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doctorcrowd
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Coffee-fueled architect and crowd science scholar. Working on built environments, fluid layouts and crowd dynamics. Cover image by Rod Bogart
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2017-10-18 05:28
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blockchain
2017-12-16 08:23
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Peer-to-Peer money in a historical context - Andreas M. Antonopoulos - Reinvent Money 2015
Money is an ancient technology. In this presentation, Andreas M. Antonopoulos examines the historical context of money as a technology and analyses the inflection points that lead to the most recent innovation
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self-organization
2017-12-08 07:44
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HD Maps for Self Driving Cars - Podcast with David Rumsey and Wei Luo
The need for ultra high definition maps for self driving cars is creating a new kind of map - the High Definition or HD map - with resolution down to a few centimeters. This is a new version of the one
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network
2017-11-27 05:43
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World Subway Map Shows What a Hyperloop-Powered Future May Look Like
The vacuum-sealed hyperloop train system came one step closer to reality last week, when a company working on bringing the transit system to life announced the next step in a global competition. Los
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technology
2017-11-22 09:13
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Human vs Computer: Becoming More Employable then an Algorithm
Chinese philosopher, Confucius, praised Go as the only game worth playing. Originating in China at least 2,500 years ago, Go is a simple game of encirclement but one with a strategy deeper than chess,
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blockchain
2017-11-15 05:33
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Bitcoin coffee machine that engages coffee drinkers in the value chain
Video: The BitBarista is a self-service coffee machine that accepts BTC. Not only that, it will send people BTC if they were to help ensure it remains operational, e.g. maintenance tasks, refilling, etc.
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urban-design
2017-11-11 06:46
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The City of the Future Is Hiding in the Arizona Desert
Video: Compelling article by Daniel Oberhaus for Motherboard, that brought back great memories of my time there and led me to search for some videos of that magical, challenging, hard-to-describe place.
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biomimicry
2017-11-10 09:10
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Biomimicry: turning birds into bullet trains
Nature has amassed 3.8 billion years of R&D on how to engineer and design things and systems. So when designers are looking at how to solve problems, they should pay closer attention to how the
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technology
2017-11-10 07:25
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Re:scam is an e-mail chat bot designed to waste scammers' time
Re:scam, developed by Netsafe, engages with scammers over email, asking them a never-ending series of questions. It imitates real human tendencies, complete with humour and grammatical errors. The aim
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urban-design
2017-11-09 10:08
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Plans unveiled to pedestrianise London's Oxford Street in 2018
The western section of London's main shopping street is to be transformed into a pedestrian zone filled with public art, it was announced today. London mayor Sadiq Kahn has revealed plans to start imposing
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artificial-intelligence
2017-11-07 14:31
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How Baidu Will Win China’s AI Race—and, Maybe, the World’s
A Wired exclusive interview with engineer Qi Lu, Baidu's chief operating officer. What is Baidu’s equivalent of Siri or Cortana? We are focusing on two platforms to bring our customers and partners together.
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neural-network
2017-11-06 14:51
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What is backpropagation and what is it actually doing?
Great intuitive video on what #backpropagation is and how it works behind the scenes to train neural networks. Via Jason Mayes
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urban-design
2017-11-06 12:21
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What If Manhattan Were Designed Like Paris?
A digital design class at Columbia University has led to some provocative questions about New York City. The work by Charles-Antoine Perrault destabilizes our conception of Manhattan, which we so strongly
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architecture
2017-11-06 10:37
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Tianjin Binhai Library, project by MVRDV + Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute
MVRDV in collaboration with local architects TUPDI has completed the Tianjin Binhai Library, a 33,700m2 cultural centre featuring a luminous spherical auditorium around which floor-to-ceiling bookcases
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crowd-dynamics
2017-11-05 13:36
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Estimating crowds size
Knowing how many people are at an event is critical for planners and venue managers, but unless you’re carefully tracking everyone who enters and leaves, it can be easy to lose count. A human can ballpark
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crowd-dynamics
2017-11-05 13:01
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Harvey Milk Plaza redesign in San Francisco
A design team led by Perkins Eastman and Arup has been selected to redesign Harvey Milk Plaza in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood. The team’s proposal beat out bids from Groundworks Office and Kuth
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collective-behavior
2017-11-04 09:45
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How Facebook made money dividing the US into adversarial political subgroups
Indeed, it's increasingly clear that Facebook did not police its platform effectively during the 2016 election. This week, the company will have to answer questions from Congress about its missteps, including
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machine-learning
2017-11-01 20:17
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Machine Learning for Humans
Simple, plain-English explanations accompanied by math, code, and real-world examples: (Image via Wired)
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urban-design
2017-10-31 12:41
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How to Design Streets for Humans—and Self-Driving Cars
Urban planners talk about two visions of the future city: heaven and hell. Hell, in case it’s not clear, is bad—cities built for technologies, big companies, and vehicles instead of the humans who actually
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blockchain
2017-10-29 16:34
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The future of money explained with ancient stones on the tiny Pacific island of Yap
Pretty interesting — even though clearly informational — piece by Quartz and Retroreport, titled the Future of Money. I found particularly striking the part about 'stone money' which I didn't know at all
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introduceyourself
2017-10-29 14:52
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Doctorcrowd's First Post
Doctorcrowd is a research unit, an online persona and an actual human being, collecting and archiving materials mainly related to crowd dynamics, cities, collective behavior, public space, urban design,
