MotoCzysz E1PC

Finally, an electric bike that packs some serious performance. The E1PC produces 100 hp and can top at least 140 mph. Not close to the stock Hayabusa, but still very impressive. True it broke down at the recent Isle of Man TTs, but this may well be a peek at "the motorcycle of the future". Not indications of weight and cost is astronomical at this time. Well, they are using batteries built by the same folks that build 'em for NASA. Check out related article here. My next bike?

More Google Goodies

Russ pointed out two new Google APIs which are of particular interest. The Prediction API "enables access to Google's machine learning algorithms to analyze your historic data and predict likely future outcomes". It will take your labeled data, run supervised learning algorithms, and allow you to predict. I've not looked too hard, but I don't see just which ML algorithms they are offering (Naive Bayes, SVM, KNN, etc). But how cool is this? Well, pretty cool. But, Russ also points out BigQuery by Google: "a web service that enables you to do interactive analysis of massively large datasets. Scalable and easy to use, BigQuery lets developers and businesses tap into powerful data analytics on demand". Terrabytes, billions of rows per seconds. Wow.

Also check out Lessons learned developing a practical large scale machine learning system. And the first lesson? "Keep it simple (even at the expense of a little accuracy)".

Now these, all by themselves, are a really good reason to learn Python. :-)