Peter Moonen

@mustafasuleyman @ValaAfshar The same was probably true in the 1940s when the atomic bomb was developed. Most people could not comprehend it and were thus amazed. But after its initial uses, people were also afraid.

Two things can be true. If you're not amazed by AI, you don't really understand it. If you're not afraid of AI, you don't really understand it.

@ValaAfshar 1/3 years ago I devised something similar which I called the wisdom pyramid. The spectrum I’ve observed looks sort of like this: Wisdom — what we’d like to see, but not common. Insight — awareness of a bigger picture and impacts

data → info → knowledge → insight → wisdom → impact ⇆ repeat

@ValaAfshar 3/3 Opinions — selective use and vested to influence Blogs / Rants/Tweets — emotional & reactive (as opposed to responsive) Conspiracy Theory —emotional (fear and anger)

@ValaAfshar (2/3 Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting  it in a fruit salad.) Facts — inert objectivity. Irrelevant if not contextualized. Data — pure noise and often dumped out of context Unverified Information — Noise with often a skewed view.

@ValaAfshar ( Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting  it in a fruit salad.) Facts — inert objectivity. Irrelevant if not contextualized. Data — pure noise and often dumped out of context Unverified Information — Noise with often a skewed view.

@ValaAfshar The spectrum I’ve observed looks sort of like this: Wisdom — what we’d like to see, but not common. Insight — awareness of a bigger picture and impacts Knowledge — education may mean intellect, but not necessarily intelligence, practicality and street smarts.

@ValaAfshar (2/3 Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting  it in a fruit salad.) Facts — inert objectivity. Irrelevant if not contextualized. Data — pure noise and often dumped out of context Unverified Information — Noise with often a skewed view.

@ValaAfshar 3/3 Opinions — selective use and vested to influence Blogs / Rants/Tweets — emotional & reactive (as opposed to responsive) Conspiracy Theory —emotional (fear and anger)

There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed. —Seneca

@ValaAfshar 3/3 Opinions — selective use and vested to influence Blogs / Rants/Tweets — emotional & reactive (as opposed to responsive) Conspiracy Theory —emotional (fear and anger)

@ScottMKennedy Hot on heat pumps from a pretty cool guy! Way to go, Chris.

Chris Higgins came appropriately dressed tonight for a get together over beers with energy efficiency designers during a heat wave.

@chamfy @ElrondBurrell Whittakers is wonderful. But I like hazelnut and my wife likes the milk. We are willing to share the (300 g in Canada) bar/block but don’t find it necessary. Well, I don’t anyway.

NZ’s favourite Canadian chocolate lover reacts to being on the NZ news 😂😭

@davelomax I could be wrong, but are there some Welsh signs that could give the a German language a run for its money?

Ladies and gentlemen, I give to you the German language.

@emollick People are happy to bend over backwards to find offense on issues that don’t affect them or which they don’t understand. Sarcasm from physicists (if that is even a thing) might not be understood by an architect and vice versa. In others, it’s a left- or right- or no-brain thing.

Sarcasm doesn’t work online. People think they are good at detecting sarcasm in written messages, but when tested, we turn out to be terrible. Plus, older people are even worse than younger ones. But there is a solution: end the sarcastic message with a 😉 Everyone gets that.

Spreading the Wood: Three projects that are leading the way in Canadian mass timber innovation canadianarchitect.com/spreading-the-… Via @CdnArch

@SustainableTall So, in a time of an affordability crisis, why are we singing the praises of a building with a $60 million penthouse? Passive or not, the impact of building a huge penthouse will not be offset by the reduction in energy use, of which 98% of Vancouver’s electricity is hydro.

People want to be comfortable! Who knew? World’s tallest Passivhaus has seen 90% of units snapped up westerninvestor.com/british-columb…

@KatSimsElderkin Sprinkler using pool water, maybe?

@davelomax Compound curves can be done with glulam. Here is an example. But you also need a multi-axis CNC machine. May also need to change the dimensions of the lamellae.

I really hope each one of these curved beams was not milled out from a rectilinear one. Otherwise that's A LOT of waste. Either way, the green aesthetic seems to be here to stay, regardless of its real carbon credentials.

@ecominimalnick @ElrondBurrell We should first ask ‘Do we need to Build?’ If yes, then what is the actual need? We can’t let ego and budget drive perceived ‘need’. But if we ARE going to build, what is the best way and with what? We don’t understand Nature’s Carbon accounting system well, if at all.

@ElrondBurrell @ecominimalnick Yes. The effort may be noble and genuine, but deflecting the impact elsewhere is neutral, at best.

@ecominimalnick @ElrondBurrell Oh, the looks I get when I say ‘No such thing as Net Zero Carbon’. Not trying to undermine the effort, aspiration or intent, but it doesn’t work ….. unless you consider storage or offsets — and offsets don’t offer a lot of confidence. Like the 1st law of thermodynamics, sort of.