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Samurai City 2 months ago

Shogun describes the period just before the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. This article describes the system that developed after that, under the Shoguns.

I am from eastern India, not Brazil. It is definitely too humid to wear robes. Arabia is dry and hot, very different from humid and hot.

UK was actually reducing their debt as percentage of GDP throughout 1960s. It went down below 100% in 1961 and kept going down all the way to 1990 or so. The debt had originally climbed to over 250% as a result of financing the two world wars.

It was Balboa who led the first European expedition across isthmus of Panama and saw the Pacific Ocean and claimed it (yes,the whole Ocean) for Spain. Cortez to my knowledge never set foot in Panama.

The Scottish colony was much later.

It is the Google Pay app. The Google Wallet app is separate and (at least in India) do not have payment functionality.

Edited to add: actually the popular app in India is GPay which I think is different from the older Google Pay.

Google's payment apps are very confusing.

Probably because Fortran stores matrices and other multidimensional arrays in column order. Traditionally most numerical computation software was written in Fortran and numpy calls those under the hood. Storing in row order would have meant copying the data to column major order and back for any call to Fortran.

I think the work on decompression was done by his father? His father did experiment on both himself and his son.

His uncle was the Liberal Party politician Richard Haldane who was the secretary of war for UK just before WWI and carried out some reforms which were pretty important in setting how the British army fought in the early part of the great war.

Garum Masala 3 years ago

Śākya Gaṇarājya translates to English as Shakya Republic and that is actually correct. Kapilavastu was the capital of the Republic/Oligarchy of the Shakya clan. Buddha's father was the elected chief at the time of his birth. This is why one of his epithets is Shakyamuni ("muni" means sage so sage of the Shakyas.)

Strictly speaking Buddha was not a royal price but scion of an aristocratic family. As a comparison think of someone born in a patrician family of Rome when his father is a Consul of Rome. The Wikipedia article has good details about the Shakyas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakya

The crew (other than the captain who probably had his own cabin) probably stayed at the lower deck because the gun deck had better ventilation for the passengers. It took a long time after a ship first became visible for a gun battle to occur so the crew had enough time to get ready.

It is somewhat unclear from his writing but did he compare this metaprogramming solution against OpenBlas or Atlas or just the reference BLAS/LAPACK implementation? If I was trying to do any significant linear algebra computations, I would definitely first try an optimized BLAS/LAPACK solution first.

Actually one of the attendees at the Constitutional Convention, Elbridge Gerry was partially responsible for the first Gerrymandered voting districts and the concept is named for him (and the fact that one of the districts was depicted shaped like a Salamander in a cartoon.)