transportguy

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Astronomy books used to push diplomacy(twitter.com)
8 points by transportguy 3y ago|1 comments
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What the world has missed by forgetting Riccioli(cricetuscricetus.co.uk)
11 points by transportguy 3y ago|0 comments
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by transportguy 3y ago
I guess this highlights the ability in a variety of viewsets to step back and apply a more 'meta' approach to a criticism.
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Early Modern critics of Astrology were accused of having bad natal star charts(twitter.com)
12 points by transportguy 3y ago|3 comments
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by transportguy 3y ago
The trial was more to do with precedence and academics though. Galileo was only punished in the 2nd trial because he had broken an order given to him in the first trial. The corrections and withdrawals of work were the right of the Roman In
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Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler all lacked proof(cricetuscricetus.co.uk)
53 points by transportguy 3y ago|35 comments
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by transportguy 4y ago
Both motorists and cyclists benefit from cycle lanes... but it's also a huge job to bring them to the road network.
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London Is for Cyclists(cricetuscricetus.co.uk)
6 points by transportguy 4y ago|3 comments
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by transportguy 4y ago
You're missing the point. The 20mph rules in London have been applied to all arterial and collector roads, not just residential roads.
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by transportguy 4y ago
Most drivers ignore them, but it only takes 1 driver going at the 20mph limit in a bottleneck to slow down a whole column of traffic. So both are true.
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by transportguy 4y ago
All of the things you mentioned are the points!
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London's 20mph speed limits mapped(cricetuscricetus.co.uk)
6 points by transportguy 4y ago|6 comments
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by transportguy 4y ago
Awesome! I'd love to see them - send me some screenshots :) https://twitter.com/MichalYouDoing
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by transportguy 4y ago
I wrote this up quickly after one of the HN readers here asked for a visualisation after my first article: https://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk/blog/busdistributions/in...
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London Underground journey elevation map(michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk)
4 points by transportguy 4y ago|0 comments
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A city map of bus and train stations(cricetuscricetus.co.uk)
31 points by transportguy 4y ago|13 comments
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by transportguy 4y ago
London has Dial-a-ride for people with impairments which provides a door-to-door journey https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/dial-a-ride/ But of course, a lot of people don't qualify, and others don't want to use a
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Analysis of distances between London's bus stops(michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk)
46 points by transportguy 4y ago|52 comments
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by transportguy 4y ago
It could definitely be checked... the MTA has an API https://new.mta.info/developers
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How well do London buses match their timetables?(michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk)
9 points by transportguy 4y ago|3 comments
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Are road speed limits based on safety?(cricetuscricetus.co.uk)
19 points by transportguy 4y ago|23 comments
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The London Underground's Hidden Dungeons (2017)(michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk)
4 points by transportguy 4y ago|0 comments
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by transportguy 4y ago
In London, both roads and buses are subsidised from the income of the tube lines.
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by transportguy 5y ago
Ensembles aren't used much outside of competition or serious industry... windy/predictwind/CMAP have usually more than enough weather for the average boater
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by transportguy 5y ago
yes, but it takes at least a degree to even understand the basics
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by transportguy 5y ago
There are already games that use live wind data (see e.g. virtual regatta). They source data directly from NOAA/GFS rather than from an aggregator like windy
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by transportguy 5y ago
GFS takes a simple average of the ensembles for their avg model, I believe. The biggest problem is that you can't use statistics like you normally would in meteorology. Predictions are actually very good for knowing WHAT happens to a w
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by transportguy 5y ago
depends what you mean by 'rolling your own weather forecast'. If by that you mean you're going to do some statistical modelling on ensemble data, you're going to get a much better idea of what is likely to happen than yo
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by transportguy 5y ago
the drawing of orion is unimpressive, as it is easily visible and drawable to a similar quality with any telescope or even binoculars if you have clear skies. Spotting any sort of features on mars requires huge magnification incredible stea
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by transportguy 5y ago
no, it would only mean less deaths per million miles driven if those worse than self driving cars switch to it. If the best drivers switch to self driving cars, there will be more deaths per million miles. Duh

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