ishmandoo

Thanks for these links.

I'm seeing that Pfizer and Moderna are participating in a rolling review in Europe, but I haven't yet found anything about that in the US. Is it automatically part of the Fast Track program?

What do press releases like these mean: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta... Are they announcing the _conclusion_ of the application process? It sort of presents the application as an atomic event.

Could you point me to any sort of reference on this? I'd love to update my post with this info.

Definitely agree that the vaccine development has been a huge success. Just wondering about (what appears to me to be) slack in the process that could be removed. Another commenter suggests that the drug companies and the FDA are already in close communication including trial data.

I agree

Very interesting and good to hear. So drug companies are sharing early trial data with the FDA?

Just want to say, I don't mean this as a criticism. Very interested to hear any insights on this.

I couldn't figure this out at the time, but a potential explanation seems obvious to me now.

I think this may have been because the wheel starts accelerating from a particular point. To optimize distance traveled, it's better to have more acceleration up front. Shorter spokes means more acceleration. For the overall wheel, the spoke length is normalized, but it makes sense that the optimization would set the starting spoke shorter.

I should randomize the starting angle of the wheel and see if that fixes it.

I'm surprised to see that I didn't discuss this in the blog post. You're right, I should have.

It doesn't take the vertical movement of the car into account directly, but that cosine term in the force does mean that having to raise the car (or lower the car) saps it of effective torque.

Also, the wheel spoke lengths are normalized, so the wheel can't grow or shrink overall.

I intended to extend this to non-flat surfaces, but never got around to it. Wanted to input that rolling-square cycloidish shape and see if I find a square wheel as optimal. I should give it a go.

Hey hey, this is my blog! Thanks for posting it, @sillysaurusx.

I'd love to hear your thoughts!

I'd love to hear what you think.

Let me know what you think!

Hey, that's me! Thanks for pointing it out!

Love it!

I implemented something similar in Mathematica: http://blog.benwiener.com/programming/art/2017/08/24/lewitt....

My friend implemented it in Elm: http://www.philipzucker.com/elm-eikonal-sol-lewitt/

Whoa! Hey! Ha!

Yuk, I don't know...

Wow, great work!

Let's talk about it!