The idea of the Wasteland is a potent metaphor within architecture for urban and social decay. Le Corbusier's project for a City of Tomorrow, an idealized place of industrial production, exemplifies attempts by architects to define an architecture of production within the Wasteland. The project illustrates difficulties inherent in creation of ...

Kernel or similarity matrices are essential for many state-of-the-art approaches to classification, clustering, and dimensionality reduction. For large datasets, the cost of forming and factoring such kernel matrices becomes intractable. To address this challenge, we introduce a new adaptive sampling algorithm called Accelerated Sequential Incoherence ...