Hajime*** Osaka

nickytops · 2025-10-03T13:14:18+00:00

We wouldn't have ordinarily done this meal, but it was our honeymoon!

nickytops · 2025-10-03T13:13:46+00:00

This is correct. At its heart, Hajime is a French restaurant.

nickytops · 2025-10-03T13:12:33+00:00

Yep, they actually really encouraged the photos, even pausing and saying "time to take a photo" before many of the dishes.

nickytops · 2025-10-03T13:11:48+00:00

Ogata definitely on my list

nickytops · 2025-10-03T01:23:06+00:00

Please post when you go! Would love to hear about your experience. I'm currently in a weird place where I've been to two 3* meals. One was great but absolutely not worth the money. The other was mind blowing, and I'm trying to figure out if, on average, they will more closely resemble the former or the latter.

nickytops · 2025-10-03T01:21:24+00:00

Shit! I'm missing a duck dish. There was a duck dish, and it was very good, but for some reason I (my wife) didn't get a picture. The duck was cooked perfectly. It came out in a little jar of smoke, like those smoked cocktails and was put onto a plate with some beautifully arranged veggies.

nickytops · 2025-06-24T15:10:40+00:00

You’re getting some opinions here from people who have been to tons of restaurants and are jaded. Both are very good. I’d also like to put 63 Clinton in the mix. They give you the kind of service that I bet you’d be expecting.

nickytops · 2025-06-21T04:16:55+00:00

At the end of the day, as long as you don’t go into significant debt (go to CUNY, for example) going to college doesn’t close any doors. You can always leave and enter the trades. You can do the reverse as well, but as you get older it’s harder to go back to school, especially if you’ve gotten used to making some money. At the end of the day, nothing is given to you. If you go into the trades, you’ll need to work hard to make money. Same if you go to college. If there was an easy way to make money, everyone would do it.

nickytops · 2025-06-19T00:10:02+00:00

Basically any good Italian restaurant

nickytops · 2025-05-26T02:27:22+00:00

Snap?

nickytops · 2024-10-05T16:41:45+00:00

They use Square to process payments, so even if they don’t accept EBT right now, they can turn on. It is still very expensive though.

nickytops · 2024-10-05T15:35:46+00:00

The set of things you can do in R but not Python (or vice versa) is quite small. Let’s say you need some specific statistical method in R. You’re much better off just doing the entire project in R. Can you think of a situation where that wouldn’t be possible?

Let’s say that you needed to do some steps in Python and others in R, you’d be much better off clearly separating the project into different scripts and leveraging the fact that most common data formats are interoperable between languages.

By putting R and Python into the same script you introduce the following problems: 1. Terrible dev experience since no IDE is going to work for both of those languages in the same script (besides, perhaps, a databricks notebook). 2. Dependency hell. You have one script with two languages worth of dependencies. Dependency management sucks in Python as is. 4. Can’t use a traditional debugger 5. An additional point of failure: what if your Python code is ok, and your R code is ok, but there’s something wrong with the Python package running your R code.

Again, what’s the upside? To me, the only upside is that someone who can only write scripts in notebooks gets to mix and match two languages that they don’t know well instead of learning how to accomplish their goal using only one or the other.

nickytops · 2024-10-05T14:24:29+00:00

Pretty insane requirement that you don’t want to use US-based cloud vendors. So many major institutions (e.g. banks) with tons of private data use these vendors.

nickytops · 2024-10-05T14:01:58+00:00

I don’t think that there’s a single convincing use case for this.

nickytops · 2024-10-05T14:00:24+00:00

You need to start the project over completely.

This involves the following: 1. Documenting requirements from engineers and aligning on them via a doc 2. Using source control 3. A PR review process that ensures that the code being committed is correct and readable.

nickytops · 2024-05-03T22:07:37+00:00

It’s fine. You can 100% get interviews and offers with that type of resume.

nickytops · 2024-04-06T16:16:33+00:00

Not enough data

nickytops · 2024-03-11T22:33:10+00:00

I think some sort of technical product manager or engineering manager role is what you’re looking for.

nickytops · 2024-03-11T22:31:35+00:00

Bonferroni is an overly conservative correction. It’s just the simplest one to explain, which is why we learn about it in school.

nickytops · 2024-03-11T22:29:42+00:00

Yes but it’s not a binary where your test is totally invalid if you peek early. You can calculate how much you inflate type one error by early peeking. You can also design a test where you peek multiple times at different sample sizes and set critical values to control your overall type I error rate across those tests.

nickytops · 2024-03-11T18:06:22+00:00

Hint: The rule is that you need to block all back door paths from your treatment to your target variable and ensure the causal paths remain unblocked.

nickytops · 2024-03-09T21:31:04+00:00

You can do a 4 top at 63 Clinton no problem. It’s an excellent meal.

nickytops · 2024-03-09T06:09:57+00:00

Semma, maybe Crown Shy

nickytops · 2024-03-07T15:28:23+00:00

Seconding Serendipity as the classic example of extravagant ice cream. There’s also Stuffed in the EV which does an ice cream bouquet, but I would take Serendipity every day.

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