Sunday, July 20, 2025

Exercise (health)

Thriving Beyond Fifty (Expanded Edition): 111 Natural Strategies to Restore Your Mobility, Avoid Surgery and Stay Off Pain Pills for Good

Book by Will Harlow 

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Historical Fiction

Blackcock's Feather (from H.)

- Maurice Walsh

 

Wolf Hall (from Dina) [have paperback]

- Hillary Mantel


Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Italian Short Stories

 

read: The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories

- Jhumpa Lahiri


to read: Neapolitan Chronicles (Il mare non bagno Napoli)

read: A Pair of Eyeglasses

- Anna Maria Ortese


Alberto Moravia

- read already: the other side of the moon (fast woman)


Elsa Morante

- read already: The Ambitious Ones


Georgio Manganelli

- Centuria (good, short)


Primo Levi

- Quaestio de Centauris


Tommaso Gandofli

- Gogol’s Wife


Carlo Emilio Gadda

- The Mother (v good writing, phrases)


Ennio Flaiano

- Diario degli errori (book)

- A Martian in Rome


antonio delfini

- The Milliner (from Racconti)

Grazia Deledda

- La cerbiatta (the hind)



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Monday, March 24, 2025

Applied ML - genai in domains

Architecture (buildings)

Image generation

mid journey (best)
stable diffusion 
dall-e

controlnet
 - ControlNet is a neural network structure to control diffusion models by adding extra conditions.

Code Generation (Programming)

3D modelling (structure)

rhino 3d modelling tool

grasshopper model scripting 

- part of rhino 3d
- scripting tool, DSL for Rhino3D
- scripts help enable genai



what is lacking:

- AI models with physics 
- AI models with structural understanding
- AI architecture model that also uses or is integrated with AI material modelling
- an integrated genai workflow
- AI currently seems to fill in at a high-level (e.g. from a drawing with colored 'areas', but has poor quality on details. Also issues with counting (number of floors, windows...).

project - Deep Himmelb(l)au



Art and Design



Web Site Generation


Thursday, March 20, 2025

Japanese phrases

Kaizen is a compound of two Japanese words that together translate as "good change" or "improvement." However, Kaizen has come to mean "continuous improvement" through its association with lean methodology and principles. Kaizen has its origins in post-World War II Japanese quality circles.

Nana korobi, ya oki" is a Japanese proverb that translates to "fall seven times, get up eight


Ichi-go ichi-e (Japanese: 一期一会, pronounced [it͡ɕi. ɡo it͡ɕi. e], lit. "one time, one meeting") is a Japanese four-character idiom (yojijukugo) that describes a cultural concept of treasuring the unrepeatable nature of a moment.


Friday, January 17, 2025

AI and Agents - Conferences and Organisations

Multi-Agent Organizations and Conferences

IFAAMAS = International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)

AAMAS 2025 Detroit = International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems