Christine Wen
@christopheles.bsky.social
assistant professor @TorontoMetroU | urban planning, economics, data+tech | game development
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Christine Wen
@christopheles.bsky.social
· Apr 21
nothing is everything.
this channel does great documentaries about video games that include interviews with their creators: www.youtube.com/@NoclipDocs
/noclip
We make crowdfunded video game documentaries for everyone to enjoy. Our mission is to tell authentic stories about video games, the people who make them, and those who play them. Our work is funded by...
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December 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
this channel does great documentaries about video games that include interviews with their creators: www.youtube.com/@NoclipDocs
how many millennials spent their 20s acquiring nerdy/rustic things and then their 30s getting rid of them and going minimalist... having extracted essence from objects, creative works, institutions, etc. and internalized lessons from experiences - new generations will just skip over all this..
November 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM
how many millennials spent their 20s acquiring nerdy/rustic things and then their 30s getting rid of them and going minimalist... having extracted essence from objects, creative works, institutions, etc. and internalized lessons from experiences - new generations will just skip over all this..
sleep problems suck but vivid intense dreams are kind of a blessing, like having lived more than in actuality; sometimes, months or years passed - wars fought and won, buildings torn down and re-raised, places flooded and songs written, etc. of course symbolic/simulated but also not nothing
October 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
sleep problems suck but vivid intense dreams are kind of a blessing, like having lived more than in actuality; sometimes, months or years passed - wars fought and won, buildings torn down and re-raised, places flooded and songs written, etc. of course symbolic/simulated but also not nothing
"successful design can be born from fragility, instead of stability" (though I suppose one could argue that predictability == adaptability) www.archdaily.com/638523/5-arc...
5 Architectural Secrets of the Badjao: 21st Century Sea People
Thousands of years ago, a small civilization of hunter gatherers migrated to the coastal regions of Southeast Asia. T...
www.archdaily.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
"successful design can be born from fragility, instead of stability" (though I suppose one could argue that predictability == adaptability) www.archdaily.com/638523/5-arc...
teaching municipal finance to 4th year urban planning students: this week (after 'market + city basics' and before 'tax/fee/grant incidence - efficiency, fairness, accountability'): scale, location, choice, power. aka urban economics. should be a fun one.
September 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
teaching municipal finance to 4th year urban planning students: this week (after 'market + city basics' and before 'tax/fee/grant incidence - efficiency, fairness, accountability'): scale, location, choice, power. aka urban economics. should be a fun one.
lol the fiscal ship: fiscalship.org?ignore-brows...
August 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
lol the fiscal ship: fiscalship.org?ignore-brows...
August 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
:o - I'm just discovering the late Dr. A. Chegut's work, like the MIT Tech Tracker for Real Estate which is also really cool: techtracker.mit.edu
August 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
:o - I'm just discovering the late Dr. A. Chegut's work, like the MIT Tech Tracker for Real Estate which is also really cool: techtracker.mit.edu
worldbuilding.stackexchange.com the most random collection of hypotheticals for brainstorm sparks
Worldbuilding Stack Exchange
Q&A for writers/artists using science, geography and culture to construct imaginary worlds and settings
worldbuilding.stackexchange.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
worldbuilding.stackexchange.com the most random collection of hypotheticals for brainstorm sparks
good overview: socialworklicensemap.com/social-work-...
Theories & Practice Models Used in Social Work
Theories and practice models used in social work vary based on the circumstances of application. Learn differences between these theories and practice models.
socialworklicensemap.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
good overview: socialworklicensemap.com/social-work-...
this is an excellent tutorial video for #Obsidian, a personal knowledge management software - which I think everyone, definitely researchers, should adopt to better track insight development and isolate unique values/wisdom: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Bk...
Obsidian For Beginners 📝 Non-Linear Note Taking, Plugins & Templates
YouTube video by Wanderloots
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August 3, 2025 at 3:43 PM
this is an excellent tutorial video for #Obsidian, a personal knowledge management software - which I think everyone, definitely researchers, should adopt to better track insight development and isolate unique values/wisdom: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Bk...
the Lincoln Institute's (totally free) course "foundations of local government finance in the U.S." really is quite good. I like how it doesn't skip over why these things exist in the first place; the supplemental resources are helpful too: lincolninst.catalog.instructure.com/browse/credi...
