Navigating Compliance Pressures Amidst a Construction Labor Shortage

The roofing industry is still feeling the pressure of labor shortages, and at the same time, compliance requirements keep getting more complex. Safety, training, documentation, workforce verification—it’s a lot. But these aren’t necessarily separate problems. They’re connected and, if approached the right way, they can strengthen the industry instead of holding it back. For a […]

Reinforcement learning control of a biomechanical model of the upper extremity

Below, we first provide details on our biomechanical model. After discussing our general reinforcement learning approach, we focus on the individual components of our method, namely states, actions, scaling factors, rewards, and an adaptive target-selection mechanism. We also provide details on the implementation of our algorithm. Finally, we discuss the methods used for evaluation. Biomechanical […]

Eyes on the Street: Flatbush Avenue’s Dangerous Sidewalk Bike Lane

The Department of Transportation hasn’t caught on that calling a sidewalk a “bike lane” doesn’t make it so.  In Brooklyn, the most conspicuous example is on Flatbush Avenue, where such a sidewalk “lane” goes southeast from Hendrickson Place near Kings Plaza to the Belt Parkway. On this Flatbush Avenue “lane” — which connects the Brooklyn […]