Again the gravity of the rituals, and their rigidity, make it impos­sible that the form of the hogan should be lightly changed

hogans of the Navaho

lack houses of the Outer Hebrides

trulli of Apulia

capanne of Anzio

If the light always flashes just once, and then goes off again and stays off, we deduce that the lights are able to adapt independently, and hence that there are no interconnections between lights. If the light activates a few other lights, and they flash together 44

Whether a form-making process is selfconscious or unself­conscious, these misfit variables are always present, lingering in the background of the process, as thoughts in a designer's mind, or as actions, criticisms, failures, doubts

adaptation

But this explanation is vague hand-waving.25 It doesn't tell us what it is that prevents such adaptation from taking place successfully in the selfconscious culture, which is what we want to know most urgently

The teacher cannot refer ex­plicitly to each single mistake which can be made, for even if there were time to do so, such a list could not be learned.

specialization of any sort is rare, there are no archi­tects, and each man builds his own house.

there are no general principles comparable to Alberti's treatises or Le Corbusier's.

we may distinguish between our own culture, which is very selfconscious about its architecture, art, and engineer­ing, and certain specimen cultures which are rather unself­conscious about theirs

The form has a dual co­herence. It is coherently related to its context. And it is physically coherent.

Mousgoum hut,

Instead of orienting the house carefully for sun and wind, the builder conceives its organization without concern for orientation, and light, heat, and ventilation are taken care of by fans, lamps, and other kinds of peripheral devices.

dymaxion house

Mies Vander Rohe's Farnsworth house

It is only through the form that we can create order in the ensemble.

We may summarize the state of each potential misfit by means of a binary variable.

such a list of require­ments is potentially endless

impossible

The context is that part of the world which puts demands on this form; anything in the world that makes demands of the form is context

D' Arcy Thompson

Francesco Algarotti

Carlo Lodoli

Vignola

Jacques Fran�ois Blondel

It is a way of reducing the gap between the designer's small ca­pacity and the great size of his task.

Two minutes with a pencil on the back of an envelope lets us solve problems which we could not do in our heads if we tried for a hundred years. But at present we have no corresponding way of simplifying design problems for ourselves.

There are limits to the difficulty of a laboratory problem which he can solve; 5 to the number of issues he can consider simultaneously; 6 to the complexity of a decision he can handle wisely.7

But the burden of a thousand years falls heavily on one man's shoulders, and this burden has not yet materially been lightened.

the complexity of the problem will defeat us unless we find a simple way of writing it down, which lets us break it into smaller problems.

functional diversity of materials makes for expensive and complicated joints between components,

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If you understand the need to create independent diagrams, which re-

Because the diagrams are .independent of one another, you can study them and improve them one at a time, so that their evolution can be gradual and cumulative. More important still, because they are abstract and independent, you can use them to create not just one design, but an infinite variety of designs, all of them free combinations of the same set of patterns.

I gave a talk back in Oct 2019 about #opensource licensing evolution.A good time to reflect about what you want from your software and your licenses.

Alan Kay

Douglas Engelbart, who published a vision of tools empowering humans in his pioneering 1962 paper Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework.

As the Victoria and Albert Museum present in A History of Computer Art,

I got [[roller skates]] the other day. I'm stoked, they're white and have light up wheels

I'm sad that [[obsidian]] mobile has decided to go for a for-pay model for their beta android client. Oh well. I might end up buying a subscription, we'll see

Been playing with [[kde]] also known as [[plasma desktop]] nowadays. I've been using [[linux]] for over 20 years and never really gave it a proper chance, but with the right tweaks, I have faith it will work well

Finally making a new note!

that best

First time journaling in awhile. I took a break to gather my thoughts. I think I'll start writing here again for [[mental health]] purposes. I feel like there is a certain degree of [[self care]] in this

NOTES ON THE SYNTHESIS OF FORM

Really, Emacs (and EXWM) are partial solutions to a more systemic issue -- the way in which the Unix philosophy has lost its way on the modern Linux system.

What are things that I want/wish/dream for? What am I (dis)satisfied with in life, on a personal, interpersonal, and societal level? What are the possibilities that I can imagine, for the near future or the present, of how “reality” could be different? What factors condition and inform my relationship to these questions? What are processes by which I can shape my interaction with these questions? In particular, what kinds of processes are there beyond a self-reflective, discursive approach -- e.g. through actionable experiments and interpersonal interactions?

how do we store data? if we push data to the agora more than once for same user for same wikilink does it override the note?

The Timeless Way of Building is the first in a series of books which describe an entirely new attitude to architec- ture and planning. The books are intended to provide a complete working alternative to our present ideas about ar- chitecture, building, and planning—~an alternative which will, we hope, gradually replace current ideas and practices,

No Yoga Robots

No Yoga Robots

in spite of logging thousands of hours, having a strong reading habit and being almost driven to books, I realised that I’m still really bad at the process of learning from books. What I excel at is the very efficient consumption of text content. And tragically, that is what we are all trained to optimise for. 

Under John, the empire's population recovered to about 10 million people.[2] The quarter-century of John II's reign is less well recorded by contemporary or near-contemporary writers than the reigns of either his father, Alexios I, or his son, Manuel I. In particular little is known of the history of John's domestic rule or policies.[a]

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Patterns By Oliver Sacks

Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker

Evaluate how I want to deal with the 'TODOs' in my wiki

Set up matrix, hosting both the web app and the server, on my VPS configuration

Morges.

The recipes inside are less like GPS directions and more like a hand-drawn map that only gives the scenic route from A to B.

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John II Komnenos or Comnenus (Greek: Ίωάννης Βʹ Κομνηνός, Iōannēs II Komnēnos; 13 September 1087 – 8 April 1143) was Byzantine emperor from 1118 to 1143. Also known as "John the Beautiful" or "John the Good" (Kaloïōannēs), he was the eldest son of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina and the second emperor to rule during the Komnenian restoration of the Byzantine Empire. John was a pious and dedicated monarch who was determined to undo the damage his empire had suffered following the battle of Manzikert, half a century earlier.

I became fascinated by Michel Foucault’s notion of working on the self as a work of art.

Designing and hosting as many world variations as the number users of an interactive platform would be beyond impractical.

Recurrent neural networks, long short-term memory [12] and gated recurrent [7] neural networksin particular,

https://vvvvalvalval.github.io/posts/what-makes-a-good-repl.html

Datomic

If your dinky little JS bundle is scraped by Google or the Internet Archive, it’s going to be remembered forever.

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