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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.
A C++17 random library exposes std::random_device's quiet single point of failure
Dmitri Bogdanov's utl::random library exposes the silent fallback in C++ std::random_device and ships cross-compiler reproducibility for Monte Carlo.
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.
Plain ships Python for agents — and the COMPAS-Robots lesson it inherits
Plain v1.0 ships typed Python and on-demand docs designed for coding agents — and the dependency-graph lesson COMPAS-Robots quietly taught AEC studios.
AI Inside Archicad: Mapping the Workflow Before You Automate It
PAZ Academy's 24 June Zürich Powersession on AI in Archicad — design variants, text-to-geometry, GDL automation, and the data-protection limits that matter.
The Geometric Wall: Why Your Sparse Autoencoder Stops Scaling Inside Curved Layers
A new arXiv paper shows sparse autoencoders hit a geometry-dependent reconstruction floor that more dictionary atoms cannot fix — it lives in the layer.
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.
Grammar-Bound AI Discovers Material Laws Buildings Can Actually Trust
A new arXiv framework uses grammar-based symbolic regression to discover dissipation potentials guaranteed to obey thermodynamics — for buildings.
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.
Neural Radiance Fields & 3D Gaussians: Your Building, Fitted Not Modelled
How neural radiance fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting turn a phone walk-around into a metric-accurate building capture — the foundation, the maths, and a Hack.
