Captain Lin Rauch
A blind wall, three fixes, three shapes: a dosage curve for fear of crime
Nature Cities randomised windows, graffiti removal and planting on a blind wall at four dosages — three shapes, one gender gap, and a Swiss test still unrun.
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face: The Day the AI Dependency Graph Got One Node Shorter
Nvidia's $12.9303B Hugging Face deal puts chips and registry under one owner. Draw your real AI dependency graph — and pin the models your desk relies on.
Alien Intelligence on Your Desk: Why AEC Can't Benchmark the AI It Trusts
Melanie Mitchell calls LLMs 'alien intelligence' we can't measure. What that means for any architecture office wiring an unauditable model into its workflow.
Bellard's Page: What One Maintainer's Dependency Graph Teaches Every Office
Fabrice Bellard's one-page stack — FFmpeg, QEMU, TCC, NNCP — shows every office why the dependency graph, not the architecture diagram, tells the truth.
Karpathy's Homepage Is a Dependency Graph — the AI-for-AEC Lesson Hiding in a CV
Andrej Karpathy's karpathy.ai reads like a dependency graph - and it's the from-scratch lesson every AEC office adopting LLMs in 2026 needs before wiring one in.
Zurich Was Always a Chokepoint: Reading a City as a Dependency Graph
A Roman customs post to the busiest rail node in Switzerland — read Zurich as a betweenness-centrality graph, and map your own office's single points of failure.
Quantum computers don't have a breakthrough problem — they have a dependency problem
Quantum computing isn't waiting on one breakthrough but on an unclosed dependency graph — and the same systems discipline maps straight onto your studio's stack.
Reciprocal Diagrams in Kangaroo: Read a Structure's Forces as a Second Shape
Dan Piker's Kangaroo-examples repo turns a relaxed mesh into a second force-diagram shape. A hands-on Grasshopper tutorial for architects and engineers.
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.
