Space Is The Machine

Author : Bill Hillier
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1511697768

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Space Is the Machine by Bill Hillier Pdf

Since 'The Social Logic of Space' was published in 1984, Bill Hillier and his colleagues at University College London have been conducting research on how space features in the form and functioning of buildings and cities. A key outcome is the concept of 'spatial configuration' meaning relations which take account of other relations in a complex. New techniques have been developed and applied to a wide range of architectural and urban problems. The aim of this book is to assemble some of this work and show how it leads to a new type of theory of architecture, an analytic theory in which understanding and design advance together. The success of configurational ideas in bringing to light the spatial logic of buildings and cities suggests that it might be possible to extend these ideas to other areas of the human sciences where problems of configuration are critical.

Author : Elizabeth Bear
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781534403031

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Machine by Elizabeth Bear Pdf

A “spectacularly smart space opera” that follows Ancestral Night in the Hugo Award–winning author’s White Space duology (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Meet Doctor Jens. She hasn’t had a decent cup of coffee in fifteen years. Her workday begins when she jumps out of perfectly good space ships and continues with developing treatments for sick alien species she’s never seen before. She loves her life. Even without the coffee. But Dr. Jens is about to discover an astonishing mystery: two ships, one ancient and one new, locked in a deadly embrace. The crew is suffering from an unknown ailment and the shipmind is trapped in an inadequate body, much of her memory pared away. Unfortunately, Dr. Jens can’t resist a mystery and she begins doing some digging. She has no idea that she’s about to discover horrifying and life-changing truths. Written in Elizabeth Bear’s signature “rollicking, suspenseful, and sentimental” (Publishers Weekly) style, Machine is a fresh and electrifying space opera that you won’t be able to put down. “Intelligently plotted and executed with flair, Machine is a taut sci-fi mystery thriller that eschews popcorn movie theatrics for immersive environments and memorable characters.” —Scott Whitmore, author of Green Zulu 51 “Ideal for fans of C. J. Cherryh, Ann Leckie, and Iain M. Banks.” —Booklist “An intricately plotted fusion of science fiction adventure and conspiratorial mystery.” —Kirkus Reviews “This fascinating read is perfect for [fans of Star Trek’s] Dr. Crusher.” —StarTrek.com

Author : Enrico Camporeale,Simon Wing,Jay Johnson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128117897

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Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather by Enrico Camporeale,Simon Wing,Jay Johnson Pdf

Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather provides a thorough and accessible presentation of machine learning techniques that can be employed by space weather professionals. Additionally, it presents an overview of real-world applications in space science to the machine learning community, offering a bridge between the fields. As this volume demonstrates, real advances in space weather can be gained using nontraditional approaches that take into account nonlinear and complex dynamics, including information theory, nonlinear auto-regression models, neural networks and clustering algorithms. Offering practical techniques for translating the huge amount of information hidden in data into useful knowledge that allows for better prediction, this book is a unique and important resource for space physicists, space weather professionals and computer scientists in related fields. Collects many representative non-traditional approaches to space weather into a single volume Covers, in an accessible way, the mathematical background that is not often explained in detail for space scientists Includes free software in the form of simple MATLAB® scripts that allow for replication of results in the book, also familiarizing readers with algorithms

Author : Bill Hillier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 052156039X

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Space is the Machine by Bill Hillier Pdf

Radical new theory of the spatial logic of buildings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Starbright Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Neighborliness
ISBN : OCLC:489466327

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Wilbur's Space Machine by Anonim Pdf

Violet and Wilbur love the peace and quiet of their valley and find the need for more space when it is invaded by many neighbors, including the obstreperous Googie.

Author : Akkelies van Nes,Claudia Yamu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030591403

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Introduction to Space Syntax in Urban Studies by Akkelies van Nes,Claudia Yamu Pdf

This open access textbook is a comprehensive introduction to space syntax method and theory for graduate students and researchers. It provides a step-by-step approach for its application in urban planning and design. This textbook aims to increase the accessibility of the space syntax method for the first time to all graduate students and researchers who are dealing with the built environment, such as those in the field of architecture, urban design and planning, urban sociology, urban geography, archaeology, road engineering, and environmental psychology. Taking a didactical approach, the authors have structured each chapter to explain key concepts and show practical examples followed by underlying theory and provided exercises to facilitate learning in each chapter. The textbook gradually eases the reader into the fundamental concepts and leads them towards complex theories and applications. In summary, the general competencies gain after reading this book are: – to understand, explain, and discuss space syntax as a method and theory; – be capable of undertaking various space syntax analyses such as axial analysis, segment analysis, point depth analysis, or visibility analysis; – be able to apply space syntax for urban research and design practice; – be able to interpret and evaluate space syntax analysis results and embed these in a wider context; – be capable of producing new original work using space syntax. This holistic textbook functions as compulsory literature for spatial analysis courses where space syntax is part of the methods taught. Likewise, this space syntax book is useful for graduate students and researchers who want to do self-study. Furthermore, the book provides readers with the fundamental knowledge to understand and critically reflect on existing literature using space syntax.

Author : E.M. Forster
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2200000109293

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The Machine Stops. Illustrated by E.M. Forster Pdf

"The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster, now presented in a beautifully illustrated edition, is a visionary and thought-provoking novella that explores the perils of technological dependency and the potential consequences of a society overly reliant on machines. Set in a future where humanity lives underground, isolated in individual cells, their every need attended to by an all-encompassing Machine, the story follows Vashti, a lecturer and true believer in the Machine's omnipotence. However, as the Machine begins to show signs of malfunction, Vashti's worldview is challenged, leading to a series of events that question the very foundations of her society. "The Machine Stops" remains a compelling exploration of the dangers of sacrificing human connections for the convenience of technology. This illustrated edition provides a fresh perspective on Forster's timeless work, making it an engaging and visually captivating experience for both new and returning readers.

