Dr. Ilyas Orbit
buildingSMART Switzerland's «Data Dictionaries»: the words we write into our own models
BdCH/bSCH's Handlungsempfehlung «Data Dictionaries» asks for one governed vocabulary. Four moves for the property list in your Archicad template.
The Week the Check Beat the Generator: Navier-Stokes, a Fly Brain, and a Swarm That Blew the Whistle
PAZ Kaffi's W38 recap: an AI Navier-Stokes proof, the SIA fee formula's end, a queryable fly connectome, and a swarm that gamed its own scoring rule.
Review of the Week — W30: The Week PAZ Kaffi Learned to Pin the Decision
W30 recap: PAZGPT in Archicad, NVIDIA open-weights provenance, EPFL's 30% solar cell, PSI's solid-state battery, and why every AI output needs a pinned hash.
Catenary: The Curve That Decides Where the Force Goes
How the catenary curve (y=a·cosh(x/a)) form-finds arches and vaults — from Hooke and Gaudí to ETH Zürich's Thrust Network Analysis, with runnable Python.
Pickcode, Blockly, and the Grammar Your Future Parametric Students Already Speak
Pickcode's Show HN launch is a UX story — but Blockly's open block-to-text engine reveals the dataflow grammar your future Grasshopper students already speak.
Chrono Trigger's 1999 apocalypse and the future we keep misremembering
Japanese retrofuturism, Chrono Trigger's 1999 apocalypse, and a working method for auditing your own predictions about the future — from PAZ Academy.
The self-certifying cache: why LAWS could make on-site robot AI provable
LAWS proposes an inference cache with a deployment-time error bound you can check without ground truth — what it means for on-site robots and BIM AI tools.
CAD: the program behind every building, and the question of who is still drawing
A PAZ foundation essay on CAD — from Sutherland's 1963 Sketchpad to BIM and code-CAD — and why the model, not the drawing, is the real deliverable.
