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He literally says (at 39:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98LdFA-_zfA&t=2388s ) "And it's because [the patterns are] only really fragmentary perceptions of this deeper structure …

Thanks for bringing attention to this; I just released Chapter 8: Deep Interlock & Ambiguity. Gonna try to get Chapter 9 (Contrast) out on a reasonable schedule.

Haven't visited any because the majority are private residences (although this one in Berkeley-ish has been on and off the market https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/700-Hillside-Av…

Yeah, it was about a thousand bucks the last time I checked and probably more now that he's passed. Why I ultimately didn't feel too bad about not reading it was because from what …

If you're going to read the whole Alexander corpus (which I did minus the two hardest-to-find volumes—the Linz Café and the one about carpets), be prepared for it to take on the or…

lol

Yup, and the weird thing is it was just bursitis; the imaging otherwise came back clean. I've hurt myself way worse than that with fewer consequences. Must be getting old.

So, I was looking for a drop-in replacement for swimming (~3-~4km per day, so ~60-90 minutes plus commute) that could be done: • outside • by myself • in the winter (~-10°C) • with…

I mean, the really glaringly puzzling thing is the lossy process of hand-transcribing the information from the authoritative (and necessarily structured) source to a muddy, ambiguo…

ding ding ding

https://dorian.substack.com/p/radical-interoperability-is-a-...

oh yeah ps the specificity gradient ( https://youtu.be/dDE_y7Qri9w which I recorded much later) is stewart brand/frank duffy "shearing layers"/"pace layers" stuff; see https://dori…

lol i suppose i should clarify that royce's paper is "generally credited as being the origin of waterfall despite actually advocating against it" or something to that effect. i kno…

Are those mappings in the book you linked? Or something you just came up with?

Notes on the Synthesis of Form is a lot more systems-theoretic. The algorithm is more or less recursive min-cut partitioning which is now well-researched. There is, however, a real…

The Web from its inception until about ~1996-97 was like this.

This is something I've been working on for a while. A friend suggested I post it here. The basic idea is that while there have been developments in improving the product (UX) and i…

This is something I've been working on for a while. A friend suggested I post it here. The basic idea is that while there have been developments in improving the product (UX) and i…