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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 lit…

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…

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

Location: Sunnyvale, CA / San Francisco Bay Area Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python (Numpy, Tensorflow), Matlab, C++, OpenCV, javascript (Node, D3.js) Swift/i…

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 …

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 t…

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 dow…

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 …

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...

External debt is not the same as national debt and does not in it self say very much about the health of the public sector economy, since it includes private debt including account…

Swish is cleared by the Bankgirot system. I'm not completely sure about the technical details but there is no card involved.

Sure, Swedish cities are a little less sprawly than American cities of the same size (I have no data on this but my general experience is that both apartments and houses a slightly…

Sweden is about the same size as California but with about one third of its population (and about 2/3 of the population density of US), still it is in the top 10 internet access li…

Unless I'm missing something they are selling Europa as a VST/AU and I guess the web version is more of an interactive demo

You can have messenger.com open in a separate tab/window if you want use the chat and mobile facebook simultaneously.

Unreal Engine and Unity is going to have ARKit support. If your ambition is to make an AR app for both iOS and Android I suspect that one of those engines are better. I don't belie…

I personally prefer Stanky Bean

I would say that a lot of countries in EU are ahead of US in eliminating cash as well (wether this is good or bad can be discussed). The new EU Payment Service Directive 2 (PSD2) w…

I'm not sure the environmental impact of fishing an invasive species to extinction is positive compared to the problems the species itself causes. Especially if you want that ventu…

People in the nordic countries including Finland have more trust in government authorities and public administration compared to for example Americans. A government agency given th…

Location: Sunnyvale, CA Remote: Maybe Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Numerical stuff (Python, Matlab, C++, some HPC mostly MPI and OpenMP), Web stuff (nginx, Python (Bottle/…

It looks like a pimple. Clearly Ceres has hit puberty.

That is interesting. I thought that it was mostly and European thing. What kinds of cheese is common in Brazil?

Their main design office is in Sweden and most designers are Swedish. Sometimes they collaborate with 'star' designers and they have been accused of plagiarism quite a few times.

I have two slicers, a really good one and a bad one both from IKEA. Consistent quality is not really their thing.