Computational Duplo train track layouts
cr31.co.uk
cr31.co.uk
“A Subway Named Turing”
Subscription-required link : https://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v271/n3/pd...
Love the closing line (as the train passengers discussing the concept of train logic circuits realise they haven’t come to a station in awhile):
>“This isn't any touring machine," the guard said indignantly. "This is a personnel commuter, buddy." >At least, I think that's what he said.
Of course you can always access academic papers using sci-hub ;) https://sci-hub.tw/10.1038/scientificamerican0994-104
"Introductions to Monads" are a dime a dozen, but this one, which uses train track analogies (a monad is just an adapter that changes a noncomposable function into a composable segment for a path), was the one that got the entire concept to click for me. Highly recommended.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2se36e/binary_...
I thought Duplo was just the Lego for babies?
Duplo is the oversize brick line for smaller children.
And it has train sets. Lego used to have train sets, several systems, in fact, but they stopped doing that.
Well, always, the Lego City line has some trains with tracks, but it‘s not really a train system like the old ones.
There are also Quatro blocks which are twice the size of Duplo. These have been discontinued: http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/QUATRO
This does make them more suitable for younger kids (because they are less likely to be choking hazards and require less fine motor skills)