Virtual Architectures
@virt-arch.bsky.social
Creative Technologist on the Data Stories project at MUSSI
Data Visualisation | Urban Sensing | Mixed Realities | 3D Dynamic Mapping
Data Visualisation | Urban Sensing | Mixed Realities | 3D Dynamic Mapping
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New paper - 'Urban digital twins: Digital twins for participatory steering' with @robkitchin.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... The paper appears in the latest special issue of New Media & Society on 'Digital Twinning': journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8
'Against Storytelling' - A refreshing piece by Miriam Rasch via @publicseminar.bsky.social publicseminar.org/2025/12/agai...
Against Storytelling - Public Seminar
The glorification of storytelling to define who we are or save the planet induces aversion in some. Do digitally packaged stories restrict how we perceive our often rambling, fragmentary lives?
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December 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
'Against Storytelling' - A refreshing piece by Miriam Rasch via @publicseminar.bsky.social publicseminar.org/2025/12/agai...
"Half the houses built don't Exist" - Check out the Data Stories blog for a summary of Danielle and Sam's presentation at the Digital Geographies conference 'Artificial Geographies: opening the black box for a new wave of critical thinking' in Lisbon: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=853
November 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
"Half the houses built don't Exist" - Check out the Data Stories blog for a summary of Danielle and Sam's presentation at the Digital Geographies conference 'Artificial Geographies: opening the black box for a new wave of critical thinking' in Lisbon: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=853
Good talk on video game environments and spatial documentation for development from #GodotFest2025 - 'Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game' by Robin-Yann Storm: media.ccc.de/v/godotfest2...
Gyms, Zoos, and Museums
Everyone always mentions that people do not read documentation. This is also the case for us as game developers. So what can we do about ...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Good talk on video game environments and spatial documentation for development from #GodotFest2025 - 'Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game' by Robin-Yann Storm: media.ccc.de/v/godotfest2...
I recently started a postgraduate diploma in Cybersecurity and I've really enjoyed researching different historic and contemporary encryption techniques. Here's a couple of diagrams I prepared with Excalidraw for my notes. Still working out the best way to communicate the AES S-box and round keys.
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I recently started a postgraduate diploma in Cybersecurity and I've really enjoyed researching different historic and contemporary encryption techniques. Here's a couple of diagrams I prepared with Excalidraw for my notes. Still working out the best way to communicate the AES S-box and round keys.
Data Stories were busy during Maynooth Research Week. Check out our involvement in Maynooth Sparks 2025, and our workshop session 'Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland’s property market by spoofing property websites': datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=834
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Data Stories were busy during Maynooth Research Week. Check out our involvement in Maynooth Sparks 2025, and our workshop session 'Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland’s property market by spoofing property websites': datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=834
Very intriguing! A new paper discusses Skyfall-GS, a process for obtaining navigable 3D scenes from Satellite imagery via Gaussian Splats: skyfall-gs.jayinnn.dev
Skyfall-GS: Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagery
Skyfall-GS converts satellite images to explorable 3D urban scenes using diffusion models, with real-time rendering performance.
skyfall-gs.jayinnn.dev
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Very intriguing! A new paper discusses Skyfall-GS, a process for obtaining navigable 3D scenes from Satellite imagery via Gaussian Splats: skyfall-gs.jayinnn.dev
Read our latest blogpost on workshops engaging Collaborative Urban Planning with Data by @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Helen Shaw and Carla Maria Kayanan. Also features real-time illustration by Eimear McNally: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=826
November 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Read our latest blogpost on workshops engaging Collaborative Urban Planning with Data by @juliettedavret.bsky.social, Helen Shaw and Carla Maria Kayanan. Also features real-time illustration by Eimear McNally: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=826
Exciting times! I've been eagerly awaiting EPUB reading with Zotero on iOS. Now it's here! www.zotero.org/blog/ios-epu...
