kappasan

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Kyoto, Japan

https://dedede.de/en

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Toward an Archive of Everyday Urban Observations medium.com

1 kappasan 9 months ago 0 comments

Ninja Codes: Neurally Generated Fiducial Markers for Stealthy 6-DoF Tracking wikitopia.city

2 kappasan 1 year ago 0 comments

Comment · 1 year ago

Still working on dédédé [1] - it's a simple web-based platform to share the "good, bad, and why"s of urban spaces. We're slowly adding functionalities and crushing bugs, an iOS app is in the pipeline too!

[1] https://dedede.de/en

Comment · 1 year ago

Thanks so much, and super cool newsletter btw!

Not directly involved with for Cities, but they're friends of friends and we should have a chance to meet them very soon.

Comment · 1 year ago

Did a Show HN about a month ago, but we're hard at work building dédédé [1] - it's a not-for-profit website that invites people to casually share the "good, bad, and why"s of urban spaces.

[1] https://dedede.de/en

We're based in Kyoto and the posts are heavily Japan-centric; we'd love to see posts from all over the world!

Comment · 1 year ago

Haven't been to Chongqing in a while, but the vertical nature of the city is fascinating [1]. It's like they layered multiple cities on top of each other! Curious how that affects social interactions in daily life.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CityPorn/comments/8kqwnf/chongqing_...

Comment · 1 year ago

We have something similar here in Kyoto! But we're Japan so there's an actual anime [1] and a character relationship chart [2], both straight from the city government.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OInuZFHeQo

[2] https://www.city.kyoto.lg.jp/kotsu/cmsfiles/contents/0000215...

Comment · 1 year ago

Speaking of computational knitting, I recently learned about "solid knitting" [1] which is awesome.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2024/solid-knitting

Comment · 1 year ago

A big Jacobs fan here, but I remember reading her book (The Death and Life of...) and also about Robert Moses and thinking "hmm both sides have a point" so she'd probably hate me if she was still alive.

I personally think she was a bit too trusting of the (cybernetics-adjacent?) idea of order spontaneously arising from chaos.

Comment · 1 year ago

Tangential but the name is a pun - "kezuroukai" translates to "shall we shave?" in Japanese, but "kai" can also mean something like "gathering" or "community".

Comment · 1 year ago

So like Gossip's Cafe? https://gossips.cafe

Comment · 1 year ago

Thanks so much for checking out the website! I hear machiya are quickly disappearing in Kyoto (often turned into generic apartments) so it's great to hear your friend is keeping the old city alive.

Comment · 1 year ago

Cool photos! My workplace is an old machiya [1] in Kyoto that's more than a hundred years old, so I kinda live like the people in these photos (not really of course - no konbini back then).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiya

Comment · 1 year ago

I wonder if it's possible to design a new formal language (something like lojban [1], with a grammar strictly based on formal logic) but with better UX so that it can be used by regular folks like me? Maybe combine something like Attempto [2] with a dedicated visual UI?

I would think a language like that could speed up knowledge base construction. Maybe it can also serve as a substitute for natural languages in some situations where we want our communication to be logically airtight.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempto_Controlled_English

On a separate note, I've always wondered how Cyc is pronounced. Is it "sike", or is it "see-why-see"?