Archive · August 2026
Night City Is a Dependency Graph: Edgerunners as a Single-Point-of-Failure Study
Read Cyberpunk: Edgerunners as a dependency graph — Arasaka, Trauma Team's SLA gate, and one networkx move to find the cut vertex in your own office stack.
Review of the Week — W34: The week PAZ Kaffi drew the dependency graph
Gotthard's shared door, Meta's locked worlds, zero trust and StructureGS — the week PAZ Kaffi read every headline as a topology. Find your single point of failure.
The Great Green Wall Fights an Orbit, Not Just a Desert
The Sahara moves on a 21,000-year sun cycle. Why the Great Green Wall plants against the sky — and the two-line solar check every façade study owes itself.
Watch a solver get overruled: Pablo Levine Mardones' BSS graduation stream
Pablo Levine Mardones defends the 39th PAZ Building System Specialist project live on 25 Aug 2026 — watch where an architect overrules Galapagos, and why.
The CNN, Read Like a Beam Grid: One Filter, Checked by Hand
A foundation guide to the convolutional neural network for architects: the checkable arithmetic, the Hubel-to-ResNet lineage, and how to audit a filter's output.
Cyberpunk Got the Topology Right — Now Draw Your Own Dependency Graph
Cyberpunk's real prediction wasn't neon — it was topology. Read Gibson as a dependency graph and find your stack's single point of failure before it finds you.
StructureGS: when a Gaussian splat learns where the hinge is
StructureGS adds oriented bounding boxes to 3D Gaussian Splatting so scanned parts stay separable — why AEC teams should demand articulated deliverables.
Grasshopper from Zero: Your First 90-Minute Jump into Grasshopper 2
Grasshopper 2 beta adds inbuilt loops and a play/stop timer. A 90-minute first jump: slider, Series, point grid, one line of GhPython. Start tonight in Rhino 8.
Rivers Run the Cheapest Network There Is — And So Should Your Riser Diagram
Hack's law says a river's length scales with drainage area^0.6 — the same optimal-transport logic that should govern your riser, duct and load-path trees.
The Plug Was Designed. The Swap Was Never Funded.
Kurokawa's Nakagin Tower designed a 25-year capsule swap that never happened. Why designed-for-disassembly is a data problem before it is a detail problem.
