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Comment on architects’ pay? by Steve

Steve — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:10:02 +0000

This is something I get really animated about as well, and all I can say is that I’m thankful I’m not an architect. Your proposal is interesting in this neo-con survival of the fittest way, but unfortunately I think if it were to happen that architects would be far worse off than they are now. Most clients (with a few exceptions) build buildings because they have to, not because they want to. In these cases clients are using architects to reduce their exposure to risk (talk to an architect about professional liability insurance), if architects no longer have this professional designation there would be plenty of people willing to take that risk on (construction managers for example). Then architects would become mainly style consultants, not unlike interior designers. Also, in the US hairstylists are required to hold professional licenses that are usually administered by the same body that administers architectural licenses, so your analogy doesn’t really work here.

Comment on Union Square by Steve

Steve — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:42:41 +0000

No you really shouldn’t go to Dubai… it sucks balls.

Comment on words I have a great deal of disdain for by ben

ben — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:21:06 +0000

http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/09/architecture-as-instrument-talk/

It turns out that the architectonic section actually is a real thing. It is a drawing instrument used for constructing proportions.

The link above is to a talk about it that I attended at the museum of the history of science.

Comment on Genetic algorithms lecture by notion parallax – Smart Geometry, TU Delft and Pirates

notion parallax – Smart Geometry, TU Delft and Pirates — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:39:43 +0000

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Comment on tends towards zero carbon by Ben

Ben — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:49:54 +0000

Blogging while at work?
Of course I’m not reading your blog while at work…

Comment on scalpel blades by Tanagram

Tanagram — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:27:08 +0000

40! Are you nuts!

The 40 is way to dramatic. It’s too small. All that mess and effort. It just wastes time. Then someone might find you and clean you up. Fail.

14 is the way to go i’d say. Depending on where you’re cutting i suppose. Even a 15.

Comment on Go Kawakita’s thesis – genetic algorithms in ecotect by Go Kawakita Genetic Algorithm « Ecotect-LUA resources

Go Kawakita Genetic Algorithm « Ecotect-LUA resources — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:29:01 +0000

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Comment on centroid of points on the surface of a sphere by Gazi

Gazi — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:48:28 +0000

re: Ben

Problem with solution 1: If you were doing the same incremental approach on the plane, you would do a weighted sum at each step rather than always average (the point that was the result of averaging two points would have twice as weight as a normal point). If you simply average, it will be too close to the last point that you considered.
However, on the sphere it gets very interesting. If they are close enough to approximate a plane, incremental weighted average works. However, if three points were on the equator, what you propose works (always average) in a weird way.

Problem with solution 2: You have to find it on the surface. Looking up Slerp vs Lerp might help.

Problem with averaging lat – long: no different than the flattened map, lat and long are the 2D coordinates on the flattened map. If you also make top continue at bottom and left continue at right, it becomes a torus. Not a sphere.

I wish there was an easy solution to this. Here’s what you have been looking for:

http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~sbuss/ResearchWeb/spheremean/index.html

Hope this helps.

Comment on le tour de buzz by ben

ben — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:35:28 +0000

So, after a bit too much enthusiasm the night before, we didn’t manage finish the tour, but we did get to the first three.
Prufrock was pretty tricky to find as it is actually nestled into a super-wanky clothes shop (jealousy caused by not being able to afford things probably) without a sign. The coffee was really dense and full of flavour. I’ll leave Seb to make comparisons between the different cafes.
Taylor St Baristas was running some training, so it was good to drink a flat white and listen to people getting developed in a useful way. They have lammingtons, caramello koalas and anzac biscuits so the Australians will be happy.
Nude was a nice cafe, but not mind blowing, it might have been that our minds were already blown though.

We need to organise another attempt at the north face of caffeination soon, especially as we lived through this one!

Comment on tour of disloyalty by notion parallax – le tour de buzz

notion parallax – le tour de buzz — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:05:00 +0000

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