Zotero Blog » Blog Archive » Now available in Zotero for iOS: EPUB and webpage snapshot annotation and PDF metadata retrieval
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Exciting times! I've been eagerly awaiting EPUB reading with Zotero on iOS. Now it's here! www.zotero.org/blog/ios-epu...
If you are working on structured data extraction and OCR with tricky documents like PDFs I strongly recommend checking out Docling. Good presentation via the Chaos Computer Club:
media.ccc.de/v/sps25-5645...
media.ccc.de/v/sps25-5645...
Docling: Get your documents ready for generative AI
Docling is an open-source Python package that simplifies document processing by parsing diverse formats — including advanced PDF understa...
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October 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
If you are working on structured data extraction and OCR with tricky documents like PDFs I strongly recommend checking out Docling. Good presentation via the Chaos Computer Club:
media.ccc.de/v/sps25-5645...
media.ccc.de/v/sps25-5645...
Circular deals among AI companies via @flowingdata.com flowingdata.com/2025/10/13/c...
Circular deals among AI companies
The big AI companies are making deals with each other, promising and distributing hundreds of billions of dollars over the next few years. It’s difficult to keep track, but Bloomberg has this…
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October 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Circular deals among AI companies via @flowingdata.com flowingdata.com/2025/10/13/c...
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Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland's property market by spoofing property websites by @virt-arch.bsky.social, Ella Harris, Carla Kayanan, Hannah Mumby. Session as part of Research Week at MU, October 23, 2025, 13:00 to 14:00 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Daft.ie for Noobs: Gaming Ireland's property market by spoofing property websites by @virt-arch.bsky.social, Ella Harris, Carla Kayanan, Hannah Mumby. Session as part of Research Week at MU, October 23, 2025, 13:00 to 14:00 www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...
Data Stories recently held a two-day workshop on #ResearchCreation and the application of arts-based methods. The talks and workshops covered a wide range of approaches. Check out our summary and all of our participants' slides on the Data Stories blog: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=768
October 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Data Stories recently held a two-day workshop on #ResearchCreation and the application of arts-based methods. The talks and workshops covered a wide range of approaches. Check out our summary and all of our participants' slides on the Data Stories blog: datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie?p=768
Smart! Looks very promising for getting actual work done.
If you've been trying to figure out DSPy - the automatic prompt optimization system - this talk by @dbreunig.bsky.social is the clearest explanation I've seen yet, with a very useful real-world case study www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Zt...
My notes here: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/4/d...
My notes here: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/4/d...
Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound AI Pipelines
YouTube video by Databricks
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October 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Smart! Looks very promising for getting actual work done.
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Instructions for how to opt out of LinkedIn using your data to train generative 'AI' may be found here: www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi...
LinkedIn and generative AI (GAI) FAQs | LinkedIn Help
LinkedIn and generative AI (GAI) FAQs
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September 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Instructions for how to opt out of LinkedIn using your data to train generative 'AI' may be found here: www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi...
New reads incoming! I'm very much looking forward to diving into 'Code' by Bernard Geoghegan on the crossover between information and French theory followed by Leif Weatherby's 'Language Machines' on generative AI and the concept of 'remainder humanism'. (???)
September 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
New reads incoming! I'm very much looking forward to diving into 'Code' by Bernard Geoghegan on the crossover between information and French theory followed by Leif Weatherby's 'Language Machines' on generative AI and the concept of 'remainder humanism'. (???)
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New report: ‘The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues’
New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets)
mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...
Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO
New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets)
mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...
Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO
September 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
New report: ‘The property and planning data ecosystem in Ireland: Gaps, silences and issues’
New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets)
mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...
Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO
New resource: Directory of longitudinal datasets about property & planning in Ireland (>350 datasets)
mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...
