CuriOdyssey is exploring nine visual patterns found in nature in a series of blog posts and in our upcoming new exhibit, THE NATURE OF PATTERNS. The patterns we will delve into are:
1. Symmetries (mirror & radial)
2. Fractals (branching)
3. Spirals
4. Flow and chaos
5. Waves and dunes
6. Bubbles and foam
7. Arrays and tiling (tessellations)
8. Cracks
9. Spots & stripes
These beautiful patterns are seen throughout the natural world, from atomic to the astronomical scale.
Philip Ball's book, "Patterns in Nature" was a source of inspiration. We recommend it to discover more about nature's incredible patterns.
Describe how golden ratio is used in making of finest structures. It present three paradigmatic case studies where Golden Mean rectangles allegedly apply in architecture: (i) The Parthenon in Athens; (ii) The United Nations Secretariat Building in New York City; and (iii) The Great Pyramid of Giza.
Maths in Art and Architecture Why Maths? Comenius projectGosia Garkowska
THIS EBOOK WAS PREPARED
AS A PART OF THE COMENIUS PROJECT
WHY MATHS?
by the students and the teachers from:
BERKENBOOM HUMANIORA BOVENBOUW, IN SINT-NIKLAAS ( BELGIUM)
EUREKA SECONDARY SCHOOL IN KELLS (IRELAND)
LICEO CLASSICO STATALE CRISTOFORO COLOMBO IN GENOA (ITALY)
GIMNAZJUM IM. ANNY WAZÓWNY IN GOLUB-DOBRZYŃ (POLAND)
ESCOLA SECUNDARIA COM 3.º CICLO D. MANUEL I IN BEJA (PORTUGAL)
IES ÁLVAREZ CUBERO IN PRIEGO DE CÓRDOBA (SPAIN)
The golden ratio is about 1.618, and represented by the Greek letter phi.
The golden ratio is sometimes called the "divine proportion," because of its frequency in the natural world.
CuriOdyssey is exploring nine visual patterns found in nature in a series of blog posts and in our upcoming new exhibit, THE NATURE OF PATTERNS. The patterns we will delve into are:
1. Symmetries (mirror & radial)
2. Fractals (branching)
3. Spirals
4. Flow and chaos
5. Waves and dunes
6. Bubbles and foam
7. Arrays and tiling (tessellations)
8. Cracks
9. Spots & stripes
These beautiful patterns are seen throughout the natural world, from atomic to the astronomical scale.
Philip Ball's book, "Patterns in Nature" was a source of inspiration. We recommend it to discover more about nature's incredible patterns.
Describe how golden ratio is used in making of finest structures. It present three paradigmatic case studies where Golden Mean rectangles allegedly apply in architecture: (i) The Parthenon in Athens; (ii) The United Nations Secretariat Building in New York City; and (iii) The Great Pyramid of Giza.
Maths in Art and Architecture Why Maths? Comenius projectGosia Garkowska
THIS EBOOK WAS PREPARED
AS A PART OF THE COMENIUS PROJECT
WHY MATHS?
by the students and the teachers from:
BERKENBOOM HUMANIORA BOVENBOUW, IN SINT-NIKLAAS ( BELGIUM)
EUREKA SECONDARY SCHOOL IN KELLS (IRELAND)
LICEO CLASSICO STATALE CRISTOFORO COLOMBO IN GENOA (ITALY)
GIMNAZJUM IM. ANNY WAZÓWNY IN GOLUB-DOBRZYŃ (POLAND)
ESCOLA SECUNDARIA COM 3.º CICLO D. MANUEL I IN BEJA (PORTUGAL)
IES ÁLVAREZ CUBERO IN PRIEGO DE CÓRDOBA (SPAIN)
The golden ratio is about 1.618, and represented by the Greek letter phi.
The golden ratio is sometimes called the "divine proportion," because of its frequency in the natural world.
Geometry in Nature - the DNA of Design for kitchens and bathrooms; art, paint...Mark Rosenhaus
The Golden Rectangle and Fibonacci numbers reveal the secret geometry of pleasing proportions found in nature. You will see the balance of forms behind the genius of Leonardo DaVinci and Frank Lloyd Wright. This program will energize your intuition in creating and selling eye-catching products and kitchen designs.
Learn How Da Vinci's Golden Proportions Create Beautiful DesignsMark Rosenhaus
Leonardo Da Vinci's use of the Golden Rectangle and Fibonacci Numbers reveal the secret geometry of pleasing proportions found in nature - plants, animals, our body - and applied to painting, sculpture, dance, architecture and kitchen design.
metamorphic architecture - guardiola house by architect peter eisenmann, which is yet to be built. how the architect relates timaeus theory of plato to the guardiola house is very interesting
i use notebooks to help me collate, collect and reorganise, and focus my ideas and findings. trying to keep it all in your head is difficult, visualising it onto paper like mindmaps, and notebooks helps reduce the cognitve load and find some clarity in the confusion. well it does for me.
ideas flourish, and i now tend to doodle more for characters and creativity visually not just written.
York presentation
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title
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There is an information overload, and as communication channels proliferate, problem solving complexity is only going to increase.
In other words, there’s more data out there in more forms and languages than ever before.
¢ Structuring information for clarity and easier understanding to acquire knowledge
¢ Which structure/visual maps are clearest/most innovation and creativity at communicating/organising this complexity within our modern culture, to be able to elicit information, perceive the info & initiate reflective praxis?
¢ Does allowing self to be visible aid or hinder the communication of this data?
