible many of our methods of communication are. It's been a couple years since I've last looked at his work, but I'm still chasing that thread.
At some point he mentions "and you play with this enough to develop intuition" or something. I think that's a really good goal, but I think it might take a while for that intuition to develop. I really want to read the network paper he played with to see it in action- the energy use one he's got on the site is fun, but I'm not trying to learn something thats reliant on sort of an abstract framework. Its a cool tool he's got there, though.