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Why didn't Aboriginal Australians invent agriculture?
Because someone beat them to it.
According to Book of Exalted Deeds, how to choose between two evils?
Go for the lesser one.
Would fantasy dwarves be able to invent and/or manufacture the radio?
Your fantasy, your choice. Isn't that the point? But considering that Sandi Toksvig is rarely off the radio, I'd say there's a good chance.
Can I reproduce this in Latex?
The fact that you're asking suggests that you can't.
It's right here. It's very very far
No, it's just really, really tiny.
Can I exit and reenter a UK station while waiting for a connecting train?
Depends on a) how long you have until the second train and b) whether you can find the door.
How was the space shuttle fuelled?
Heavily.
How to write Gaussian reduction?
Look at your question, delete the bit that says "How to write" and the question mark. Do you notice anything? Good! You've just written "Gaussian reduction". Gold star!
Do I need a visa for Japan as a New Zealand Citizen?
A Japanese embassy in NZ will provide a far better answer to this than the average person on the internet. In the meantime, I recommend Google.
What is an idiom, phrase or expression for situation such as "throw a pigeon among cats"
The psychotropic element of cannabis is known as THC (tetra-hydro-cannibol). Reduction in consumption is sometimes a good idea.
Is there an unambiguous name for the social/political theory "liberalism" without "leftist"?
Yes, it's called "liberalism", oddly enough. Who'd have thunk it?
Is Mercy Inverse Injustice or Inversed Injustice?
If in doubt, always go for the one without the made up word.
Which person is telling the truth?
It's not me.
What are the advantages to banks being located in the City of London (the Square Mile)?
It's handy for Liverpool Street Station and you can get some stupidly expensive sandwiches. Apart from that, I'm struggling.
How would a race of humanoids with tails design [vehicle] seats?
If they're good at designing stuff then quite well, otherwise quite badly.
What is Noita downloading every time I quit the game?
Ones and zeroes, I suspect, but I'd worry more about what it's uploading.
Is it plausible for a certain area of a continent to be/remain/become uninhabited for a long period of time?
It seems to work that way in the Gobi, the Sahara, Detroit and several other places.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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PeejayAdams wrote: Do I need a visa for Japan as a New Zealand Citizen?
A Japanese embassy in NZ will provide a far better answer to this than the average person on the internet. In the meantime, I recommend Google.
Wouldn't it also depend if you were going to Japan or not?
Oh, BTW I checked with google, they don't do visa's for any country (yet).
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PeejayAdams wrote: Can I reproduce this in Latex?
Might get a bit sweaty, but hey, it's your life.
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He can wear whatever he wants, but should have some mind bleach ready, just in case anyone accidentally stumbles in.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Those are more SE questions than SO.... Good picks though....
Amit Joshi
Value of the value is valued only if its value is valued.
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Porky chaps bear paint: powder in suspension (9)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I thought a nice, simple one for Monday.
You are up tomorrow, and no themes this week!
Porky PIG
chaps MEN
bear TED
paint: powder in suspension
PIGMENTED
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: no themes this week
You got it!  (says shiftily)
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You tell em Paul - NO THEMES 
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Don't talk to me about life.
Glad I wore a Hitchhiker-themed T-shirt today.
modified 13-Oct-19 21:59pm.
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Life, Life don't talk to me about life... 
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Quote: Now the world has gone to bed,
Darkness won't engulf my head,
I can see by infra-red,
How I hate the night,
Now I lay me down to sleep,
Try to count electric sheep,
Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
How I hate the night.
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It'll be horrible it always is
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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It was a good game, the better side won - but I can't blame Scotland for wanting to play instead of taking the default draw.
I've been impressed with Japan this year - I don't think they'll last much longer (too many heavyweight teams in the way and SA is a good team) but very well done on the performance so far!
I feel sorry for Ireland though - they aren't likely to be in the tournament after next Saturday.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Japan beat South Africa in the last World Cup but are unlikely to repeat that. Scotland had too much to do on the day. Wales ( my lot ) were back to dropping and fumbling , forward passes galore ( they actually got away with one of them ) Ireland need a complete work over. Just give NZ the cup.
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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First game I've watched this tournament (not really my sport) but by God, I picked a good one!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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As a not really math familiar individuum, every time I read a math related article and find some matrix formulas I need a mnemonic to imagine what is described there (if they refer e.g. to a matrix element like Aij). In german this mnemonic is "_Z_eile _z_uerst, _Sp_alte _sp_äter" what means "Row first, Column later".
What kind of mnemonic do non German speaking people use?
And yes; no the answer "not german speaking" do not need a mnemonic is out of question 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Back when I studied maths at university (1964 or thereabouts), we referred to row-major or column-major.
Row- and column-major order - Wikipedia[^]
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Thank you for this. But in math, is it not _always_ Row, Column? You may see I'm completely noob on this 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Yes, I think the convention of row-first is well established. Of course the underlying mathematics doesn't care where you spray them round the page.
I remember ordering as being the natural counting sequence
11 12 13 ...
21 22 23 ...
... and it accords with the "across the row, down the column" summation in matrix multiplication. The mental image of two forefingers scanning like that is burned into my brain.
 If only mathematicians could become zero-based. So often in matrix maths there are subscript expressions like p+q-1
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Quote: If only mathematicians could become zero-based
I prefer for math the one base aproach which avoid lot of N-1. I'm that much used to it that I have meanwhile no problem to translate the math to zero based code 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Peter_in_2780 wrote: If only mathematicians could become zero-based.
That causes a lot of problems with number lines that do not have a zero. E.g. years go directly from -1 to +1; there never was a year zero. The elevator in our office building goes directly from floor 1 to floor -1. (To ease our minds, we have declared that the building does have a floor zero, but it is virtual, and the elevator is not built to stop at virtual locations.)
My wish is that we go back to the days of Pascal. If your array indexes run from 1950 to 2050, that is perfectly fine! If they run from 0 to 99, or from 1 to 100 - both are perfectly fine. Just tell what you want, and the compiler takes care of offsetting the index you are using in your program so that the element at the lowest index runs from the base memory address of the array. Compilers are quite good at doing that sort of calculations - it is a pity that the C group of languages forces us to do this sort of offsetting in application code.
Some hardware helps with trivialities: I once worked on a machine providing an instruction called MIX3: It decremented the value in the accumulator by 1, then multiplied it by 3. This was in the Fortran days: Fortran arrays are 1-based, and this 16-bit mini, adressing 16 bit words rather than bytes, used a 48-bit (3 word) float format. So MIX3 converted a "logical" (1-based) Fortran array index into a word offset from the (0-based) memory base address.
Handling discontinous number series, such as years around the start of our "Common Era", will always require special handling, though.
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