ACADEMY
Grasshopper before Python: the cognitive-load case, taught with PyMuPDF
Why PAZ teaches Grasshopper before Python — cognitive-load theory, then a runnable PyMuPDF script that reads your next tender's text layer in four lines.
Window schedules that survive the next revision — our July 15 Archicad session
Our 15 July 2026 PAZ-Next Power Session teaches Archicad windows that hold their fit, labels and counts through every revision — plus a five-line IFC check.
One Agent, Six Surfaces: Cloning Nous Research's Hermes Agent for the Studio
A hands-on PAZ tutorial on Hermes Agent v0.18.0 and hermes-webui: clone the MIT runtime, sandbox it on Docker, and map its dependency graph before you trust it.
Fearless on the GPU: data-race-free CUDA kernels in Rust with cuTile
NVIDIA's cuTile Rust brings memory-safe, data-race-free CUDA kernels to Rust — 2.07 PFlop/s on a B200 with no runtime tax. A hands-on PAZ Academy tutorial.
Build a Vintage LLM for the Price of Lunch: A 1900-Locked Model, From Scratch
How croqaz trained a 340M-param, 1900-cutoff LLM for ~$80 — a clone-and-run template for an atelier's own domain-locked house model. Data curation is the job.
PAZ-BOX: read the payback, not the sticker — what a floating Archicad licence actually costs
PAZ-BOX opens at CHF 574/year for eight Archicad Add-Ons on one floating licence. The unit economics — and a SQL query to price any tool by its real payback.
When the AI Platform Goes Dark: Run It Locally So Your Work Survives
A free AI platform vanished overnight and 80 games nearly went with it. Learn to run models locally with transformers.js so your work outlives the vendor.
Two days at PAZ Central: the KI Sommer Camp returns, tighter and hands-on
PAZ Academy's KI Sommer Camp returns 2–3 July 2026 at PAZ Central, Zürich: a two-day, hands-on AI workflow camp for architects and AEC teams.
Adam's CADAM Turns a Sentence Into Editable OpenSCAD — In Your Browser
Adam's CADAM (YC W25) turns plain English into parametric, browser-based OpenSCAD you can export, edit, and Git. A hands-on PAZ tutorial for AEC makers.
I Keep My Keys in My Walls: A Three-Class Scanner That Stops Crying Wolf
A new CNN-CodeBERT framework separates real credentials from placeholders, cutting false alarms 33% — and why your AEC studio's repos need it now.
