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June 11, 2024#74: Andy Payne — Grasshopper 2
Andy Payne—architect and software developer at McNeel—on Grasshopper 2's latest features.

Andy Payne is a licensed architect and software developer at Robert McNeel & Associates, the company behind Rhino and Grasshopper 3D. He is a Doctor of Design graduate from Harvard's Graduate School of Design (2014). Andy has lectured and taught workshops throughout the US, Canada, and Europe, and his work has received awards from several leading academic organizations. Andy has also co-authored several software plugins and desktop apps (including Firefly and Monolith). At McNeel, Andy works on the Grasshopper and Rhino.Compute projects for the Rhino 3D modeling environment.

Connect with Andy
LIFT Architects
Monolith by Andy Payne & Panagiotis Michalatos
Firefly by Andy Payne & Jason Kelly Johnson
Links
Rhinoceros
Grasshopper 3D
Content Cache component
Figurines
Shouts
Rhino Core-Hour Billing
Grasshopper Hops
New Grasshopper data types
Metafold
Monolith
Plasticity
Blender
People mentioned
David Rutten · McNeel
Kike García · McNeel
Chapters
00:00 · Introduction
00:50 · Grasshopper 2
03:03 · Data types
04:44 · Content Cache component
06:35 · Rhino Compute
07:37 · Object attributes
08:36 · New features
08:51 · Shouts
09:50 · Visual diffing and graphics
10:24 · Figurines
11:33 · Installing Grasshopper 2
12:32 · Andy's day-to-day
13:39 · 3D tools

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16 min
April 30, 2024#73: Andy Payne — Grasshopper, Rhino Compute, Teaching, Learning to Code & Gen AI
Andy Payne—architect and software developer at McNeel—on the origins of Grasshopper, Grasshopper 2, Rhino.Compute, teaching, learning to code, generative AI, open-source code, and his journey.

Andy Payne is a licensed architect and software developer at Robert McNeel & Associates, the company behind Rhino and Grasshopper 3D. He is a Doctor of Design graduate from Harvard's Graduate School of Design (2014). Andy has lectured and taught workshops throughout the US, Canada, and Europe, and his work has received awards from several leading academic organizations. Andy has also co-authored several software plugins and desktop apps (including Firefly and Monolith). At McNeel, Andy works on the Grasshopper and Rhino.Compute projects for the Rhino 3D modeling environment.

Connect with Andy
LinkedIn
LIFT Architects
Monolith by Andy Payne & Panagiotis Michalatos
Firefly by Andy Payne & Jason Kelly Johnson
Favorite quotes
“Nobody wants to spend days and days developing a model. Our job as developers is to make it as easy as possible. […] There’s something about the craft and time you spent developing your ideas into a 3D model. There’s something about that investment that makes it worthwhile. When you have an easy AI button that makes it for you then it trivializes [the process].” —Andy Payne
“Originally the product was called Explicit History, because it was a different approach to Rhino's native (implicit) history feature.” —David Rutten
Links
Rhinoceros
Grasshopper 3D
Explicit History
Form-Z
3ds Max
Slow Food Nation Canopy (2008)
Grasshopper Primer by Andy Payne & Rajaa Issa
Grasshopper Data Trees
Rhino.Compute (Source code)
Grasshopper Hops
New Grasshopper data types
Rhino Core-Hour Billing
Visual Programming
C-Sharp (C#), Visual Basic (VB) & Python
Stable Diffusion, DALL-E & Midjourney
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper
IKEA effect
People mentioned
Rajaa Issa · McNeel
David Rutten · McNeel
Jason Kelly Johnson · FUTUREFORMS
Daniel Piker
Shelby Doyle
Edward Hopper
Panagiotis Michalatos
Chapters
00:00 · Introduction
00:35 · Andy Payne
04:11 · Grasshopper origins
07:23 · Andy meets Grasshopper
09:19 · Grasshopper Primer
10:26 · Grasshopper 1.0
13:22 · Grasshopper 2
15:11 · Developing Grasshopper
16:59 · New data types
18:57 · Rhino Compute & Hops
22:32 · Cloud billing
27:05 · Teaching
30:07 · Visual programming
36:23 · Open source & monetization
42:03 · McNeel Forum
50:07 · Connect with Andy
51:57 · Learning to code
58:00 · Generative AI
01:02:09 · The IKEA effect
01:05:38 · Authorship
01:08:56 · AI trade-offs
01:12:58 · Panagiotis Michalatos
01:16:02 · Advice for young people
01:17:08 · Success
01:18:35 · $100 or less
01:20:12 · Outro

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1 hr 22 min
June 30, 2023#72: Ian Keough — Hypar, Open Source, Remote Work, Monetization, and Generative AI
Ian Keough—CEO and founder of Hypar and the father of Dynamo—on how Hypar is creating the next-generation platform to design, generate, and share buildings, and thoughts on open-source software, visual programming, authorship, monetization, and generative AI.

