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In Japan, houses and apartments usually have at most one transparent window. The rest are heavily frosted. It took a while to adjust to that model but once I did I wished we did this more in the US. You get more light during the day, since clear windows don’t actually let in that much light unless the sun is shining directly in, then it’s usually too much light. You have absolute privacy — you can walk around buck naked without having to draw a curtain anywhere. And, unless you happen to be in the minority and have a killer view, frosted glass makes it less distracting to be indoors. Random stuff going on outside doesn’t steal your focus at all. The fact is that for most people there really is t much to look at out their windows — a crumbling street, the neighbor’s fence, the wall of the apartment building next door, a parking lot. But of course if you do happen to have a killer view, you can always have a clear window in that direction.

Touché...

Not a personal attack. These posters are smarter than I am, just ribbing them about misusing the terminology.

"Maxima" is plural, "maximum" is singular. So you would say "a local maximum," or "several local maxima." Not "a local maxima" or, the one that really got me, "getting trapped in local maxima's."

As for the rest of it, carry on. Good discussion.

Not a single one of you bigbrains used the word "maxima" correctly and it's driving me crazy.

I used to use plumbum for Pythonic(ish) shell scripting. It was great for a specific use case.

Found this comment while trying to figure out if this is a joke.

What an amazing sport.

Lindy effect.

Came here to see if anyone else had a problem with that timeline.

Huh. I wish I had encountered this way of thinking sooner.

Is this this the Mitchell translation?

This is the truth. A Fuji apple in Japan is life-changing. A Fuji apple in Minnesota is flavorless and either hard as a rock or mushy and granular. It’s all about the source.

That was not anticlimactic.

Interesting. Do you have a source for that?

I had hypothesized that the antibiotics were either giving my immune system a boost which was tamping down some underlying inflammation somewhere, or were helping fight some intestinal flora that normally cause some subtle mood effects that I wouldn’t normally notice until it was absent. But I was never able to find anything online to pin it down one way or the other.

Almost nothing stated here is accurate…

If they put you on probiotics at the same time, it might have been that. Took me weeks to figure out that it wasn’t the meds making me sick, it was the probiotics they recommended to keep the meds from damaging my gut. I just didn’t tolerate them well for some reason.