I kept thinking about motorcycles while reading this. If you've ever ridden one, when they're moving slowly you're very very aware of the 'old school' machinic nature of clumsy state to state transitions. Release the clutch too fast it stalls, kaput. Lose footing it falls over, kaput. Even backing up, adjusting the handlebars, moving forward, is like slow motion Boogaloo with the always present _weight_ of the thing that to this day makes me cautious.
The parking lot and low speed moves on a bike are where I feel the most aware of 'the machine' and it's seemingly inorganic peculiarities. I assume—for my own financial and physical safety—it is limited, mechanical, and only capable of very specific movements or it breaks or doesn't do what I want. Turning a bike around in a driveway is like doing the robot on a 2D plane.
"Speed stabilizes the vehicle."
Once you're moving though, talk about machines that flow. All of the things that felt jarring, careful, or clumsy now just flow. Once velocity removes the issue of balance you feel nimble and fused to the bike.
It being an "all 4 limb" experience helps I suppose. It is still humanistic but not like driving a car. It's less like it is made for you to get in and more to augment you—especially certain types. A bike can handle more of those motion profiles or velocity curves. You look at a 30mph flagged windy road and you want to hit it at 50, 60.
Now I am not saying they're anywhere near hyperorganic. The main design has barely changed in a century. It is just the experience of getting on one, getting through the low speed stuff—in my case to get out of stoplight territory—and finally flowing feels like a reminder of the direction of progress.
do you have any examples of motion grammars (that a human can understand) of "It takes machine learning to discover and grammatize higher-order motion primitives that exploit the full mobility envelope of a given machine."
a cool and fun read. i was looking for something drier maybe. like an actual grammar - so i can see a weird alien language structure and not just its outcome as can-can flip-flops
I kept thinking about motorcycles while reading this. If you've ever ridden one, when they're moving slowly you're very very aware of the 'old school' machinic nature of clumsy state to state transitions. Release the clutch too fast it stalls, kaput. Lose footing it falls over, kaput. Even backing up, adjusting the handlebars, moving forward, is like slow motion Boogaloo with the always present _weight_ of the thing that to this day makes me cautious.
The parking lot and low speed moves on a bike are where I feel the most aware of 'the machine' and it's seemingly inorganic peculiarities. I assume—for my own financial and physical safety—it is limited, mechanical, and only capable of very specific movements or it breaks or doesn't do what I want. Turning a bike around in a driveway is like doing the robot on a 2D plane.
"Speed stabilizes the vehicle."
Once you're moving though, talk about machines that flow. All of the things that felt jarring, careful, or clumsy now just flow. Once velocity removes the issue of balance you feel nimble and fused to the bike.
It being an "all 4 limb" experience helps I suppose. It is still humanistic but not like driving a car. It's less like it is made for you to get in and more to augment you—especially certain types. A bike can handle more of those motion profiles or velocity curves. You look at a 30mph flagged windy road and you want to hit it at 50, 60.
Now I am not saying they're anywhere near hyperorganic. The main design has barely changed in a century. It is just the experience of getting on one, getting through the low speed stuff—in my case to get out of stoplight territory—and finally flowing feels like a reminder of the direction of progress.
do you have any examples of motion grammars (that a human can understand) of "It takes machine learning to discover and grammatize higher-order motion primitives that exploit the full mobility envelope of a given machine."
Here are some https://www.aiweirdness.com/when-algorithms-surprise-us-18-04-13/
a cool and fun read. i was looking for something drier maybe. like an actual grammar - so i can see a weird alien language structure and not just its outcome as can-can flip-flops
We humans cannot understand these lofty grammars 💀
enhance me!