Connect with Ian
Hypar
Hypar Elements
Hypar on Discord
Favorite quotes
“What would we have to build to have [our new AEC software stack] decoupled from all of the historical and legacy software?”
“I just can’t stand toil.”
“You don't wanna penalize the customer for using the system more.”
Links
Revit
Tekla
AutoCAD
PyTorch
Unity
Dynamo
Grasshopper
Python and C#
IFC
OpenAI Codex
DALL-E
Stable Diffusion
GPT
Runway ML
Gather
Visual Studio Code
GitHub Copilot
NVIDIA’s Omniverse
Calendly
Zebra G-750 retractable gel metal pen
People mentioned
Andrew Heumann
Matt Campbell
Serena Li
Chuck Driesler
Eric Wassail
Eric Bass
Anthony Hauck
Brian Ringley
Chapters
00:00 · Introduction
02:08 · Hypar
12:02 · Hypar Elements
14:11 · Visual programming
16:59 · C Sharp
18:24 · Grasshopper on the cloud
19:57 · Do I need to code?
22:11 · Toil
24:03 · Sharing
26:00 · Authorship and knowledge dissemination
37:16 · Remote work
39:27 · Gather
40:44 · Monetization
48:18 · Advice for young people
49:11 · A $100 purchase
50:47 · Artificial intelligence
53:32 · Sustainability
55:37 · Exercise
57:33 · Generative AI

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1 hr 4 min
April 26, 2023#71: Alex O'Connor — Transformers, Generative AI, and the Deep Learning Revolution
Alex O’Connor—researcher and ML manager—on the latest trends of generative AI. Language and image models, prompt engineering, the latent space, fine-tuning, tokenization, textual inversion, adversarial attacks, and more.

Alex O’Connor got his PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin. He was a postdoctoral researcher and funded investigator for the ADAPT Centre for digital content, at both TCD and later DCU. In 2017, he joined Pivotus, a Fintech startup, as Director of Research. Alex has been Sr Manager for Data Science & Machine Learning at Autodesk for the past few years, leading a team that delivers machine learning for e-commerce, including personalization and natural language processing.

Favorite quotes
“None of these models can read.”
“Art in the future may not be good, but it will be prompt.” Mastodon
Books
Machine Learning Systems Design by Chip Huyen
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow by Aurélien Géron
Papers
The Illustrated Transformer by Jay Alammar
Attention Is All You Need by Google Brain
Transformers: a Primer by Justin Seonyong Lee
Links
Alex in Mastodon ★
Training Dream Booth Multimodal Art on HuggingFace by @akhaliq
NeurIPS
arxiv.org: Where most papers get published
Nono’s Discord
Suggestive Drawing: Nono’s master’s thesis
Crungus is a fictional character from Stable Diffusion’s latent space
Machine learning models
Stable Diffusion
Arcane Style Stable Diffusion fine-tuned model ★
Imagen
DALL-E
CLIP
GPT and ChatGPT
BERT, ALBERT & RoBERTa
Bloom
word2vec
Mupert.ai and Google’s MusicLM
t-SNE and UMAP: Dimensionality reduction techniques
char-rnn
Sites
TensorFlow Hub
HuggingFace Spaces ★
DreamBooth
Jasper AI
Midjourney
Distill.pub ★
Concepts
High-performance computing (HPC)
Transformers and Attention
Sequence transformers
Quadratic growth
Super resolution
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs)
Long short-term memory networks (LSTMs)
Gated recurrent units (GRUs)
Bayesian classifiers
Machine translation
Encoder-decoder
Gradio
Tokenization ★
Embeddings ★
Latent space
The distributional hypothesis
Textual inversion ★
Pretrained models
Zero-shot learning
Mercator projection
People mentioned
Ted Underwood UIUC
Chip Huyen
Aurélien Géron
Chapters
00:00 · Introduction
00:40 · Machine learning
02:36 · Spam and scams
15:57 · Adversarial attacks
20:50 · Deep learning revolution
23:06 · Transformers
31:23 · Language models
37:09 · Zero-shot learning
42:16 · Prompt engineering
43:45 · Training costs and hardware
47:56 · Open contributions
51:26 · BERT and Stable Diffusion
54:42 · Tokenization
59:36 · Latent space
01:05:33 · Ethics
01:10:39 · Fine-tuning and pretrained models
01:18:43 · Textual inversion
01:22:46 · Dimensionality reduction
01:25:21 · Mission
01:27:34 · Advice for beginners
01:30:15 · Books and papers
01:34:17 · The lab notebook
01:44:57 · Thanks