Foundations of Local Government Finance in the United States - Credit Courses
lincolninst.catalog.instructure.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
the Lincoln Institute's (totally free) course "foundations of local government finance in the U.S." really is quite good. I like how it doesn't skip over why these things exist in the first place; the supplemental resources are helpful too: lincolninst.catalog.instructure.com/browse/credi...
this looks great: mapcraft.io "MapCraft makes it easy to simulate the impact of different policy options or changing market conditions. With just a few clicks, users create new scenarios to test how widespread changes or geographically targeted measures would impact outcomes."
MapCraft
mapcraft.io
July 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
this looks great: mapcraft.io "MapCraft makes it easy to simulate the impact of different policy options or changing market conditions. With just a few clicks, users create new scenarios to test how widespread changes or geographically targeted measures would impact outcomes."
fun math games with proofs: adam.math.hhu.de
June 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
fun math games with proofs: adam.math.hhu.de
keep an eye on this: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Quantum AI Urbanism: Redefining the Future of Artificial Intelligence in Cities
The increasing complexity of urban environments necessitates computational advancements beyond the capabilities of classical systems. Traditional computing frameworks, grounded in a Newtonian world...
www.tandfonline.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
keep an eye on this: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
it's nice - and not limited to verbs: cooljugator.com
Cooljugator - Verb Conjugator
Conjugate thousands of verbs in over 40 languages with forms and examples on Cooljugator
cooljugator.com
May 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
it's nice - and not limited to verbs: cooljugator.com
it's time: distrowatch.com/table.php?di... will share when fully "riced"
April 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
it's time: distrowatch.com/table.php?di... will share when fully "riced"
www.pdf24.org/en/ for those looking for a pdf alternative to Acrobat Reader
Solutions for all PDF problems - 100% free - PDF24
Free solutions for all PDF problems. Online and offline. Merge PDF, Compress PDF, Edit PDF, Convert PDF, ...
www.pdf24.org
April 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
www.pdf24.org/en/ for those looking for a pdf alternative to Acrobat Reader
you play as a young boy looking for a hidden room in a house that changes according to your drafts-each room having its own set of attributes and special effects (my favorite so far is the rompus room). Q: how many people have beaten this game, and what's the average number of in-game days it took?
April 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
you play as a young boy looking for a hidden room in a house that changes according to your drafts-each room having its own set of attributes and special effects (my favorite so far is the rompus room). Q: how many people have beaten this game, and what's the average number of in-game days it took?
nothing is everything.
April 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
nothing is everything.
I love the Opera browser for its design and standalone functionality, but it's often beset by compatibility issues - most recent I came across being some of the JupyterLab extensions. Lesson: checking for browser issues first might save a whole lot of time.....
March 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I love the Opera browser for its design and standalone functionality, but it's often beset by compatibility issues - most recent I came across being some of the JupyterLab extensions. Lesson: checking for browser issues first might save a whole lot of time.....
my first-time teaching data visualization entailed some trial and error, but this is a good progression: 0. data; 1. mapping (ArcGIS Pro); 2. programming (ArcPy/ModelBuilder), 3. statistics (pandas/NumPy/matplotlib), 4. machine learning (GraphGAN). these are first-years learning Python concurrently.
March 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
my first-time teaching data visualization entailed some trial and error, but this is a good progression: 0. data; 1. mapping (ArcGIS Pro); 2. programming (ArcPy/ModelBuilder), 3. statistics (pandas/NumPy/matplotlib), 4. machine learning (GraphGAN). these are first-years learning Python concurrently.
this channel has some good animations for algorithms. stumbled on it while looking for a video illustrating how to find the best route through a street network to show in class: www.youtube.com/@SpanningTre...
March 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
this channel has some good animations for algorithms. stumbled on it while looking for a video illustrating how to find the best route through a street network to show in class: www.youtube.com/@SpanningTre...