
Getting Simple
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Getting Simple is a podcast about how you can live a more meaningful, creative & simple life, in the form of friendly, long-form conversations with creatives from eclectic areas.
Getting Simple
8M ago
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 ..read more
Getting Simple
10M ago
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 se ..read more
Getting Simple
1y ago
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
Dyn ..read more
Getting Simple
1y ago
Alex O’Connor, researcher, computer scientist, and ML manager on transformers, language and image models, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, tokenization, the latent space, 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 d ..read more
Getting Simple
2y ago
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 ..read more
Getting Simple
3y ago
Jordan Gray on creative friction, the fine line between passion projects and work, storytelling in design, and overcoming the beginner feeling.
Jordan Gray works as a Visualization Specialist at Hanbury.
Architecture and design always have a narrative—an evocative, deeper meaning. From napkin sketches, to drawing sets, to post-construction marketing, each medium for client communication is key to architectural storytelling. I've always had a passion for the visualization toolset, recognizing how renderings, photography, and filmmaking go hand-in-hand with the design process. It's m ..read more
Getting Simple
3y ago
Podcasting, live streaming, sketching, and writing highlights of 2021, and why you should start writing in public.
2020 has been an incredible year in many ways. Yet I didn't expect COVID to be as present in 2021 as it was in 2020, honestly. Wherever you are, I hope that you're staying safe and healthy and can be, at least, in contact with your close friends, even if you can not spend time with them in person. Join me as I revisit my achievements in podcasting, live streaming, sketching, and writing over the past year. Happy new year!
Links
Freediving podcast
Freediving posts: First Impres ..read more
Getting Simple
3y ago
Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Aziz Barbar on how complex machines work, technological polarization, and the growing need to make algorithms understandable.
Nono hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence.
Aziz is an architect and design technologist. He occasionally teaches design courses on computation and the built environment.
Favorite quotes
"Do we have a backup plan? Very few of us know, we're just blindly trusting these black ..read more
Getting Simple
3y ago
Host Nono Martínez Alonso and Jose Luis Garcia Del Castillo on teaching and coding live.
Nono Martínez Alonso hosts the Getting Simple podcast, sketches things that call his attention, writes stories about enjoying a slower life, and records live streams and tutorials on creative coding and machine intelligence.
Jose Luis García del Castillo y López is an architect, educator, and Doctor of Design in Technology by the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he teaches Computational Design. He runs a weekly Computational Design Live Stream at ParametricCamp.
Links
Nono.MA Live YouTube Playl ..read more
Getting Simple
3y ago
Host Nono Martínez Alonso replies to audience questions on the evolution of the live stream after a year of weekly streams.
Books
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Links
Nono.MA Live Playlist
Suggestive Drawing (and an in-depth tech dive)
CATIA, Digital Project and Gehry Technologies
Harvard GSD
Parametric modeling
People mentioned
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo
Panagiotis Michalatos
Carmen Chamorro
Adam Menges
Cal Newport
Special thanks
Bittor Arrillaga
Jean-Marc Couffin
Juanda Cabrera
Mayur Mistry
Ricardo César Rodríguez
Robb Beal ..read more