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Yes, it was pretty much a reverse bike with the saddle on the frame and a handle bar just behind where the seat post should be, connected to the steering axle. The details is a little bit fuzzy since it was a couple of years ago but iirc it is actually possible bike backwards at slow speeds but require a lot more active balancing from the rider, and at some point it becomes impossible as the speed increases. Also it concerned the case where the bike is riding straight ahead, it is possible that it is easier to control if riding in a curve.

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When I took control theory at university, in the last lecture, the lecturer took out a bike with rear wheel steering and challenged us to ride it in the hallway outside the lecture hall in the break. No one could get it to roll more than a couple of meters. The second half of the lecture was spent proving that a rear wheel steered bike is in fact (almost) impossible to control.

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6 tahun yang laludiscuss

This is a very good explanation of the how and why of the Swedish strategy https://bppblog.com/2020/04/23/the-swedish-exception/

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7 tahun yang laludiscuss

Location: Sunnyvale, CA / San Francisco Bay Area

Remote: Yes

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Technologies: Python (Numpy, Tensorflow), Matlab, C++, OpenCV, javascript (Node, D3.js) Swift/ios

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Looking for part-time or consulting position. I have a background in applied mathematics and I'm interested in working with optimization, machine learning, computer vision, data visualization and similar things.

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7 tahun yang laludiscuss

I don't think it is ok for any entity to make notes of when you buy condoms and then spend the night at an adress you don't live on and infer whatever it infers from that and then sell this information to any other entity to do whatever it pleases with marketing or otherwise. Even if I make more money than the X% who still have a worse material standard today than the median East Berliner.

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1. Pretend it is the 1970s in East Berlin and someone follows you around, noting down every interaction you have with other humans and every bit of media you consume and collects this information in a file somewhere for future use. This is the horrifying and oppressive surveillance machine of a paranoid dictatorship.

2. Use a computer to the the exact thing automatically today. This is just the natural state of the world, nothing to do anything about it, move along.

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7 tahun yang laludiscuss

If you're interested in algorithmic drawing, https://turtletoy.net is a nice little toy to play around in and it uses the same primitive operations as most plotters (pen up and down, move to coordinate). One popular plotter is AxiDraw which can be controlled in a multitude of ways including an Inkscape plugin and a REST-API.

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This is made by a Swedish adver^H^H^H^H^H creative communications agency called ODD Company (https://oddcompany.se) who makes these kind viralbait product campaigns. Not sure if it is made for another client or just as a way to get som press for themselves but they mention Swedish payment solution provider Klarna a couple of times.

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7 tahun yang laludiscuss

I would eye through some of his speeches. A couple of english translations can be found here http://web.archive.org/web/20180524035711/http://www.olofpal...

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