Tag: Road

On The Road to Being a Better Developer

Everyone wants to be good in what he’s doing — that’s human nature, that’s how we’re raised. The key is constant improvement without being disappointed by small failures and bumps on the way. In the last 10 years, I’ve been working as a developer and I feel I&rsqu...

The Road To Acurast Mainnet

The Three Acurast Networks The Acurast protocol exists in three distinct networks supported by the Acurast Association, each with an individual token: Acurast Testnet: The test network uses tokens with no governance and no staking utility. The service level provided is for test applica...

Road Less Traveled

What strikes me in these lines is the power of choice and how opting against the expected can lead to greatness. Like life, making art is often about making decisions and I have found that forging my own path, finding new ways of examining the obvious, has been crucial. So much of architecture is...

2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY RECAP, MARKET ANALYSIS & THE ROAD AHEAD.

As we commemorate our 2 year Anniversary, it’s time for a full recap of our journey. It’s been two long and challenging years for us all in this space, but we still vividly remember and carry with us the enthusiasm we felt as we introduced STREETH to the world. ◾️️ A Beginn...

An Un-ball-ievably Trolly Game: Road to Ballhalla

Ball-rolling games have been around for quite some time. Marble Madness was released in 1984 and the first spring-launched pinball machine was built as far back as the 1700s. Enter Road to Ballhalla, a new contender in the arena of ball-rolling fun. If you like marble rol...

The Truth About the Proposed East Boston Haul Road

The haul road proposal in East Boston is an airport trucking expansion proposal which will add truck traffic, congestion, and pollution, and reduce public safety. Bigger warehouses and more truck access equals more trucks and more pollution. by Chris Marchi, AIR, Inc. Airport Impact Relief, In...

India — On The Road to Dungarpur

Leaving the city of New Delhi, we began to travel north on highway NH 8 which which would take us to Dungarpur. The highway was better than many of the highways at home in Canada. The pavement unbroken and the lines were bright. It was obvious the highway had just recently been refinished. Trees,...

Delhi to Goa road trip: 4 days, 2100 kms and 6 states

Planning my first long road trip from Delhi to Goa and except for a few older articles, a 2019 Medium article and a 2016 website blog, there was not much to rely on. The trip was in the last week of June 2023, amid heavy monsoon warnings across most of western and northern India. U...

Dubai’s Cutting-Edge Solution: AI and Lasers Detect Road Defects

Dubai is preparing to implement a game-changing combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and laser scanning to discover and remedy road faults in a daring move toward safer and more effective road infrastructure. Cities all around the world have been plagued by potholes and other road proble...

7 Road Trips to Take This Winter

Turns out that Half Dome isn’t the only reason crowds flock to Yosemite — people have been coming here to ice-skate since the 1930s. From mid-November until early March, head to the Curry Village Ice Rink in Yosemite Valley for ice-skating with some pretty epic views of Half Dome and Gla...

Once-in-a-year ride in Yosemite on Tioga Pass Road

Yosemite has always held a special place in my heart. From the mammoth granite peaks to the crystal clear alpine lakes, from the beautiful wildlife to the giant sequoia trees, from the starry nights to spectacular sunsets, each time I visit the park, it captivates me in a new way. In the past, I ...

Hello from the Net Road

The assorted succulents above, pictured foregrounding a typical summer afternoon Taipei rainshower, have a story. The story is that they were neglected in the teachers’ office, but then a UV lamp was going to be used to disinfect the teachers’ office and that anything living needed to be...

Weston Road Flows

Close enough to the city of Niagara Falls, this trip could include sites seeing in both Toronto city and Niagara Falls. Not only had Niagara Falls been on my bucket list for years but I’ve been listening about Toronto through Drake’s music since early high school. I looked into the ...

Chapter 10: The day we hit the road

Our house is never cleaner than when we’re about to go away. In our dash to get out the door, T wonders out aloud whether it’s really worth washing the floor. “It’s disgusting,” I reply. “There’s Weetbix crusted on to it.” Everyone knows Weetbix is ...