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1 hr 46 min
December 07, 2022#70: Zach Kron — Art, Creativity, and Personal Evolution
Zach Kron, senior product manager at Autodesk, on making and selling pen plotter art, evolving with your projects, capturing ideas, and remote work.

Zach is a Senior Product Manager at Autodesk, a global provider of design software. Since 2007, Zach has been involved in the research and implementation of digital tools that drive real world building projects and increase the availability of advanced design practices. While his focus is on making software, Zach also participates in teaching, hands-on workshops, hackathons, and all other forms of design technology community development.
You can find Zach at Buildz.info.

Zach’s
Art store
Blog
First podcast appearance
Favorite quotes
“The process is fun, and more than the actual editing process is the process of ideating the best workflow that you can get.” —Nono
“We aren't really good at having something that you do just for the sake of it. We need to have the side effect.” —Zach
“But you have to remember that I didn't have to put on pants today.” —Zach
Books
Formulations by Andrew Witt
Systems Upgrade by Leire Asensio Villoria and David Mah
The Information by James Clear
Links
Pen plotter art
Chiaroscuro (art)
Dynamo and Revit (software)
Adobe Podcast (formerly Project Shasta)
In Seth Godin’s words, “funktionlust is a German word that describes the love of doing something merely for the sake of doing it.”
Social capital (concept)
People mentioned
Jose Luis García del Castillo (podcast)
Andrew Witt (podcast)
Rev Dan Catt (@revdancatt)
Dana De Filippi - DanamoBIM
Bill Debevc - YouTube channel
Seth Godin (author)
Steven Pressfield (author)
Lex Fridman (podcast)
Neil Stephenson (author)
Alice Cooper (author)
Cal Newport (author)
Jeff Koons (artist)
Chapters
00:00 · Intro
01:00 · Evolution of this podcast
09:46 · Freediving
12:16 · Capturing ideas
13:25 · People are different in person
15:54 · Evolving with your projects
20:10 · Connecting with your audience
21:20 · Live vs. offline
26:19 · The creative medium
30:00 · Selling art
38:46 · Pen plotter art
46:34 · Making art with Dynamo
50:31 · Art
01:02:53 · Funktionlust
01:05:09 · Remote work
01:11:54 · Outro

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1 hr 14 min
October 26, 2022#69: Q&A with Nono — Podcasting Tips
Nono Martínez Alonso shares tips on producing a podcast, building an audience, booking guests, content formats, motivation, and goals.

Here's my recent conversation with Steve — who wants to build a YouTube channel about the joy of making and listening to music, emphasizing health and well-being — where I shared tips and insights from five years of podcasting.

Links
Riverside is the tool I used to record this episode remotely.
How to monetize YouTube
Perl, Java, and JavaScript are programming languages
People mentioned
Lex Fridman
Tim Ferriss
Seth Godin
Joe Rogan
Chapters
00:00 · Introduction
00:58 · Start
01:55 · Steve's idea
03:45 · Passion for music
04:37 · Podcasting
05:20 · Motivation
08:04 · Recording and editing
09:07 · Guests
11:40 · Building an audience
14:01 · Long-form conversations
15:34 · Process
17:33 · Goals
21:51 · Evergreen content
24:14 · Monetization
25:38 · Start lean
29:30 · Outline
31:59 · First episodes
33:17 · Outro

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34 min
September 30, 2022#68: Leire Asensio Villoria and David Mah — Systems Upgrade
Leire Asensio Villoria and David Mah on decoding and upgrading design systems, reverse engineering the creative process, knowledge dissemination, the long tail of niches, Erwin Hauer and associative models, book writing and publishing, and much more.

