traf

/traffic /transportation /physics /math /applied

Sure, I have a huge list of To Do's.
But I guess I'll start talking about my thoughts.
And the kinds of things I like to think about.

I think about transit.
I think about how do we tell cars how much time they should be waiting under a red light,
How much time it is good for them to keep crossing an intersection (safely).

But in a complex network,
I still have to tell my host dada
That from the early days when he introduced me to the roadways around Newton and Boston,
To google, and to the efficiency that computers could yield in our lives,

It is us that ultimately dictacte what is happening around our communities and society.

For me it all starts with the basic idea of WHAT DO WE HAVE?
Much resources.

But the abundance of it does not necessarily mean that we live as we really want.
Personally, I have a lot to write about my life and all the people that has passed through my life.
Now, I need to concentrate on how to improve our lives.

To do so, I have to start with the basic understanding of what am I doing?
How can I measure the size of a building?
How can I tell my landlord and the city what is good for all of us?
Where can he cut, where he can saw, and where he should put together?

Before I reach that, I will start by saying, that recently,
one of my AirBnb guests asked me what was my favorite mode of transportation.
I started on airplanes, but ended up on a bike.

How did I go from needing Google Maps to tell me directions to one place,
To telling Google the fastest way?

By driving.
I love driving.
Fast.
Speeding.
And all that.
- be aware, it wasn't by driving alone.

To be fair, I like to test the laws of physics.
It isn't as easy as talking about masses and densities.

Configuring a roadway network so the signals transmitted yield in less traffic and more movement,
Seems to also be difficult...
Otherwise we'd have less traffic as we can experience at certain times.

So let's start by counting and trying to manage the many cars we are producing,
selling and having on roads, be it by being parked or in movement.

Alright... now you've got block lengths, and trains, and subways and crazy intersections.
Mostly with pedestrians and other users trying to share a space.
So here I can talk about one of my most interesting topics...

Dimensions.

They can be spacial, as in length x, width y, height z.
They can be timewise as in length of time.
They can be related to quality, or how much dough you invest in something.
and they can be other variables such as temperature, frequency, anything that we can measure somehow (They aren't just abstract).

Then you ask yourself, how did we learn to talk, how did we decide we would measure, what and how are we measuring...
So back in the greek days they said 'geo' 'metry' let's measure the ground....

How? By comparing distances between the shadow of something that randomnly went up,
and the distance of its crumbles... and the shadows that were around trying to do something else with their lives...
Back in the day they were called philosophers...

Finding mathematical relationships between things and between 'geometric' shapes.

From understanding the laws of gravity, we went on to discover that matter also contained smaller particles that can be understood and utilized.

So we learned to quantify static things, and then wondered, what happens overtime to these things.
How do you measure and evaluate something moving?

And likewise we went from making fire to get us warm,
To knowing how to put parts together and making engines.

So we replicate animals through the many different things we do.
Robots, cars, computers.

And we understood it in different parts, and what can we make of the future?

I don't know...
But if I was working alone, to determine all this stuff,
Without the help of Google,
How would I go about telling someone about their subway system?
About their roadways,
About their signals?

Perhaps on a bike I can get some values that can we can talk :)