I dug up the actual paper (Cook, 2004) and it turns out the bicycle was symmetrical… and, in fact, entirely virtual.

It’s a plot of a computer simulation, rather than records from a real-world physical experiment.

A bicycle is composed of four rigid bodies: the two wheels, the frame, the front fork (the steering column). Each adjacent pair of parts is connected with a joint that allows rotation along a defined axis, and the wheels are connected to the ground by requiring that their lowest point must have zero height and no horizontal motion (no sliding).

So the simulation has a lot of simplifications from reality, and the picture tells us more about the simulation model than it tells us about the real world. It is a pretty picture, though.

Here’s the paper reference:

Cook, M. 2004. It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle.

(I couldn’t get it from the Cook’s Caltech site, but I found a copy elsewhere.)

Reddit never banned me, and yet here I am.

Maybe there’s something missing in your analysis?

That… doesn’t really explain anything, but good luck anyway.

What made you choose this particular community to post your story?

It sounds more like you want to create a new community on an existing instance.

Setting up a new community can be as easy as clicking the new community button and filling in the fields.

Setting up a whole instance of Lemmy (like lemmy.world, which you’re on, or aussie.zone, which I’m on) is way more involved than you’re probably thinking - buying a domain name, figuring out hosting, installing the Lemmy software, and a whole lot more.

Why would you post this article here, in this community?

Did you cross-post your blog to the wrong place?

OK, follow-up question: what does ‘lovies’ mean?

What is this and how is it relevant to the community you’re posting in?

hence the distraint

Is this a typo or a cool new word I can use?

I like using word association as a game. It’s quick to learn, doesn’t need any equipment, and it’s no problem to join or leave the table whenever you like.

Try to get from some word (eg HOME) to some other word (eg SUMMIT) taking only small, obvious steps.

Each step should make a pair of terms that “obviously” fit together. They can fit together because they sound similar (HOME -> ROAM), or they are written similarly (HOME -> HOLE), or have an obviously-related meaning (HOME -> AWAY)… anything that makes sense to the group.

You can take turns around a circle. When it’s your turn, you announce the next link. If anyone thinks the link isn’t small enough or obvious enough, they can object and you’ll need to pick a different link. Then it’s the next person’s turn.

You can play competitively if you like (the person to reach the target word wins) but it also works fine without announcing a winner.

In a technical context, yes, a GIF refers to a specific image format. However, plenty of people now use “gif” to mean any short soundless video loop, regardless of how that video is stored.

It’s silly, but I can see how it happened.

And now the cropping is fixed, so the comments deriding the cropping don’t make sense anymore.

No. Duolingo is a for-profit company.

And even if they were a non-profit org, cutting jobs isn’t a good thing. It’s sometimes an unfortunate necessity.

Yeah some of the libraries near me have a selection of video games on the shelves. At least one even has board games.

I love libraries.

Those caps are meant to affect the way you read it.

In this post, the capital letters (plus the “How To”) suggest a title, like a book or something.

Are you lost?

I can’t see why you would make this post here.

Maybe you mean one of the “ask” communities?

What does Willow (1986) have to do with data? Isn’t it, like, a sword-and-sorcery fantasy movie?

Oh I bet there’s a character with a name that sounds like the word “data”.

!science_memes@mander.xyz discussed long-term storage:

https://mander.xyz/post/26896717

(dunno if linking to a post is going to work, let’s see)

My friend had light switches that glowed with a bright blue LED glow.

I couldn’t stand it. I prefer to sleep in the actual darkness.

I don’t know how NaytaData made it, but if I were doing it, I would do something like this:

• start with a “blank” un-coloured map of coastline and country borders
• put all the “capital” cities on the map
• make a temporary grid of points over the map and find the closest city for each point
• paint the map based on those temporary grid points

I would use a computer but the same steps would work with paper & pen.