this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2025

442 points (100.0% liked)

Data Is Beautiful

8776 readers

4 users here now

A place to share and discuss data visualizations. #dataviz

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

cirrokumulus@slrpnk.net

qaz@lemmy.world

442

Paths of 800 unmanned bicycles being pushed until they fall over (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml

38 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But how was the bike pushed? Was it pushed by an imperfect human, or by some sort of contraption?

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It was done inside a physics simulation.

"It Takes Two Neurons To Ride a Bicycle" | Matthew Cook

[–] ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So it's worthless? Not sure how to value virtual simulations of real world physical behaviour when it's used to show something cool.

[–] Verqix@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Only because it is simulated? Pushing the same bike 800 times with the same force mechanically and measuring it doesn't seem to me to net any more applicable knowledge.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

How do you learn something from a simulation, isn't it just a way to see if the test you design makes sense? It could go differently in the real world?