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by saeranv 10y ago
Yeap. There's some research that suggests the unconscious mind is better at making complex decisions then the conscious mind. [1][2] "Thinking hard about a complex decision that rests on multiple factors appears to bamboozle the c
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I'm really glad github is being adopted in architecture/engineering. That being said, I've contributed to a handful of popular, open-source tools in architecture, and the big problem for us is that architecture depends on lar
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I remember checking this project out around 2014 and it seemed it was all being done in Sketchup using ruby. Now it looks like it's mainly being done in Grasshopper/Rhino (visual scripting) with some components being done using cu
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Yes, and traditionally, the biggest contributor to thermal inefficiency is the window to wall ratio (WWR) b/c windows have a very high conductance relative to walls. So if you can reduce the window area, or mitigate it's thermal i
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Do you mean putting the square rooms in the interior, and creating closets/stairs etc along the awkwardly shaped perimeter? The problem with that is that the space by the perimeter is the most valuable (access to fresh air, light, view
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Awkward to utilize is right, try and insert furniture, kitchen/washroom utilities in a round room. The other problem is that the low surface:volume ratio means daylight penetration is pretty difficult. That's why hyper-optimized b
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by saeranv 10y ago
A lot of people are commenting (correctly) that any cost savings achieved here are trivial relative to the land cost. I think this is looking at this tech too narrowly though. There are many areas of architecture that can be revolutionized
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This gets a lot lower with differing latitudes and seasonal and daily cloud cover/evening time - closer to 100 W/m2 [1]. So over a day you'd get 2.4 kWh. In comparison an electric space heater uses about 1 kWh of energy in an
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Thanks for sharing. Can you elaborate on #1. I never really understood the level of hatred Hillary received. To me she seemed like any other politician.
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“It's a lot like political discussion was in Soviet Union, actually. I think the inability to acknowledge obvious truths, and the ever-increasing scope of these restrictions makes it particularly frustrating. And personally, for what
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This is a slightly different response from others, but I think fits the intent of the question: The Better Explained Guide to Calculus: https://betterexplained.com/calculus/ Kalid basically iterates the series around t
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It's a huge, diverse field so I wouldn't be able to do it justice in a comment. I suggest looking at some papers from http://acadia.org/ , and http://www.ibpsa.org/ . The latter being an example of
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I can't give you any advice on the Masters CS degree (other then that I think some sort of CS background would be really useful), but career-wise - have you considered sticking to architecture and follow a more tech path? There are som
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Is it only a research paper if it is published in a journal? What about conference papers? Here's an example I was reading recently which doesn't go into much detail: http://www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/asim2012
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Question: What are the selection criteria people use to determine which papers to read. I went through a period where I tried to get in the habit of reading research papers regularly. Two issues I found that lead me to eventually dropping t
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I agree in spirit with you, but we should strive not to be reductive about the role of planning in cities. Slums are also unplanned.
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Octopuses and the Puzzle of Aging(nytimes.com)
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I also did something like this many years ago, after finishing my bachelors and I was struggling to figure out what my next steps were. I took it one step further and tried to see if there was some sort of emergent theme that I could overla
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This is about 5.8 kWh. For comparison your average adult male uses >2kWh every day on a 2000 calorie diet.
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I'm an architect, and personally I've yet too meet an architect who thinks that way. The opposite is true, most architects think the clients and various stakeholders are overly invested in aesthetic considerations and aren't
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A Better Kind of Happiness(newyorker.com)
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When I was taking linear algebra and calculus in university, I found that there was a lot of focus on deriving formulas from underlying principles, with the notion that this constituted a "fundamental" understanding of the mathema
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Study: Exercise Four Hours After Learning Improves Long-Term Memory(sci-news.com)
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Think Less, Think Better(nytimes.com)
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What are people's thoughts on the Udacity Machine Learning Nanodegree versus Coursera's Machine Learning? ETA: Am flexible, but I'm particularly interested in strengthening my Linear Algebra, and prefer to use Python.
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Good point, this is probably a contributing factor that I've overlooked.
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Occasionally after lunch, I'll get hit with this intense wave of sleepiness, which no amount of caffeine seems to be able to fix. The best I can do is stare at my screen blankly through half-closed eyes while my brain is more or less s
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Betterexplained.com is fantastic, even after years of thinking I understand a concept, Khalid always manages to push my insight further. In that link he mainly goes into matrices (if I recall) and to get into dot product and cross product e
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The Year of the Political Troll(newyorker.com)
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by saeranv 10y ago
You have misunderstood the parent post.

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