Author : Julienne Hanson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521543517

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Decoding Homes and Houses by Julienne Hanson Pdf

Exploration of the relationship between the design of housing and domestic routine.

Author : Marcella Del Signore,Gernot Riether
Publisher : List
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8898774281

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Urban Machines by Marcella Del Signore,Gernot Riether Pdf

Over the last few decades the increasingly collaborative work developed among architects, urban planners, artists and media designers has developed a particular landscape of projects that engage information technology as a catalytic tool for expanding, augmenting or altering the public and social interactions in the urban space. Through the projects and prototypes presented, the book aims to dissect the modes in which spatial practitioners operate in the digital city and how information technology and media are tools for place making. Interacting, Integrating, Expanding, Networking and Hacking are the five categories that explore modes of operating in the digital city. The line of inquiry set up through the research framework of the book begins from the reading of the contemporary urban conditions as the shared, the common, the smart, and the networker.

Author : Paul Davies
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780141930428

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How to Build a Time Machine by Paul Davies Pdf

Inspired at an impressionable age by the work of science fiction writers H.G.Wells and Arthur C Clarke, Paul Davies has thought long and hard about ways to travel in time. Here, the best-selling popular science writer finally reveals how it can be done - without breaking the laws of physics and without causing any earth-shattering paradoxes. Since time is money, time travel is a costly business. But with the help of a handy black hole, or better a wormhole, and a bit of luck, Davies's guide illustrates how this new mode of travel could yet be a viable option. "An entertaining tour around a fascinating topic, conducted by a world-class physicist" - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Author : Matthew Isaac Sobin
Publisher : Inkshares
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942645207

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The Last Machine in the Solar System by Matthew Isaac Sobin Pdf

Nearly three billion years into the future, the solar system is a very different place. Earth is long gone, and the sun is a gray, shrunken dwarf. All that remains of humanity and conscious thought is Jonathan—the last machine. Created to survive Earth’s destruction by our ever-expanding sun, Jonathan witnessed the end of life on Earth. This is his story and that of his creator, Nikolai. It is also the story of the human race, which failed to disentangle its destiny from the star that gave rise to all life-forms on Earth.

Author : Nikos Angelos Salingaros
Publisher : UMBAU-VERLAG Harald Püschel
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architectural criticism
ISBN : 9783937954011

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Anti-architecture and Deconstruction by Nikos Angelos Salingaros Pdf

Author : Matt Harrison
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781492047490

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Machine Learning Pocket Reference by Matt Harrison Pdf

With detailed notes, tables, and examples, this handy reference will help you navigate the basics of structured machine learning. Author Matt Harrison delivers a valuable guide that you can use for additional support during training and as a convenient resource when you dive into your next machine learning project. Ideal for programmers, data scientists, and AI engineers, this book includes an overview of the machine learning process and walks you through classification with structured data. You’ll also learn methods for clustering, predicting a continuous value (regression), and reducing dimensionality, among other topics. This pocket reference includes sections that cover: Classification, using the Titanic dataset Cleaning data and dealing with missing data Exploratory data analysis Common preprocessing steps using sample data Selecting features useful to the model Model selection Metrics and classification evaluation Regression examples using k-nearest neighbor, decision trees, boosting, and more Metrics for regression evaluation Clustering Dimensionality reduction Scikit-learn pipelines

Author : Torsten Blume,Christian Hiller (Curator),Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art and technology
ISBN : 3944669223

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Human - Space - Machine by Torsten Blume,Christian Hiller (Curator),Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau Pdf

Edition Bauhaus 38 In 1921, Walter Gropius founded a theater workshop at the Bauhaus. It conducted new research and experiments on the relationship between humans and technology. The central protagonists Lothar Schreyer, Oskar Schlemmer, and László Moholoy-Nagy investigated the issues of mechanization, machine industrialization, and rationalization. They sought a new, meaningful relationship with the dynamized, increasingly technically animated environment. In their stage laboratory, they developed abstract motion studies, designed atmosphere machines, and built theater apparatus. They also organized the famous Bauhaus celebrations, where they staged themselves as a collective of new humans. For the first time, an exhibition and a catalog with sketches, drawings, photographs as well as films, figurines, costumes, models, and apparatus are now devoted to the experiments and concepts of the legendary Bauhaus stage.

Author : Elizabeth Bear
Publisher : Gallery / Saga Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781534402997

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Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear Pdf

“Outstanding…Amid a space opera resurgence, Bear’s novel sets the bar high.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from Hugo Award-winning author Elizabeth Bear. Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually. Theirs is the perilous and marginal existence—with barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big—just once—to keep them coming back for more. They pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, searching for the relics of lost human and alien vessels. But when they make a shocking discovery about an alien species that has been long thought dead, it may be the thing that could tip the perilous peace mankind has found into full-out war. Energetic and electrifying, Ancestral Night is a dazzling space opera, sure to delight fans of Alastair Reynolds, Iain M. Banks, and Peter F. Hamilton—“Bear's ability to create breathtaking variations on ancient themes and make them new and brilliant is, perhaps, unparalleled in the genre” (Library Journal, starred review).