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Started all 3 of my kids on a balance bike at age 2. All my kids could ride a regular bike by the time they were 3. It occurred to me that they will never r
by mmmBacon 5y ago
Started all 3 of my kids on a balance bike at age 2. All my kids could ride a regular bike by the time they were 3. It occurred to me that they will never remember not knowing how to ride a bike. Also it’s amazing to me how quickly they all learned. Conversely, I couldn’t ride a bike without training wheels until I was maybe 7 or 8.
OT, the longer I work in technology the more amazed I am at the capability of biological systems.
- eru 5y agoBiological systems can be quite capable, but they can also be remarkably badly 'designed'. They are stuck in many local optima. There's a nerve that goes up and down your neck (and the much longer neck of the giraffe), just because evolution hasn't found a way to remove its loop around your collarbone. Or: the nerves and blood vessels in your eyeball are in _front_ of the light sensors and obscure our vision. Doesn't make any sense, but there doesn't seem to be a gradual [0] way to fix that. [0] Gradual in 'gene' space, that is.