Based on workshops held by Data Stories project and CSO
Damn I like this workflow! Looks like Strudel/TidalCycles doing Djent via Bespoke Synth: youtu.be/n0rhn9-PRwE
Strudel/TidalCycles Live Coding Metal Djents
YouTube video by boggo
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September 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Damn I like this workflow! Looks like Strudel/TidalCycles doing Djent via Bespoke Synth: youtu.be/n0rhn9-PRwE
Nicely said! - "Science is not a popularity contest; you can’t bully your way to truth. And you can’t make AI better if you drown out the critics and keep pouring good money after bad." via @garymarcus.bsky.social: garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-wa...
OpenAI’s Waterloo? [with corrections]
Post GPT-5, the narrative has flipped — and that could hurt them
garymarcus.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Nicely said! - "Science is not a popularity contest; you can’t bully your way to truth. And you can’t make AI better if you drown out the critics and keep pouring good money after bad." via @garymarcus.bsky.social: garymarcus.substack.com/p/openais-wa...
Where are my Agonists at! I finally got to read these two from Laclau and DiSalvo cover to cover. Strongly recommend!
August 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Where are my Agonists at! I finally got to read these two from Laclau and DiSalvo cover to cover. Strongly recommend!
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Two months have passed since we last tested AI models against our geolocation skillsets. Within that time more advanced models like GPT-5 and Google AI mode have launched. So @foeke.bsky.social is back again to put the chatbots to work… www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
LLMs vs. Geolocation: GPT-5 performs worse than other AI models - bellingcat
Bellingcat challenged the latest models—Grok, GPT and Gemini—on geolocation tasks, revealing GPT-5 as a clear downgrade.
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August 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Two months have passed since we last tested AI models against our geolocation skillsets. Within that time more advanced models like GPT-5 and Google AI mode have launched. So @foeke.bsky.social is back again to put the chatbots to work… www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
Dries Depoorter on creative technologies and surveillance at #WHY2025 via Chaos Computer Club: media.ccc.de/v/why2025-27...
Dries Depoorter
Belgian creative technologist and artist Dries Depoorter, based in Ghent, creates thought-provoking work about technology, surveillance, ...
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August 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Dries Depoorter on creative technologies and surveillance at #WHY2025 via Chaos Computer Club: media.ccc.de/v/why2025-27...
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Nothing is permanent on social media. Users deleting their posts or webpages can lead to the erasure of a trail of evidence that may be crucial to your investigations. But how do you keep that data? We've updated our Auto Archiver tool to make archiving easier... www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence - bellingcat
Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down
www.bellingcat.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Nothing is permanent on social media. Users deleting their posts or webpages can lead to the erasure of a trail of evidence that may be crucial to your investigations. But how do you keep that data? We've updated our Auto Archiver tool to make archiving easier... www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
"Sometimes I'm saddened remembering that we've viewed the earth from space. [...] But, of all these things, I most mourn the loss of incomplete maps." via @outsidetext.bsky.social: outsidetext.substack.com/p/how-does-a...
How Does A Blind Model See The Earth?
A tiny LLM eval with pretty pictures
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August 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"Sometimes I'm saddened remembering that we've viewed the earth from space. [...] But, of all these things, I most mourn the loss of incomplete maps." via @outsidetext.bsky.social: outsidetext.substack.com/p/how-does-a...
Errant thought - An LLM is a surprisingly successful dowsing rod which navigates language by pointing to the next token. The rod is a model which points in a vector determined by the combined influence of it's input, it's weights, it's biases and activations. Spooky!
August 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Errant thought - An LLM is a surprisingly successful dowsing rod which navigates language by pointing to the next token. The rod is a model which points in a vector determined by the combined influence of it's input, it's weights, it's biases and activations. Spooky!
'Is AI for the birds? The beauty of backyard birdsong data' by Logan Williams at #WHY2025 via @ccc.de: media.ccc.de/v/why2025-24...
Is AI for the birds? The beauty of backyard birdsong data
Birdsong is all around us, but is there a deeper meaning? Can computer analysis help us decipher these hidden patterns in our own backyar...
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August 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
'Is AI for the birds? The beauty of backyard birdsong data' by Logan Williams at #WHY2025 via @ccc.de: media.ccc.de/v/why2025-24...