Nick Kapur
@nick_kapur
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Historian of Japan and East Asia. I only tweet extremely interesting things. Also on bluesky - search for my name.
Joined February 2010
But people apparently long for the days of 20 seconds of iso before someone jacks up a contested mid-range jumper. The real problem seems to be that basketball has gotten so complicated that viewers no longer understand what they are seeing.
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Today I learned that Japanese toilet manufacturer Toto, famed for their super hi-tech toilets, also plays a small but important role in the semiconductor industry
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Enjoying this Japanese soda composed mainly of sugar, apple juice, and...carbonated milk
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RT @shinobu_books: You are not allowed to say the f-word because there are animals without middle fingers. Pictured are some of the animals…
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RT @nick_kapur: Of the 24 busiest train stations in the world, the top 23 are all in Japan ❤️🚃🚅🚄🇯🇵
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If the 3.6 million people who pass through Tokyo's Shinjuku station every single day were a city, they would be the 3rd largest city in the United States - that's 35% more people then the entire city of Chicago
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RT @Brian_Riedl: “Why aren’t you cheering Trump & DOGE? I thought you wanted spending and deficit cuts!" Because I’ve been doing this for…
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RT @HistorianZhang: Curious how Chinese chitchat on the US at the moment frequently reference the Cultural Revolution. The extralegal takeo…
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Where Americans think they get most of their imported oil vs. where it actually comes from
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Although Trump's government-wide spending freeze was rescinded, his climate and energy spending freeze remains in place, threatening to torpedo a massive $167 billion in private investments.
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The US government is going to use deeply flawed "AI" language models to address the security of its nuclear weapons stockpiles. What could possibly go wrong???
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RT @modernjapanhist: MJHA is thrilled to announce that the 2025 Modern Japan History Association Book Prize has been awarded to Ryo Morimot…
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Best breakdown I've seen so far of the doomed last play by the Bills against the Chiefs in the AFC championship. So often football comes down to a simple game of rock-paper-scissors. Spagnuolo threw scissors all game, Josh Allen guessed scissors, and Spagnuolo finally threw rock.
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Is handwriting style a heritable trait? I've seen many cases where children have almost identical handwriting to their parents. Many experts claim this is just because children "subconsciously copy" their parents' handwriting, but this seems to be clearly false. My daughter's handwriting looks uncannily exactly like mine, but in this age of digital texts, she almost never had any chance to see my handwriting, and learned to write entirely at school. It seems genetics must have played a role.
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The stock market is freaking out and Nvidia stock droped 17% in a single day yesterday, all because Chinese company DeepSeek found ways to train AI models much more cheaply and using fewer chips. But the notion that training AI more cheaply is bad for Nvidia is ludicrous. AI compute becoming cheaper will only drive more demand for AI compute, from a wider variety of actors, which will only increase demand for Nvida chips, in a classic case of the Jevons paradox. And DeepSeek's AI models were all trained on...Nvidia chips.
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