That's a really good point, I hope at the very least it enables a "car -> public transport -> bikes" flow. So even if these people were taking the metro, all that extra metro space can accomodate car-owners who wish to switch.
It depends though. At least in London a lot of cycleways were made by removing bus lanes and replacing them with high quality segregated cycle lanes.
This has led to a big increase in %age terms of cyclists in London, but a fairly significant decline in bus passengers.
I think roughly 300m/yr cycle journeys were added, but bus has lost 500m pax/yr (mainly because of increased congestion making them less and less attractive). Note this isn't all down to bus lane removal, but it's a significant part of it.
I live in the Netherlands where the weather is arguably tougher than in Paris (rain, cold and wind for large portion of the year) yet everyone bikes year in year out.
And not just young active people, it's a habit found across all age groups, parents bike their children to school (or with them if old enough, etc.)
All that to say I wouldn't worry too much about the feasibility issue, it's really more of a mindset to adopt, and it's happening more and more in France.
Paris has one thing that Amsterdam does not that makes cycling more challenging: elevation. (Ok, Amsterdam has bridges but those are for the most part really short and momentum is enough to carry you across).
I cycled to work every day in Southern Germany, which had even more elevation, it was not a huge problem, you get fit enough in now time. Older people just use e-bikes.
Bicycles have had gears for almost a century, and they allow to tackle hilly areas easily. Also, the Netherlands is notoriously windy, and a headwind is just as difficult as a hill.
No, what makes the Netherlands different is their street design prioritizing safety rather than speed at all costs. When the streets feel safe from speeding drivers, more people choose to ride a bike.
Not at all. I simply suspect that you are uninformed about why cycling is popular in the Netherlands. In the 60s the Netherlands was just as flat as it is today, but it wasn't a cycling paradise. It all changed with the campaign "Stop de Kindermoord" (literally translated as "Stop the Child Murder"), which began in 1972.
Considering I'm not Dutch, you may feel reassured there is no superiority feeling at play here.
I agree with another commenter that while flat, the Netherlands have their own hurdles (biking with a strong headwind on the banks of the IJ is not easy, even if flat), and I definitely agree that their city design is what makes this unique.
I lived in various parts of France growing up, and I can assure you there are flat cities there, yet biking in them felt very risky at best.
The same reason people generally don't regret having kids even though the commitment and overall change of your life are much greater than what you described for dogs.
They are objectively similar in that both are a big multi-decade commitment to a living being that you chose for yourself (yes, you did choose to have the kid unless you live in a country with no birth control access) but saying something is similar is still not making a value comparison
Yeah of course you can choose the level of evaluating how things are similar. Yes they both breathe. Yes they have DNA. Both are objectively true.
Also, you keep saying value comparison like it's something I used against OP. I never mentioned anything about dog <=> child, nor did OP. I just meant that the core decision of having either is different, so it's not comparable even though you could boil it down to "you care for both".
It's definitely quite impressive. You can still really tell that each shot is jarringly different from the previous one. Already in the building it felt like the "background" always changes. It was even more jarring in the car section as the terrain just randomly changes in weird ways. But I guess it makes sense.
Also, I don't know if it was supposed to be a covert ad for the cybertruck, but it reminded how ugly this car is.
Not my product, but I agree it’s confusing. I assume that, like Ollama, it started out with support for one family of models, and then expanded scope and outgrew its name.
This looks wonderful, I've dreamt of something like this back when I was in academia!
You mention some advanced stuff like abstract index notation which is usually the hardest part to get right with things like simpy and even mathematica, how does your package handle simplifications of complex tensor expressions (GR, hydrodynamics, etc.)?
You can specify symmetry/antisymmetry patterns for tensor index slots and it takes advantage of that to speed up the calculations. This part was pretty important for me so i spent some time thinking about it. I wanted to try to put xACT’s patterns in but it would have been quite the undertaking.
> While LLMs have massive valuations right now. Pretty sure the public has spoken when it comes to the differences you fail to illustrate actually mattering.
Are you seriously using market valuation as an indicator of worth?
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