yutopia

8 ms·

1.
by yutopia 6y ago
This is super interesting: http://en.ritsumei.ac.jp/news/detail/?id=278 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0034... Apparently he showed his "rotating snake&quot
2.
by yutopia 6y ago
Not quite sure what you’re getting at, I never said there were no differences between cultures. However the differences are often overstated, and with regards to Japanese culture some people seem to harbor strange preconceptions that make t
3.
by yutopia 6y ago
If we set aside superficial differences such as language and mannerisms, I never thought we're all that different from Americans, Germans, etc. — we're just humans living in the same modern, capitalistic world. Maybe we were dif
4.
by yutopia 6y ago
Yes! Just checked, and the most popular model on kakaku.com (Japanese price comparison site) right now is around $300. Ours was around $400, maybe not the best but we're pretty satisfied with it.
5.
by yutopia 6y ago
"Fuzzy" rice cookers have been around for decades, I (and my parents, and pretty much everyone I know) have always regarded it as a marketing slogan. That's not to say high-end rice cookers aren't worth it, there's
6.
by yutopia 6y ago
A rather vague post. > meritocracies work so well … because they produce peak performance Does the author have any evidence for this? Supposing that this is true, does meritocracy continue to produce optimal performance in the long run?
7.
by yutopia 6y ago
Huh the author claims low density living is more sustainable, but I don’t see how that’s supported by the underlying paper (Lenzen et al. 2004). It presents some interesting (albeit unsurprising) findings, e.g., energy use positively correl
8.
by yutopia 6y ago
Fugu is good! Eating them as a show of bravado is a tourist thing I think (probably inspired by articles like these), here we eat them because we think they’re good. They’re in season now if you happen to be in Japan. It’s no different from
9.
by yutopia 6y ago
Wow this looks promising, wonder if the technique can be used to cheaply prototype optics. Stratasys has VeroClear but material properties aren’t ideal (e.g., lack of heat resistance), and injection molding is rather expensive for making a
10.
by yutopia 6y ago
Thanks, so Finnegans Wake is considered a modernist novel? Interesting. Totally out of my depth here but it seems so much at odds with modernist ideas in other artistic disciplines, e.g., architecture.
11.
by yutopia 6y ago
So Wells = modernist and Joyce = (early) postmodernist? This all looks familiar and relevant to our times, the struggle between one who believes in a shared reality and possibility of progress, and the other whose MO is to persistently chal
12.
by yutopia 6y ago
So you say it wasn’t a joke, you wrote the original comment in Japanese because it was your sincere opinion and you wanted the researchers to understand. Not sure I follow. If that were the case you should have written in English, obviously
13.
by yutopia 6y ago
There was an opinion piece on PNAS a few years ago that argued just that, no hard evidence though: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/34/9384
14.
by yutopia 6y ago
I think the general trend of researchers becoming more media-savvy is great. But I also get the sense that researchers are increasingly choosing to work on Twitter-friendly topics (e.g., sensational, visually striking, reducible to sound
15.
by yutopia 6y ago
My guess is that it’s an inside joke of some kind, targeted at English speakers with some knowledge of Japanese. When I was a kid my classmates would often ask me to teach them dirty English slangs, which they’ll say out loud in front of te
16.
by yutopia 6y ago
Terrible grammar, but probably means something like the following: "These guys were desperate to find hot white girlfriends, but nobody would date them so they resorted to writing this lewd software. I'd advise them to work on som
17.
by yutopia 6y ago
Not really, I’m not cooking anything remotely fancy and we have all sorts of technology to help us nowadays. For example, cooking rice is simply a matter of putting rice and water into the cooker and pressing a button [1]. In the past we ne
18.
by yutopia 6y ago
That's a good point, I cook my rice with all kinds of millet, barley, and seeds mixed in. My grandparents would probably think that's backwards, why would I eat barley when I could afford white rice. But it's supposedly healt
19.
by yutopia 6y ago
After years of experimentation, lately I’ve decided that eating like my grandparents (i.e., eating like a traditional Japanese) is the easiest way to keep myself lean and healthy. Traditional Japanese meals follow a standard format [1]: a b
20.
by yutopia 6y ago
Academia has become tremendously cutthroat but it still operates under the assumption that everyone acts honorably. Perhaps that’s no longer sustainable, but what is the solution? Many of the problems with modern-day academic research can b
21.
by yutopia 6y ago
Huh I admit my impressions may not reflect the current state of things.
22.
by yutopia 6y ago
Knowing the state of English education here I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if the story was true, especially seeing how the original blog post was written by a tutor in (rather rural) Fukui. I’ve never experienced anything like this mysel
23.
by yutopia 6y ago
I agree with the overall point that design is about more than looks, but my impression is that design as practiced by the IDEO / Stanford d.school / design thinking crowd is a quite different beast from what’s being taught inside
24.
by yutopia 6y ago
A Japanese tweet/blog aiming to stir up outrage among the “concerned” Japanese public, being taken up by an English-language website for their latest “weird Japan” article. Being Japanese myself I can share countless horror stories abo
25.
by yutopia 6y ago
Completely agree, it's quite shocking that powerpoint still remains the de facto standard of business communication after all these years. I'd been hoping for better presentation tools to emerge, but it seems instead we've du