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Samyn grew up in the Belgian countryside, where his father was a mechanical engineer and his mother was a painter. With a love for both art and math, he studied structural engineering, graduating from the Free University of Brussels in 1971. He visited MIT on a backpacking trip and was immediately drawn to its focus on thinking beyond concrete. Arriving for a master’s in civil engineering, he embraced a philosophy of creative problem-solving. “The teachers would say the word ‘problem’ doesn’t exist—there are just…

Apurva Bose Dutta trained as an architect but chose not to practise architecture in the conventional sense. Instead of designing buildings, she practises through architectural design writing, journalism, criticism, communications, discourse, and curation – her preferred career path since she graduated from the Chandigarh College of Architecture in 2005 and followed that up with a diploma in freelance journalism. PREMIUM The Museum of Architecture in Chandigarh by Shiv Datt Sharma 154pp, ₹1990; Altrim…

Landscape of Saudi Arabia where the engravings have been found. Credit: Olivier Barge, CNRS. CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) The oldest scale plans of human made megastructures are reported in the open access journal PLOS ONE on May 17, 2023. The engravings, dated to between 7,000 and 8,000 years old, depict nearby desert kites, vast structures used to trap animals. The ability to transpose large space…

A Practical Guide to Building Monolithic and Microservice Chatbot Applications with Streamlit, Huggingface, and FastAPIImage generated by Author using Midjourney V5.1 using the prompt: “isometric highly realistic view of a laptop, screen has the picture of a bright, multi colored rubik’s cube that is illuminated from within, bright, warm, cheerful lighting. 8k, hdr, unreal engine”With the advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, chatbots are exploding in popularity! Every business seeks ways to incorporate ChatGPT into its…

Three Colorado employers have notified the state that they plan to eliminate 334 jobs in Denver and Pueblo, according to Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification letters filed with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment this week. The largest of the three layoffs comes from Pinnacle Architectural Lighting Inc., which is closing its lighting products manufacturing plant and distribution facility at 3801 Havana St. in Denver and eliminating 151 jobs. The cuts are expected to start in June and stretch through…

Wordle 575 answer for January 15: Unless you’re an architect, solving today’s puzzle is going to be a tough job for you. But don’t worry, solve it with ease using these Wordle hints, clues and solution. Wordle 575 answer for January 15: Finally, after more than two weeks, Wordle has turned up the difficulty. Today's puzzle has the potential to give the players a good challenge. And interestingly, the difficulty does not come from a technicality within the word but the word in itself. And if that has you confused, then…

Sequential and Parallel Architectures All in OnePhoto by MARIOLA GROBELSKA on UnsplashXGBoost (eXtreme Gradient Boost) is a powerful learning algorithm which had outperformed many conventional Machine Learning algos in many competitions in the past.In a nutshell, XGBoost is equipped with both sequential and parallel architectures all in one: while it is a sequential learning algorithm (additive strategy), it incorporates parallel computation into its architecture in order to enhance the system efficiency.produced by…

Ukraine plans to use NFTs for every single piece of art or history amid Russia’s invasion. Amidst the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine and its subsequent destruction, the Russian military is destroying Ukraine’s architectural marvels, museums, and other cultural sites. So Ukraine plans to digitize and use NFTs for every single piece of art or history announced by the President of the Blockchain Association of Ukraine, Michael Chobanian. This can immortalize & save its architectural marvels,…

Image by author using vqgan + clip (“underwater roboic world | trending on artstation”, 1000 iter.)In the past few years, machine learning data management practices have evolved dramatically, with the introduction of new design patterns and tools such as feature stores, data and model monitoring practices, and feature generation frameworks.Most advances in data management for machine learning are focused on classical (feature-based) data, and cannot be applied as-is to unstructured data, leaving deep learning data…