The Lonely Road to Sanity

I’ve had a thought banging around in my head for a long time that goes like this: Radicals are right about everything except being radical. What I mean by that is that the people most strongly critiquing our social, political and economic systems are correct in their critiques. We are ...

Zion Canyon: A must Visit for Any Southwest Road Trip

The southwestern United States is home to some of the planet’s most stunning and awe-inspiring spring landscapes. It is known worldwide for its famous canyons (The Grand Canyon, for example,) spectacular sandstone valleys, unique rock formations, and desert sunsets right out of a Western film....

The Salt Road — Nearly Forgotten Trade Route Between Itoigawa and Matsumoto

For centuries, obtaining salt in the landlocked domain of Shinshu, present-day Nagano Prefecture, was a challenging task. Porters would undertake a perilous journey along a rough trail, braving steep slopes to transport salt and other goods from the Sea of Japan. This trail came to be known as The S...

An odd road

Roads are convenient things, often providing easy access to the playgrounds of trampers. That being said, ‘road-walking’ is often something thought to be best avoided if at all possible. A trip down Odlins Road (aka Waiotauru Rd) presents a unique exception to this rule. When I was tr...

Hiking the Tokaido Road, Part 9 — Hakone Yumoto to Lake Ashi

This part of the route I both looked forward to the most and dreaded. Why? Today will be the first day that I walk through wilderness, and on an ancient stone-paved road. The dread? 2560 feet (780 meters) of vertical ascent. Let’s get into the story… Quite a few people have emailed m...

Detailed Road Imagery and Map Data for Real Estate Valuations and Analysis

For decades, real estate investors have relied on traditional methods of gaining a comprehensive picture of a given property’s condition and its surrounding environment. These methods, while useful, are no longer enough for professionals to stay ahead in an increasingly data-driven market. The...

Opting Out of RV Life: Why I Prefer My Own Road

“I’m recently retired and kept up our travel life-style,” I told a recent acquaintance. “Oh, what kind of RV do you own?” is the question they asked, assuming all retirees travel by RV. “I don’t travel in one,” I replied. “Well, how do...

The Zen Story of the Two Monks and a Woman (aka The Muddy Road)

This inspirational story about the power of letting go of the toxic things and people that weigh us down is shared through the story of two monks and a woman. This zen story about letting go is also known as The Muddy Road. A few days ago, I realized that I often use stories, analogies, and parab...

The Road Titans

Staking Boost Road Titans come in four tiers, each offering a unique percentage boost to your stake in one of our Staking dApp vaults. This applies to unboosted tokens, ensuring you get the most out of your staked assets. With the ability to stake up to 1 Road Titan and 1 Foun...

AI-Powered Autonomous Vehicles: The Road Ahead

Self-driving cars were once a far-fetched fantasy confined to the realm of science fiction. Yet today, artificial intelligence (AI) is steering autonomous vehicles closer to mainstream adoption. Major players like Tesla and Waymo are racing down the highway of innovation, fueled by AI and machine le...

Coding the Road Ahead: Self-Driving Cars with JavaScript and AI

In the world of self-driving cars, JavaScript takes on a crucial role as the guide, telling the car how to move and what decisions to make. Imagine it as the brain behind the wheel, using simple instructions to steer, accelerate, and make choices. Just like we follow a map while driving, JavaScript ...

Self-Driving Cars: The Road Ahead

Self-driving cars represent a huge advancement, promising improved safety and ease. Yet as artificial intelligence, they also raise complex moral questions programmers must tackle before widespread use. Dilemmas of ethics and bias in AI become evident. The classic “trolley problem” th...

Advancing Road Safety: Innovations in Machine Learning at ConscientiousCars

The provided code snippet is designed to visualize images from a dataset. The function `plot_one_image(data, labels, index)` is used to display an individual image specified by the `index` parameter. The loops `for i in range(0, 5)` and `for i in range(600, 605)` call this function to display the fi...

Road Lane Detection using OpenCV (Hough Lines Transform Explained)

In one of my previous articles, I mentioned we built a meal delivery robot for our capstone project integrating some simple OpenCV and OCR tricks to enable the robot to detect patients. Its navigation depended entirely on the infrared sensors guiding its path forward. This week, I tried to implement...

