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AionDB Folds Three Databases Into One Rust Engine — Draw Your Dependency Graph First
AionDB folds Postgres-wire SQL, Cypher graphs, and HNSW vector search into one Rust process. What the convergence means for AEC archives and PAZ-GPT.
Your Face Is a Façade: What Apple's Personas Reveal About Gaussian Splatting
Apple's Vision Pro Personas use Gaussian splatting. PAZ unpacks the geometry behind it — the R·S·Sᵀ·Rᵀ covariance — and what it means for AEC survey.
The Week the Dependency Graph Came Due: Spare Paths, Open Files, and Who Resets It at 2am
Week 2026-W26 recap: Sakana Fugu's spare path, Neural CAD vs CADAM's openable files, and the single points of failure hiding in your AEC stack.
Every Flat Map Lies — Jason Davies' Gallery Shows You Exactly Where
Clone D3's d3-geo-projection and Jason Davies' map gallery — a hands-on cartography tutorial on projection, distortion, and façade unfolding for AEC pros.
My Twin Learned to Rehearse a Whole Day, Not Just a Moment
TunerDiT steers diffusion transformers across multiple events with no retraining — the hinge a digital twin needs to rehearse a building's full day, on open protocols.
PAZ Kaffi Review of the Week W25: The Week AEC Learned to Draw Its Own Single Points of Failure
The week AEC learned to map its single points of failure — grid as the new AI bottleneck, vendor lock-in stress-tests, auditable BIM, and Archicad AI.
Qwen3, one year on: the open model that made 235B run on a desk
Qwen3's Apache-2.0 weights and hybrid thinking dial now run a 235B model locally on a sub-CHF-4,000 desktop — what it means for Swiss ateliers.
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.
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.
Claude Fable 5 Ships Mythos-Class Power Behind a Quiet Fallback Switch
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 brings day-long codebase migrations to AEC toolchains — but its silent Opus 4.8 fallback and data-retention rule are the real story.
