Four short links: 2 September 2019

Enigma Simulator, Robot Startups, Code as Type, and Conversational Modeling

1. Visual Enigma Machine Simulator — this is the triple threat: interesting, of historic interest, and PURTY. (via Tom MacWright)
2. Move Fast and (Don’t) Break Things: Commercializing Robotics at the Speed of Venture Capital (YouTube) — interesting talk from a conference whose theme was “Notable Failures.”
3. Leon Sans — a geometric sans-serif typeface made with code. It draws on an HTML Canvas so you can futz with the typeface yourself to get nifty effects. The demos are cool.
4. Microsoft Icecaps — an open source toolkit with a focus on conversational modeling.

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