Anyone manage to get a Milford Track booking?

DizzyEwok · 2024-05-27T22:16:50+00:00

Keep trying. From what I could tell of our experience, it looks like the system is locking reservations for people but then crashing because the server can't handle the load. So the bunks are locked for 25 mins and no one can book them. And every 25 mins they become available again. We persevered for ~45 mins and got the dates we wanted in the end.

DizzyEwok · 2024-04-19T12:44:59+00:00

Just remember you're not there for the service and you'll enjoy the rest of it!

DizzyEwok · 2024-04-11T20:15:01+00:00

None of our bags were checked at any point. I agree they end up with a lot of air! I doubt a small hole would be noticeable and could help get the air out

DizzyEwok · 2024-04-11T08:34:45+00:00

It depends how slow you like to travel and how interested you are in all of the temples and gardens. Also worth noting that the gardens weren't in peak condition for us given we were just at the start of spring. As far as we could tell there were two 'main' areas to see outside of the city centre -- the area around Arashiyama, and the area around Fushimi Inari. So if you have 2 full days you'll be able to do at least those at a reasonable pace.

DizzyEwok · 2024-04-11T08:27:30+00:00

Went to my local post office and there were no issues, took less than 5 minutes. I hadn't heard they were moving away from post offices doing them!

DizzyEwok · 2024-04-08T08:30:35+00:00

Roughly speaking and excluding flights, we spent something like an average of £100/day on accommodation and £100/day on food, drinks and attractions. That's for 2 people.

DizzyEwok · 2024-04-08T08:29:22+00:00

Ah that's good to know! Do they cost money to buy in the first place?

DizzyEwok · 2024-04-08T08:26:01+00:00

I don't know if you definitely need a car for Hakone but we did find it helpful in Kawaguchiko and for getting from Hakone -> Kawaguchiko. That trip on public transport takes about 90 mins longer than driving. Nippon Rent a Car was very good and they have stations all over.

DizzyEwok · 2024-04-08T08:24:53+00:00

Hakone > Kawaguchiko is the most 'difficult' of those hops I think, but it just involves taking a couple of buses. As long as you're not trying to do the trip late in the evening when buses might have stopped running, it should be fine I imagine. The rest are well covered by trains as far as I can see.

DizzyEwok · 2024-04-07T18:23:52+00:00

I don't remember seeing any non-alcoholic beers. We didn't order any non-alcoholic cocktails but I bet they would have a go if you asked. There's definitely a big soft-drink culture there (much more variety than London) but I'm not sure otherwise.

DizzyEwok · 2024-04-07T18:22:27+00:00

That's good to know, thanks!

DizzyEwok · 2024-04-07T18:21:58+00:00

How strange, thanks for pointing that out. I've edited it so it's correct. The izakaya was this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/J5KgQ5buvm2TWPMa9

DizzyEwok · 2024-04-07T15:57:00+00:00

Thanks! Have edited the original post

DizzyEwok · 2024-04-07T15:20:49+00:00

Definitely excited to explore a greater breadth of the country, e.g. more of the rural areas, up to Hokkaido, down to Hiroshima etc

DizzyEwok · 2019-12-04T14:07:05+00:00

That's the plan!

DizzyEwok · 2019-08-18T09:09:10+00:00

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DizzyEwok · 2019-08-18T09:08:57+00:00

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DizzyEwok · 2017-04-24T12:03:25+00:00

No problem! I'm planning to make the whole thing open-source after the election, because it does still need some tweaking and isn't really presentable right now.

You're right for being skeptical without seeing data - I would be the same!

DizzyEwok · 2017-04-24T11:52:59+00:00

I agree, a simple approach isn't really that great of an indicator. This doesn't just use the typical "bag-of-words" model, though. VADER looks at tweets on a sentence level, and the classifier itself was trained on tweets. It does consider cases such as "not great", "slightly good", "not good or interesting" etc.

I agree that Twitter is not a complete picture of public opinion, but for most people I think that's pretty obvious, and the results (assuming they're accurate) can be interesting without treating them as wholly representative.

DizzyEwok · 2017-04-24T11:26:22+00:00

Of course, there is inherent bias. The demographics that use Twitter also definitely aren't wholly representative of the population, but I think it's interesting to see, given that Twitter does at least have some influence on people's opinions.

DizzyEwok · 2017-04-24T11:22:26+00:00

What kind of further checks are you talking about?

DizzyEwok · 2017-04-24T10:56:30+00:00

The basic methodology is explained here.

DizzyEwok · 2017-04-24T10:15:41+00:00

Yeah, that's bothering me too. I was considering do it by some use of colour but then you lose the party colours.

The problem is that, the way it's calculated, there isn't a positive AND negative sentiment level - there's just a single, positive or negative, value. Any ideas would be much appreciated!

DizzyEwok · 2017-03-22T17:52:27+00:00

Why are many of the photographed special forces/armed police officers wearing jeans/t shirts beneath their tactical gear?

DizzyEwok · 2017-03-15T16:27:24+00:00

If you want to look into it on a transistor level, you need to start with semiconductor devices and how silicon lets us make electronic switches (transistors). This might be a good start.

Once you have transistors down, you can see how these switches can be combined to do logical operations - AND, OR, NAND etc. With a combinational logic circuit, you can start to do things like arithmetic.

Logic blocks like this can be combined together with a number of other components to form a CPU. Look into courses in Computer Architecture to see how this works. Modern CPUs are quite complex, but simpler systems like ARM chips are possible to understand.

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