" Stanford faculty may “purchase a leasehold interest.” Buyers sign a “ground lease” with the university, and then faculty members pay rent to Stanford ..
This unique structure dates to the university’s founding by Leland and Jane Stanford.."
Olmsted is often referred to as the “father of landscape architecture in America,” and is best known for New York’s Central Park, which he co-designed with architect and landscape designer Calvert Vaux ..
Olmsted knew William Henry Vanderbilt, George Vanderbilt’s father, when they both lived on Staten Island, and the designer had already worked on several Vanderbilt family projects when George Vanderbilt approached him in 1888 to advise on the first 2,000 acres of his NC property
"Plans for both Biltmore House and its surrounding landscape changed in 1889 when Vanderbilt and architect Richard Morris Hunt toured France together and the scale of Vanderbilt’s new estate expanded..
Thank goodness that Biltmore page was archived: archive.is/9406k
Prior to becoming a landscape architect, Olmsted was first a seaman, farmer, then a journalist and founder of The Nation magazine, which still exists today. .
Portrait of Frederick Law Olmsted by John Singer Sargent
During the Civil War, he served as Executive Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission (a precursor to the Red Cross). 👀
Frederick Law Olmsted was a freemason of course - The George Washington National Memorial gwmemorial.org/pages/architec…
The landscaping of the Memorial grounds was done by the renowned Olmstead Brothers firm. Founded by Frederick Law Olmsted—who designed the grounds of the
United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., New York City’s Central Park, the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina, and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago .. architecture.org/learn/resource…
The grounds of the Memorial were specifically designed by an Olmsted employee named Carl Rust Parker, one of the most renowned American landscape architects and a member of the Masonic Fraternity. tclf.org/pioneer/carl-r…
The Memorial’s form was inspired by the lighthouse of Alexandria, Egypt, one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World, and its design reflects the classical architecture of Greece and Rome.
Shelburne Farms is an education center for sustainability, created in 1886 by Dr. William Seward Webb and Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb as a model agricultural estate, using money inherited from railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt. They commissioned Frederick Law Olmsted
Lola Van Wagenen is on the board of directors of Shelburne Farms
her first husband was Robert Redford (1958-1985)
1975 to 1977, Van Wagenen developed The Sun Fund
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In 1978, she organized SunDay in New York with the UN
Slave Gardens : encyclopedia.com/humanities/app…
Frederick Law Olmsted explained that slaves on a South Carolina plantation were "at liberty to sell whatever they choose from the products of their own garden"
Revisiting Olmsted's legacy may prove interesting..considering ...
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"The famous armillary globe sculpture in the Cour d'Honneur (Court of Honour) at the Palais des Nations in Geneva is titled the " Celestial Sphere – Woodrow Wilson Memorial"."
A combination of mythological constellation figures attached to the outer frame and four large bronze tortoises supporting the entire monument at its base ..
" Paul Manship intentionally integrated these specific reptilian and serpentine elements for deep symbolic and astronomical reasons: "
1. 23andMe and Genentech : The Pharmaceutical Firehose
Just as Palantir proved that large data integration could track terrorists or predict supply chain collapses, Thiel-backed biotechnology ventures realized that human DNA is the ultimate unstructured data dataset.
The intersection of the Podesta Group, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), and Genentech exposes the foundational lobbying and public relations infrastructure that turned human biological datasets into multi-billion-dollar commercial commodities."..
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was a co-creator of Google's DeepDream in 2015, serving as the second author on its launch while working as a machine learning researcher at Google Brain ..
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Christopher Olah dropped out of the University of Toronto to join the 2012 class of Thiel Fellows receiving a $100,000 grant from billionaire Peter Thiel’s foundation. "..
Anyone noticed the increasing slop on this platform?
Also..
I've been testing the LLMs .. the "hallucinations" have been increasing..
Do you understand what is happening?
Google search will shortly prioritize AI ..
If you think a human programmed AI system by a predominantly neurodivergent leader is delivering you TRUTH , I have an igloo in the desert to sell you.
As for all those in the AI industry currently working for these companies and losing their jobs..
It's like somebody is trying to tell me something. Or at least point me in a particular direction. 🤔
Sir Bradley Fried is the chairman of Goldman Sachs International. He co-founded Grovepoint Capital, prior to which he was chief executive of Investec Bank Plc, and previously served as chairman of the Court of the Bank of England and a a non-executive board member of the FCC.
In 1997 the Brunswick Group formed a joint venture with the Swiss banking giant SBC Warburg, renaming the operation Brunswick Warburg. Shortly after, SBC Warburg merged globally with Union Bank of Switzerland to form UBS, making the entity Brunswick UBS Warburg 🎶🐈⬛