Japanese conservative monarchists are wild.

Look up the Google Maps reviews of the imperial palace. For some context, the majority of the imperial palace is completely off limits to the general public (in stark contrast to most developed countries), and the royal family does a new years greeting.

The reviews are monarchists unironically saying things like that they travelled for days, lined up for hours, caught a glimpse of one of the royal family, were temporarily transported to heaven, and will dedicate their lives hoping for the forever prosperity of the royal family.

Unfortunately I find even prompts like this insufficient for accuracy, because even when directly you directly ask them for information directly supported by sources, they are still prone to hallucination. The use of super blunt language as a result of the prompt may even further lull you into a false sense of security.

Instead, I always ask the LLM to provide a confidence score appended to all responses. Something like

For all responses, append a confidence score in percentages to denote the accuracy of the information, e.g. (CS: 80%). It is OK to be uncertain, but only if this is due to lack of and/or conflicting sources. It is UNACCEPTABLE to provide responses that are incorrect, or do not convey the uncertainty of the response.

Even then, due to how LLM training works, the LLM is still prone to just hallucinating the CS score. Still, it is a bit better than nothing.

Renaissance Technologies is arguably the world’s best hedge fund, and supposedly only uses AI based strategies.

High Flyer are the founders of DeepSeek, and are also all in on AI, though their performance is more volatile.

Pink, because then you can fold Queen Elizabeth II into a whale giving head

Non-US countries start Christmas literally the day after Halloween.

plocate is much faster and requires less resources. macOS users should use mdfind instead

Funny meme aside, it wouldn’t actually work because cremation is way too hot to pop corn. At around 1000 Celsius, the corn would instantly carbonise and turn to ash, just like the rest your body.

Even baking corn at 200 Celsius (typical oven roasting temperature) is already too hot for corn to pop, and burns it instead.

We Fact-Checked That Viral Popcorn Cremation Meme - https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/unpopped-popcorn-cremation-meme

No, because Zelda has unironically one of the worst examples of button layouts due to them being different to other games for seemingly no reason.

Why is sprint the bottom face button instead of right trigger? Why is the top face button jump?

Even basic things like running and jumping are so difficult and unintuitive. So many actions are all tied to the badly placed jump button with no prompts given, like shield surfing and triggering flurry rushes.

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Scientists too busy writing grant proposals to realise that the developers of RStudio have made Positron, which is VS Code based and generally better

“Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter” - conservatives, probably actually, in the future 2017

Supporters defend Roy Moore: “Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter” | Vox - https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/9/16630464/supporters-defend-roy-moore-mary-joseph

Israeli (derogatory)

Japanese: コンピューター (Kon pyuu taa) 🗿

Are u a top or bottom sandwich? 😳

(凸 and 凹 mean top and bottom in Chinese/Japanese)

Denatonoum Benzoate.

Intensely bitter compound used to prevent people from putting them into their mouths. Examples include nail polishes (to help nail biting habits), button cell batteries, and even Nintendo switch cartridges.

Denatonium - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatonium

Actually, the term 3rd world is outdated and referred to countries that couldn’t decide whether to align themselves with the US or Russia - oh wait

Any kind of carbon neutral scenario will almost definitely require carbon capture, simply because many processes are extremely difficult to decarbonise, e.g. heavy industry such as cement and steel manufacturing. Even beyond niche industries, fossil fuels still remain a crucial input to so many things; oil for example is required for aviation, road bitumen, and polymers in plastics, resins, and fibers.

As despicable as the petro giants are, the extremely high energy capacity of fossils fuels and their use as raw materials means that replacing entirely them with renewables is unviable for neutrality.

Israel strikes Gaza

The move away from passive voice is refreshing, even if very late

Also not as disparate as memes would have you believe, depending on how you look at it.

The Tokyo Metro Area is very dense at 38 million / 13,000km2, compared to the London Metro Area’s 15 million / 9000km2. But the density of Tokyo rapidly decreases as you go further out, even with the Metro Area.

Even agglomerating up to the entire Kanto Region only gets around 42 million / 32,000km2. London + East + South East Regions gets you 31 million / 50,000km2.

I don’t think comparing comparing Regions is very useful, but this only yields that Kanto is approximately twice as dense as London + surroundings. National level figures have Japan at 330/km2, Vs UK’s 285/km2.

A much more suitable comparison would be the central areas of Tokyo and London, which are the 9 special wards in/around the Yamanote Loop and Inner London (roughly zone 2). This is around 2.2mil / 140km2 or around 15,000/km2 for Tokyo Vs 3.4mil / 320km2 or around 11,000/km2 for London. Again, not nearly the massive discrepancy suggested by memes.

Apologies if my tone is pointed - having lived and commuted in both cities the way the internet thinks of Japan really bothers me. I do think Tokyo is worse for crowdedness, but honestly not by much, especially when London tube lines can be so long they go outside the station.

If you repeat the exercise and focus only on central areas, you will find that most major cities actually have very similar densities.

That’s entire fucking Kanto Region (32,000km2), which is even larger than the Kanto basin (17,000km2), not the Greater Tokyo Area (13,500km2).

Most of the Greater Tokyo Area is farmland already. The Kanto Region is a further agglomeration of seven prefectures.

A better comparison with the UK would be Greater Tokyo Area (13,5000km2) Vs London Metropolitan Area (9000km2, mostly limited by its greenbelt).

If you insist on comparing Regions, then the Kanto Region should be compared with London + East of England + South East, for a total of around 50,000km2 (UK keeps London as it’s own region).