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ARCHICAD 23 Essential Training
English | Size: 3.6GB
Category: Tutorial

Explore the powerful tools and techniques of ARCHICAD, used by many architects as part of their building information modeling (BIM) workflow. In this ARCHICAD 23 course, licensed architect Willard Williams shows you how to set up your ARCHICAD environment and demonstrates both basic and advanced tools. He covers the actual stages of architecture, making it easy to relate how features can be leveraged for daily, real-world activities. Willard dives into modeling and documentation, including working with specific tools and various techniques necessary to bring a project from sketch to production drawing and the nuances in between. [Read more…]

Ed Finn – What Algorithms Want – (23 mp3s)
English | Size: 246.66 MB
Category: Audio

We depend on – we believe in – algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It’s as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations – the marriage vow, the shaman’s curse – do not merely describe the world but make it. Computation casts a cultural shadow that is shaped by this long tradition of magical thinking. In What Algorithms Want, Ed Finn considers how the algorithm – in practical terms, “a method for solving a problem” – has its roots not only in mathematical logic but also in cybernetics, philosophy, and magical thinking. [Read more…]