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by benrbray 7y ago
> People parade around mass transit like it's the end all be all of great things we can do, and being a liberal around most things, I wish that was true. But even the stories about Japan's awesome mass transit make me cringe; s
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Living in/around Tokyo, I had the exact opposite experience. Cars, trains, pedestrians, and bicyclists are in near-perfect balance. For the most part, people live within walking or biking distance of a train station that takes them to
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America is certainly decades (if not centuries) behind in public transportation. However, these CityLab articles are doing a great thing by highlighting our unhealthy dependence on cars and making it a part of everyday conversation. If we
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And at this stage, at least in the context of cities, cars begin to make very little sense compared to tried and true alternatives like trains and subways. Combined with people-first city planning, there really is no need for so many cars
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A mathematician once gave me a convincing argument for dividing by n+1 instead, but I have since forgotten his reason.
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by benrbray 7y ago
I really recommend Tim Roughgarden's notes for understanding duality! * L7 (Intro): http://timroughgarden.org/w16/l/l7.pdf * L8 (Duality I): http://timroughgarden.org/w16/l/l8.pdf *
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I find the lack of pictures and/or equations in this article disappointing. There are much better explanations out there. Linear programming didn't really "click" for me until I read Tim Roughgarden's notes: * L7 (
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I too have noticed that I rapidly forget experiences I had even just a few days ago. Personally, I only have maybe one or two dreams per year (that I can remember). I have a hunch that a lot of my own memory issues are related to lack of q
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"When Jenner won the 1976 men's decathalon, she was ecstatic."
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Researchers have much better graphics tools available to them today than they did in the N64 era. Basic familiarity with e.g. Unity would be enough to run these sorts of simulations.
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Until my city installs a sufficient number of separated bike lanes, I'll continue to ride on the sidewalk rather than risk my life in traffic, even if it hurts your feelings.
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Bicycle infrastructure would be a comparatively cheap solution to this problem for most people.
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Sure, but that ignores other factors like safety, infrastructure, and winning over public opinion. In my opinion, there's also the question of whether we really want to further cement America's dependence on cars. We could be inv
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I can relate to this. I started cooking as a way to cope with the stress of grad school. It's a sense of instant gratification I don't get from research, and it really scratches the itch to make something with my own two hands.
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The hiragana writing system for Japanese has a similar history of use by only women, except that it became an integral part of the language! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana
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Maybe this is true, but for newer cars, installing third party parts or even having the car looked at by a third party will void the warranty. So at least during this early period, the incentives are such that you're better off taking
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You just suggested a way that manufacturers can make it easier for consumers to recycle, did you not? You seem to be confirming the OP's point, which is that the current state of recycling is rage-inducing.
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Not just Europe! Tokyo, for example, is a remarkably pedestrian and bicycle-friendly city, despite also supporting quite heavy traffic in some areas. And of course, the extensive train network completely eliminates the need for a car in d
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I think there's something missing from the equation and I'm not sure what. In Tokyo, for example, I'm astonished by the amount of cheap, fresh food is available at grocery and convenience stores. Certain items (like importe
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This was published at the 2019 Conference on Applied Category Theory (ACT). You might find the other accepted papers interesting: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ACT2019/
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Also briefly discussed on a recent episode of 99% invisible: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-on-sand/
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Woah, I never thought about that. Do you know where I might be able to read more about copyrights / patent enforcement (or lack thereof) during wartime?
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I think you have a valid point--new technology like roads and cars will always come with some risk. Whether or not we use the technology depends on how comfortable we are with the risk. However, I think there is a lot of evidence (includin
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I only skimmed this, so perhaps there is more to this than meets the eye. But after reading I'm left with the question: Why does this need to be "neural"? Given that there is a history of using classical NLP methods for seq
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If deodorant stains are the sole reason for discarding clothing, have you tried looking for deodorant that doesn't stain? Switching brands might help.
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Regarding your second point--I don't believe that e.g. Japanese cultural references can be replaced with something that has the "same meaning" to Western audiences. If I don't understand a reference, I try to look it up
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Hm, I get a different impression from the article. In both examples the author gave, I preferred the "improved" translation over the author's translation! And these were his hand-picked examples! Needless to say, I'm
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Another controversial translation is the English localization of the "Ghost Stories" anime [1], which the authors were desperate to sell to Western audiences despite flopping in Japan. The show is full of hard-to-translate cultur
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Great article. I don't agree with the choices made by the translator (I think any attempt to "satisfy the marketplace" will always corrupt a translation), but I admire the enormous effort spent researching for his translatio
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I'm an American and it's dawned on me recently how absolutely bonkers it is that we see housing--a basic human need--as something to make a profit from. Foreign-owned houses/land left vacant for most of the year is definitel

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