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Recently someone observed that by adding a research paper his ResearchGate (RG) score increases only 0.03, while by adding a comment like "thank you", his RG increase 0.3, and he concluded based...
07 July 2018 4,651 5 View
That some of us are always cold and others are constantly hot does not imply temperature is subjective:...
07 July 2018 6,479 0 View
The above question can be equally rephrased as follows: Is the goodness of architecture a matter of fact, or of opinion? Is the goodness of an artifact a matter of fact, or of opinion? Give me of...
07 July 2018 8,693 4 View
What is space? Is it what is conceived by Newton or by Leibniz? Both Newtonian and Leibnizian views of space are framed under the mechanistic thinking of Descartes back to the 17th century....
06 June 2018 2,081 4 View
"A Pattern Language: Towns, buildings, and construction" written by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King, and Shlomo Angel, and published in...
05 May 2018 8,758 3 View
No one would ask such a silly question – Is physics a science? No doubt physics is a science and actually it is commonly recognized as the king of sciences. Let me put this question into a...
04 April 2018 9,831 8 View
Someone posted this question in traditional architecture emailing list, and I found it of interest, so I re-post it here: If people suddenly disappeared, would the buildings we now consider...
03 March 2018 1,895 2 View
Which of the carpets (the left or the right) induces a greater harmony in you, in your body and in your mind?
08 August 2017 9,908 4 View
Given the two following patterns: the left or the right, which one is more beautiful than another?
08 August 2017 6,491 32 View
For a same digital elevation model (DEM), I applied different classifications. In the following figure, to the left is the outcome of natural breaks (Jenks 1967), while to the right is that of...
04 April 2015 1,981 14 View
Ht-index is a head/tail breaks-induced index for characterizing hierarchical levels of fractals or geographic features in particular. Head/tail breaks is a newly developed classification scheme,...
03 March 2015 893 0 View
So far definitions of fractals are mainly from mathematical point of view for the purpose of generating fractal sets or patterns, either strictly or statistically; see illustrations below (Figure...
03 March 2015 9,933 18 View
There are many nested (partially or fully) communities in a complex network. Taking a country for example, cities are communities within the country, neighborhoods are communities within the...
03 March 2015 4,913 11 View
Presented below are two patterns created from the data set: 1024 cities that follow precisely Zipf’s law, which implies that the first largest city is size 1, the second largest city is size 1/2,...
03 March 2015 2,039 7 View
While facing big data, we developed a visualization strategy based on head/tail breaks in order to see a clear pattern from a hairball. The strategy is to recursively drop out the tail parts until...
03 March 2015 2,341 3 View
Maps refer to either those produced by human cartographers or those created by computer tools such as geographic information systems (GIS). In other words, the maps we refer to are those produced...
03 March 2015 579 10 View
According to Christopher Alexander, beauty arises out of the wholeness, which is defined mathematically as a recursive structure, and exists in space and matter physically, and reflects in minds...
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