updates

agents.html

@@ -216,14 +216,17 @@ <h1><a href="index.html">Foundations</a></h1>
 
 He remembered being inspired as a child by **gears**, as **"object-to-think-with"**, which he used practically as a model to understand mathematics & physics (and more).
 
-> "My thesis could be summarized as: What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer's essence is its universality, its power to simulate. Because it can take on a thousand forms and can serve a thousand functions, it can appeal to a thousand tastes. [Mindstorms] is a result of my own attempts... to turn computers into flexible enough instruments that many children can each create for themselves something like what the gears were for me."
+> "My thesis could be summarized as: What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer's essence is its universality, its power to simulate. Because it can take on a thousand forms and can serve a thousand functions, it can appeal to a thousand tastes."
 
 notes:
 
 A relevant aside: Papert was also firmly against the "schizophrenic" separation of humanists-artists and scientists-engineers (because in practice, **knowing-that** (propositional knowledge) and **knowing-how** (procedural knowledge) are very rarely separated.) He believed that computers may be a tool to break this division. 
 
 ---
 
+> "[Mindstorms] is a result of my own attempts... to turn computers into flexible enough instruments that many children can each create for themselves something like what the gears were for me."
+
+
 This shouldn't mean making the computer teach--"the computer programming the child"--instead the child must program the computer, through having a conversation with it.
 
 - Not instructing mathematics, but exploring in "mathland" (not teaching French, but living in France)

agents.md

@@ -95,14 +95,17 @@ Seymour Papert was a psychologist and mathematician, and education theorist, dee
 
 He remembered being inspired as a child by **gears**, as **"object-to-think-with"**, which he used practically as a model to understand mathematics & physics (and more).
 
-> "My thesis could be summarized as: What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer's essence is its universality, its power to simulate. Because it can take on a thousand forms and can serve a thousand functions, it can appeal to a thousand tastes. [Mindstorms] is a result of my own attempts... to turn computers into flexible enough instruments that many children can each create for themselves something like what the gears were for me."
+> "My thesis could be summarized as: What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer's essence is its universality, its power to simulate. Because it can take on a thousand forms and can serve a thousand functions, it can appeal to a thousand tastes."
 
 notes:
 
 A relevant aside: Papert was also firmly against the "schizophrenic" separation of humanists-artists and scientists-engineers (because in practice, **knowing-that** (propositional knowledge) and **knowing-how** (procedural knowledge) are very rarely separated.) He believed that computers may be a tool to break this division. 
 
 ---
 
+> "[Mindstorms] is a result of my own attempts... to turn computers into flexible enough instruments that many children can each create for themselves something like what the gears were for me."
+
+
 This shouldn't mean making the computer teach--"the computer programming the child"--instead the child must program the computer, through having a conversation with it.
 
 - Not instructing mathematics, but exploring in "mathland" (not teaching French, but living in France)

index.html

@@ -571,15 +571,25 @@ <h2 id="machine-intelligence-and-autonomous-agents">Machine intelligence and aut
 <p>There&#39;s lots of different ways we could approach this subject. For the purposes of our DIGM5010 course: what are some of the <strong>foundations</strong> of our field that may inform this? </p>
 <p>Let&#39;s follow back through a selective history.</p>
 <ul>
-<li>Slides: <a href="agents.html">Tortoises, turtles, robot flocks and vehicle societies</a></li>
+<li><strong>Slides</strong>: <a href="agents.html">Tortoises, turtles, robot flocks and vehicle societies</a></li>
 <li>Refrences:<ul>
 <li><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nUFDBRNpvKXp3-JiYwBIuN0a55T4vb-Y">Papert, Seymour A. Mindstorms (Excerpts)</a> </li>
-<li><a href="https://tinlizzie.org/tinkertoy/">Alan Kay. Marvin Minsky &amp; The Ultimate Tinkertoy</a></li>
-<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FcBQEl6E3hvNy3q-ow4HaFn2jtOPaxvA">Braitenberg, Valentino. Vehicles. 1984</a></li>
-<li><a href="https://www.red3d.com/cwr/steer/gdc99/">Craig Reynolds. Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters, Game Developers Conference. 1999</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://tinlizzie.org/tinkertoy/">Alan Kay. Marvin Minsky &amp; The Ultimate Tinkertoy</a> -- with an embedded explorable</li>
+<li><a href="https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1982-08/1982_08_BYTE_07-08_Logo#page/n0/mode/2up">An archive from Byte magazine, 1982</a> -- pages 88 to 290<ul>
+<li>Can you make a Logo emulator?</li>
 </ul>
 </li>
-<li>Reproducing research: <a href="steering.html">Steering behaviours for vehicles and flocks</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FcBQEl6E3hvNy3q-ow4HaFn2jtOPaxvA">Braitenberg, Valentino. Vehicles. 1984</a><ul>
+<li>Can you make a Vehicle world?</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="https://www.red3d.com/cwr/steer/gdc99/">Craig Reynolds. Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters, Game Developers Conference. 1999</a><ul>
+<li>Can you make a flocking simulator?</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><strong>Reproducing research</strong>: <a href="steering.html">Steering behaviours for vehicles and flocks</a></li>
 </ul>
 <!--
 - [Zoom recording](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_yZch7K50LojaVojQeUDublwyVCf5GAh/view?usp=sharing)

index.md

@@ -545,13 +545,17 @@ There's lots of different ways we could approach this subject. For the purposes
 
 Let's follow back through a selective history.
 
-- Slides: [Tortoises, turtles, robot flocks and vehicle societies](agents.html)
+- **Slides**: [Tortoises, turtles, robot flocks and vehicle societies](agents.html)
 - Refrences:
   - [Papert, Seymour A. Mindstorms (Excerpts)](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nUFDBRNpvKXp3-JiYwBIuN0a55T4vb-Y) 
-  - [Alan Kay. Marvin Minsky & The Ultimate Tinkertoy](https://tinlizzie.org/tinkertoy/)
+  - [Alan Kay. Marvin Minsky & The Ultimate Tinkertoy](https://tinlizzie.org/tinkertoy/) -- with an embedded explorable
+  - [An archive from Byte magazine, 1982](https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1982-08/1982_08_BYTE_07-08_Logo#page/n0/mode/2up) -- pages 88 to 290
+    - Can you make a Logo emulator?
   - [Braitenberg, Valentino. Vehicles. 1984](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FcBQEl6E3hvNy3q-ow4HaFn2jtOPaxvA)
+    - Can you make a Vehicle world?
   - [Craig Reynolds. Steering Behaviors For Autonomous Characters, Game Developers Conference. 1999](https://www.red3d.com/cwr/steer/gdc99/)
-- Reproducing research: [Steering behaviours for vehicles and flocks](steering.html)
+    - Can you make a flocking simulator?
+- **Reproducing research**: [Steering behaviours for vehicles and flocks](steering.html)
 
 
 <!--