Leire Asensio is a senior lecturer in urban design and architecture and Co-Director of the Advance Digital Design + Fabrication (ADD+F) at the University of Melbourne’s school of design.
David Mah is a senior lecturer in urban design and architecture at the University of Melbourne’s school of design.
Previously, both Leire and David were lecturers at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (2010-2017), design research leads for the Health and Places Initiative, a research collaboration that studied the links between the built environment and health outcomes, and taught design and theory at Cornell University’s department of architecture (2006-2010) and Landscape Urbanism at the graduate design school of the Architectural Association in London (2004-2007).
Leire and David have worked within several international design practices, including Zaha Hadid Architects, FOA (David), or Arup (Leire), engaging in the design and delivery of urban designs and architectural projects
Leire and David have been collaborating as asensio_mah since 2002. They’ve authored the books Systems Upgrade: (Re)fabricating Tectonic Prototypes (2022, Actar) and Lifestyled: Health and Places (2016, Jovis) and have been active in the production of architectural and creative works, exhibited internationally including at the Royal Academy of Art in London and The Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and featured in professional books and journals published by Birkhauser, Evolo, Lars Muller, Actar and Routledge amongst others.
In this episode, we discuss their latest book, Systems Upgrade, which offers a design research approach that leverages the embodied knowledge latent within the material legacies of design history for direct applicability in creative practice.

Books
Systems Upgrade by Leire Asensio Villoria and David Mah
The Long Tail by Chris Anderson
Translations from Drawing to Building by Robin Evans
Links
Suture curve
Continua surface
Reconstruction of the Dresden cathedral
Sagrada Familia
Visual programming
Grasshopper
Dynamo
Digital Project
The Long Tail by Chris Anderson in WIRED
Nike by You
Objectile by Bernard Cache and Patrick Beaucé
Actar
DALL-E by OpenAI
Midjourney
Stable Diffusion
People mentioned
Erwin Hauer
Enrique Rosado
Joseph Albers
Sheila Hicks
Jørn Utzon
Miguel Fisac
Buckminster Fuller
Eladio Dieste
Victor Papanek
Antoni Gaudí
Chris Anderson
Robin Evans
Chapters
00:00 · Introduction
00:36 · Erwin Hauer
02:22 · Associative models
04:18 · Erwin Hauer's model making
07:03 · Limitations of digital tools
09:39 · Systems Upgrade book
11:10 · Reverse engineering
26:09 · Decoding Erwin Hauer
30:21 · Authorship and knowledge dissemination
36:48 · Visual programming
41:39 · Selling less of more
46:54 · Individualizing everything
49:23 · Context
53:18 · Book writing and publishing
01:02:49 · Creative process
01:11:13 · AI content generation
01:17:42 · Thanks
01:18:43 · Outro

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1 hr 19 min
July 29, 2022#67: Frank Harmon — Writing, Drawing, and Sense of Place
Frank Harmon on the purpose of writing and sketching, what makes great writers, artists, and architects, and the importance of giving people a sense of place.

Frank Harmon, FAIA, is a nationally renowned award-winning architect, a professor of architecture at NC State University’s College of Design. and a popular mentor to four decades of student architects. A graduate of the Architectural Association in London and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he has also taught at the Architectural Association and has served as a visiting critic at Harvard, the University of Virginia, and Auburn University’s renowned Rural Studio. Among dozens of design awards throughout his career, Frank received AIA NC’s highest honor, the F. Carter Williams Gold Medal, in 2013.
Frank is also a published writer and illustrator, using hand-drawn sketches and 200-word essays that consider the relationship between nature and built structures in his online journal Nativeplaces.org. In 2018, ORO Editions published a collection of sketch/essay duos from the journal and Frank's thoughts on the value of drawing in a hardback book entitled Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See. He is currently working on a new book that celebrates the people, places, and stories behind eight of his signature projects.
Frank lives in Raleigh in the award-winning modernist house and lush gardens near NCSU that he designed with his late wife, landscape architect Judy Harmon.