¢ Using the internet to reach a large audience to collate these highly innovative/creative visuals to inform others for knowledge acquisition
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My map – language, communication, thinking
Using our innate ability to see—both with our eyes and our mind’s eye—gives us entirely
new ways to discover hidden ideas, develop those ideas intuitively, and then share those
ideas with other people in a way they are simply going to “get.” Dan Roam 10 ½ commandments of visual thinking.
We will view some of these of these ways that will creatively and innovatively help the learner / reader ‘get it’ as dan roam author of The back of the napkin sketch
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Pic – Berlo Communication
Added the 2nd message after the receiver as they decode it and it may be interpreted differently.
The receiver decodes and abstracts the knowledge contained in the message to support [her] own beliefs/attitudes. During abstraction not only is the message tweaked, decoded, and interpreted differently to the map designers own, the meaning will also.
‘what appealed to modernist thinkers was the belief that authors or designers could transmit fixed meanings through constructed forms […] a brave new world that would deliver radical messages through the authorship of form’ (Baines & Haslam, 2002, p.35).
This was the belief of structuralism, which doesn’t work within map design. Maps do not communicate knowledge, i.e. they do not transmit messages (information) with fixed meanings. They may ‘“contain” meaning put there by the cartographer’, but map users/readers ‘have pre-existing knowledge that is necessarily involved in the comprehension of the map’ (Montello, 2002, p.292).
‘the reader brings his or her own ideas & experiences to a message; language is defined by interpretation. In this way structuralism was itself dismantled or “deconstructed” (Baines & Haslam, 2002, p.36).
Maps stimulate and suggest meanings, ‘ideas & inferences by interacting with the prior beliefs’ of user/reader(s) to interpret from messages. Therefore I would like to append the decoded message column to Berlo’s model because the received message is not the same, fig 15. Meaning is interpreted differently, the structure, style, topic, element everything is identical but decoded within the beliefs/attitudes, experiences/wisdom & ideas of the user (Montello, 2002, p.296).
‘What something means to individuals is dependent on the discourses available to them’ (Richardson, L, 2005, p. 961)
When I interpret I go through ‘a decoding operation, which implies the implementation of a cognitive acquirement’ I have learnt particular ‘cultural codes’. These cultural codes can access the ‘stratum of secondary meanings, i.e. the level of the meaning of what is signified’ to understand as much of its meaning and purpose as possible (Bourdieu, 1979, p.2). The semiotician Ferdinand de Saussures explains this that ‘language is determined by culture’ and that ‘structuralism tells us that the link between words & their meaning is arbitrary; post structuralism adds that this link is culturally determined & ever changing’ (sharples, 1999, p69 – 70).
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Pic – Schram Communication
It is a circular continuation of communication. Thi
MacLeod, an advertising executive and popular blogger with a flair for the creative, gives his 26 tried-and-true tips for being truly creative. Each point illustrated by a cartoon drawn by the author himself.
If you've ever felt the draw to do something creative but just haven't been able to pull it together, you'll love this manifesto.
found: eagereyes.org
Enquiring Minds is...
a response to the challenges schools face in the task of preparing children for a future characterised by rapid social, technological and cultural change
a distinctive approach to teaching and learning that takes seriously the knowledge, ideas, interests and skills that students bring into schools
a set of principles to underpin relationships between adults and children in schools and classrooms, which see children taking increasing responsibility for determining the content and purpose of their learning
a set of print and digital tools to support teachers and school leaders to implement, adapt and explore Enquiring Minds approaches
a three-year programme of research testing these approaches, principles and resources in UK schools.
found here: http://www.enquiringminds.org.uk/our_research/reports_and_papers/position_papers/
this is an excellant set of tasks to make sure you develop, progress grow and break from the norm. you prob do some already but always good to try some of the others.
Blogviz is a flash driven visualization model for mapping the transmission and internal structure of top links across the blogosphere. It explores the idea of meme propagation by assuming a parallel with the spreading of most cited URLs in daily weblog entries.
Blogviz is currently a portrait of blogosphere’s topic activity during the first 64 days of 2005. Nevertheless, the model was developed to easily incorporate different timeframes. Blogviz will continue to expand in the future, to the possible point of including real-time data.
found here: http://www.blogviz.com/blogviz/
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
3. INCE earliest history, man has continued to develop his sense of proportion in the shaping of his world. With the development of mathematics (the measuring of objects and space), early design began the arrangement of objects in harmonious relationship to each other and the space they occupied.
11. To construct the Golden Mean take a one by one square, repeat it. Create a two by two square on one edge. Then the three by three, etc. The whole set follows what is called a Fibonacci series
12. Tracing out the natural curve creates the nautilus shell shape
13. In the Nautilus shell the ratio of each segment to the next is; 1.618:1 Again the golden Mean.
15. The spirals in this plant follow precisely the golden mean curve. This occurs because they are arranged at 360/1.618 degrees to each other
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19. Dynamic Symmetry In the twentieth century two people played primary roles in the revival of the golden section as a design element. One was Jay Hambridge, and author and art instructor, whose book, Elements of Dynamic Symmetry' was first published in 1920. The other was Le Corbusier, an authentic genius of twentieth century design, who developed our first clearly identifiable design system called the Modulor.
20. Fashion The golden mean gauge shows that the dominant landmarks are in the golden proportion
22. The four front teeth, from central incisor to premolar are the most significant part of the smile and they are in the Golden Proportion to each other.
23. When written freehand we tend to design letters so that the intersections are in the ratio of the Golden Mean. To a greater or lesser degree of accuracy. Using examples of your freehand typography designs estimate the ratio.
24. The size of the top loop is in proportion to the bottom loop.