Laura Pike Seeley
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Laura Pike Seeley
Adopting a healthy scepticism towards inherited ideas means “emptying the container of the Self”, or perhaps exercising a kind of trained “forgetting” of that which is extraneous to the essential self. In this state, we become less prone to partaking in the superfluous occupations we impose upon ourselves to cope with the weight of social
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As designers, it is our responsibility to explore the discomfort zone, design holistically, and consider the full range of possibilities of what we create.
IDEO • To Design a Better Future, Embrace the Uncomfortable
Timber cities ‘could cut 100bn tons of CO2 emissions by 2100’
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For researchers interested in the intersection of animal and machine intelligence, moreover, this “supervised learning” might be limited in what it can reveal about biological brains. Animals—including humans—don’t use labeled data sets to learn. For the most part, they explore the environment on their own, and in doing so, they gain a rich and... See more
Self-Taught AI May Have a Lot in Common With the Human Brain
Neighborhoods that “improve” due to gentrification may do so in a manner that serves everyone living there—new sidewalks, more trees, more streetlights, cleaner streets—but how long can existing residents remain in a landscape that becomes rapidly unaffordable and alienating to them?
The Five Senses of Gentrification
We’re applying technology as part of a larger system to enable the rapid development of housing, and it is an incredible challenge.
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Creating pedestrian plazas like the one in Times Square is prevalent in many European and Asian cities like Amsterdam and Tokyo. They prioritize public transportation and cycling infrastructure while U.S. cities often favor cars.