Sam Ritchie
Researcher, Mentat Collective
Sam is a researcher at the Mentat Collective, currently working on a series of interactive, multiplayer computational textbooks for exploring mathematical physics and other forms of modeled reality. He has worked as an engineer at (Google) X, Stripe, Twitter, and founded Paddleguru and Racehub. Sam is most well known in the software world as the author of Summingbird, Algebird, and SICMUtils, and as the maintainer of Cascalog. He has a secret identity as a mountain athlete and amateur aircraft mechanic, and lives with wife Jenna and daughter Juno in Boulder, Colorado.
Emmy: Moldable Physics and Lispy Microworlds
Over the last few years, The Clojure community has been quietly building out a set of powerful tools for interactive data exploration, mathematical exploration and symbolic computing. Projects like Clerk, Portal, REBL and Reveal are creating a whole new visual grammar and language on top of Clojure.
This talk will discuss my recent work curating and extending this set of tools into a Clojure-y environment that feels like an open-source, interactive, moldable alternative to Mathematica. We'll tour together through examples of documents that weave mathematics, prose and immersive, visually stunning microworlds, all of which are programmable by the end-user.
Thanks to Clojure's simple design and astonishing reach, this system, named the Emmy computer algebra system, is poised to make Clojure a top choice for work in computing and physics education.
Clojure/Conj 2023 Sessionize Event
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