Archive · June 2026
Gerrymandle Teaches the One Skill Every Floor Plan Secretly Needs: Connected Regions
Play Gerrymandle, then rebuild it in NetworkX. A hands-on tutorial on contiguous-region partitioning — the skill behind districting and floor-plan zoning.
Cotangent buildings: a math paper hands your smart building its missing dependency graph
A new arXiv paper calls them 'cotangent buildings' — symplectic math with a gift for architects. Draw your BMS dependency graph this week.
Plain ships Python for agents — and the COMPAS-Robots lesson it inherits
Plain v1.0 ships typed Python and on-demand docs designed for coding agents — and the dependency-graph lesson COMPAS-Robots quietly taught AEC studios.
Power, Not Chips: A $27M Seed Bets the Real Bottleneck Is the Grid
A $27M seed bets compute's binding constraint is megawatts, not GPUs. What behind-the-meter data-center power means for AEC site planning in 2026.
AI Inside Archicad: Mapping the Workflow Before You Automate It
PAZ Academy's 24 June Zürich Powersession on AI in Archicad — design variants, text-to-geometry, GDL automation, and the data-protection limits that matter.
The Flow Field: Where Noise Pretends to Be a Force
A flow field is a vector field; a streamline its integral curve. Perlin noise looks like load paths but minimises nothing — a 10-line p5.js Hack shows why.
Attention: the one operator that quietly rewired AI — and what it means at your desk
The one operator under every 2026 AI tool — Query, Key, Value, softmax — explained for architects and engineers, with a runnable floor-plan attention Hack.
The Geometric Wall: Why Your Sparse Autoencoder Stops Scaling Inside Curved Layers
A new arXiv paper shows sparse autoencoders hit a geometry-dependent reconstruction floor that more dictionary atoms cannot fix — it lives in the layer.
Give Your Build Pipeline a Nervous System: CI/CD Tracing with OpenTelemetry
Step-by-step: instrument GitHub Actions with the OpenTelemetry Collector's GitHub Receiver, trace every job and step, and query the slow ones in SigNoz.
From Fold to Function: Origami Robotics Gets One Map
A 2026 arXiv preprint unifies rigid folding, elastic bending and snap-through in one discrete-geometry model for origami robots — and why AEC should care.