Favorite quotes
“My goal in life is to make short sentences.”
“We lost contact with our senses by making everything depend on the visual.”
“When we draw, we touch.”
“Once we’ve bought into the digital internet world, we’re never going to get rid of it.”
“When we make a place [we should make it] situated in its place so that we've got something physical and concrete that grounds us in an otherwise unlimited digital world.”
“Genius is the ability to recall your childhood at any time.” —Baudelaire
Books
Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See by Frank Harmon
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses by Juhani Pallasmaa
Links
Frank’s Instagram
Native Places blog by Frank Harmon
Frank’s Drawing as a Way to See talk at Clark Nexsen (2019)
Frank’s Heritage talk at Creative Mornings Raleigh (2014)
Less is Love by Frank Harmon
People mentioned
Ernest Hemingway
Joan Didion
C. S. Forester
Tadao Ando
Kevin Carl - Child psychologist, friend
Pablo Picasso
Henry David Thoureau - “ Every child discovers the world anew.”
Peter Zumthor
Jordan Gray (podcast)
Charles Baudelaire - “[G]enius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.”
William Shakespeare
Alice Munro - Canadian short story writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013
Marlon Blackwell
William Faulkner - American writer
Glenn Murcutt
Tom Kundig
Ted Flato
Rick Joy - Studio Rick Joy
Brigitte Shim - Shim-Sutcliffe Architects
Brian MacKay-Lyons
Patricia and John Patkau - Patkau Architects
Larry Scarpa
Frank Gehry
James Monroe
Henry Woodhead
Mies van der Rohe
Tadao Ando
Le Corbusier
Chapters
00:00 · Introduction
01:14 · Writing
05:00 · Becoming an architect
06:21 · Frank's book
07:19 · Living in London
09:03 · Studying abroad in the US
13:37 · Childhood place
20:38 · Born with screens
23:39 · Design
27:42 · Place
33:41 · Good architecture
37:10 · Bad architecture
38:48 · Frank Gehry's middle finger
39:31 · Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See
43:47 · The best way to write
44:23 · The purpose of sketching
45:45 · Thanks
46:09 · Outro

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47 min
June 29, 2022#66: DALL-E 2, The Creative Process, and Blogging Tools
Experiments with OpenAI’s text-to-image generation AI system DALL-E 2, mini-essays on the creative process and being done, and blogging tools you can use.

Links
DALL-E 2, Explained by Nono (video)
Variations of "A minimalist 3d render of a balloon car" plus "A sunflower" by Edward Hopper by Nono x DALL-E
OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 publication
Google Imagen: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Google Parti: Pathways Autoregressive Text-to-Image Model
The meaning of done (post)
If it's not fun, you shouldn't do it (post)
Another one of those (post)
Folio: Nono’s content management system
Substack, Twitter Writer & Medium (blogging platforms)
Ghost, WordPress, Jekyll, Hugo & Next.js (blogging frameworks)
Nono’s sketches and stories
YouTube channel
Books
Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
People mentioned
Frank Harmon
Ray Dalio
Chapters
00:00 · Introduction
00:39 · An incoming conversation with Frank Harmon
01:34 · Episode contents
01:55 · DALL-E 2 and AI systems
06:45 · What can DALL-E do?
09:54 · GPT-3: Language models
12:05 · Mini-Essays on the creative process
12:15 · Mini-Essay: The meaning of done
13:38 · Mini-Essay: If it's no fun, you shouldn't do it
15:33 · Mini-Essay: Another one of those
16:51 · Writing series
17:51 · What does Nono use for blogging?
22:45 · Outro

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24 min
May 31, 2022#65: Sketches — It's Nice to See You, In Person
Thoughts on traveling and meeting people in person after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Favorite quotes
"You can do anything that you set your mind to, but you don't have time to do everything.” —Frank Harmon
Links
It’s nice to see you, in person (post)
Back from Atlanta (post)
Nono’s blog
Nono’s sketches and stories
YouTube channel
Kean Walmsley’s blog post
A.I. Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg (movie)
Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever? by John Seabrook for The New Yorker
Books
Formulations by Andrew Witt
People mentioned
Andrew Witt
Frank Harmon
David Allen
Satya Nadella
Chapters
00:00 · Start
00:10 · It's Nice to See You, In Person
06:05 · Back from Atlanta
07:34 · Podcast updates

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12 min

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