Visual Perception for Self-Driving Cars! Part4: Road Segmentation

Segmentation is the task of clustering elements of an image corresponding to the same object class. It is also known as pixel-level classification. It entails partitioning images (or video frames) into multiple segments of objects. Depending on the classification nature, image segmentation is d...

Instance segmentation of objects with lane detection on road.

Instance segmentation is extensively found in applications of medical imaging, object detection and many computer vision applications. One such application is this project where vehicles or different object surrounding the car are detected and identified which belong to a particular class. This p...

Sustainable Road Freight Means Batteries & Wires, Not Hydrogen

In December of 2022, the UK-based Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (SRF) had its ninth-annual international conference. Reading that, it doesn’t sound like a promising start to an engaging article. But it actually is because of what it clearly shows, I promise. What’...

The Incredible Australian Road Trains

Watch yourself if you see these trucks coming down the road. The Australian road trains are the world’s longest truck and trailer configurations. These massive machines haul freight in the Australia Outback and are relied upon to supply the remote Outback towns. There are many configuration...

The Forecast for the Trucking Industry on the Road Ahead

The use of apprentice programs like what US Special Delivery implements to get fresh blood into the industry by offering on-the-job training. The federal agencies and Advocate for Congress are looking to get young blood into the industry (18 to 21 years old) because nearly a third of the truck drive...

Truck drivers: life of a road hero

Have you ever wondered how is the life of a truck driver? Maybe you are considering this career path or maybe you are just curious about the profession, in this article we will explore the main aspects of the life of a truck driver. Living ‘on the road’ is a dream and a lifestyle that...

PREVENTING FALLS FROM ROAD TANKERS

In relation to tanker loading the easiest and most practical way to load liquids and powders into a road or rail tanker or an ISO container is to fill them from the top (top loading). By its very nature this requires the operator to work at height, to access the man-way lid or fill point, to manoeuv...

The Red Road

I recently re-traveled the back roads of William Least Heat-Moon’s 1978 travel account, Blue Highways. I read the book when it was released, but this time I listened to the audiobook which is how I prefer to experience books when I am on the road or walking my own backroads and woods. ...

The Bravest Road: Why BIPOC/IBPOC is essential to understanding Canada’s racial history

In a Globe and Mail op-ed published on May 28, University of Toronto professor and Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation (PETF) fellow, Joseph Heath, questioned the relevance of the acronym, BIPOC(for Black, Indigenous and People of Colour), for Canada. As current and former PETF scholars...

The Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System

The Qhapaq Ñan, often referred to as the Great Inca Road, was a sophisticated transportation network, primarily built by the Inca Empire. Stretching over 30,000 kilometres, it traversed many kinds of terrain, from the snow-capped Andes to the dense Amazon rainforests. The ingenuity of I...

What Makes Some People Take the Road of Estrangement?

An adult child cuts all ties from their parents — choosing to disconnect from what they believe is an unmanageable relationship. This is Estrangement, and it’s becoming progressively common in the last few years. It is painful and only talked about behind closed doors. This occu...

Allbirds, The Eco-Friendly Sneaker has a Tough Road to Revival

In its earlier years before going public, Allbirds, the New Zealand and American company, was a remarkable direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand, renowned for its eco-friendly wool sneakers. Allbirds became known to the world in 2014 after introducing and selling its wool sneaker on Kickstarter, a crowdfun...

Welcome to Bones Road

Ageless Beauty Products for the Aged Questions? Reach out to Bones Road Customer Service — We’re here for you 24/7, girl! Even though you are no longer a girl and haven’t been in decades! Hi Bones Road! I purchased your FAB FIFTY starter kit which was recommended by your Ag...

The Road to Mandarin

Anyone learning Mandarin as a non-native will probably, at some stage of their learning journey, curse at how much of a pain it is. Whether you’re struggling with the tones, the pinyins, or the characters, you’re almost assured that it requires some hair-pulling moments. I though...