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Your Office Wiki Is a Folder of Markdown Files — OpenKnowledge Just Made It Editable
OpenKnowledge turns a folder of markdown into an AI-readable office wiki over MCP — and keeps your practice's knowledge in files that outlive the vendor.
Spain Won With a Pipeline, Not a Transfer Window — Your BIM Stack Is Too
Spain beat Argentina 1-0 with a nine-year pipeline, not transfers. The same logic decides whether your Archicad-Speckle-IFC stack survives its vendors.
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.
Let the Data Count Its Own Clusters: One Bayesian Trick, Two Worlds
Two 2026 arXiv papers use the Dirichlet process to let data pick cluster count — in movie ratings and cancer subtypes. What it means for BIM and design data.
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.
The wave equation, sliced four ways: a faster solver for seismic and acoustic FE
A new space-time sparse-grid method makes the wave equation embarrassingly parallel — what it means for seismic, acoustic and vibration FE on an architect's desk.
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.
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.
The Fat Kitten That Wasn't: What a Fake Mistral Model Tells Your Office About Vendor Lock-In
Mistral's viral fake "Le Chaton Fat" model exposes a real AEC risk: AI you can't run yourself. Why open weights matter for BIM workflows — and one fix today.
Gerrymandle Teaches the One Skill Every Floor Plan Secretly Needs: Connected Regions
Play Gerrymandle, then rebuild it in NetworkX. A hands-on tutorial on contiguous-region partitioning — the skill behind districting and floor-plan zoning.
