Copenhagen is estimating a $1-2 million gain every day — that’s right, EVERY DAY — when people in the city ride bicycles instead of drive cars. Since the biggest friction to cycling is the fact that cars kill those around them either immediately (crash) or slow and painfully (disease), a great deal of money and … Continue reading Transit Management Leaders: Copenhagen Bans Cars; Sweden Halves Pedestrian Deaths
Well I have to say I was wrong twelve years ago about diesel motorcycles. No matter how patient I was for those Kawasaki to arrive, in the back of my head it was clear that hackers around me loved the zero-power-curve of electric bikes more than the long-distance of diesel. At one point many years … Continue reading Harley-Davidson Moves Research to Northern California
This should be obvious to anyone who rides a bicycle in a city. Alas we also have studies to prove it true, year after year: Since the event began in 2009, one mode has ruled supreme in terms of speed. “People on bikes have beaten their car-driving counterparts more than two-thirds of the time,” Jane … Continue reading Cyclists Defeat Cars in Urban Speed Challenge
The key to unlocking the power of a self-organizing map seems to be in this phrase by Diego Vicente: …instead of a grid we declare a circular array of neurons, each node will only be conscious of the neurons in front of and behind it… He offers the example of Uruguay In other words, each … Continue reading Are Self-Organizing Maps Just an Exercise in Relativism?