chestertn
Some times HN shows well-written and researched blog pieces about events or characters in scientific history. This book felt like the author read a bunch of these and put them together in a book. Then the reality-fantasy aspect of it makes no sense to me.
Why did you like it?
The DiffEq library seems to pull you towards the SciML ecosystem and that might not be agreeable to everyone.
For instance a known Julia project that simulates diff equations seems to have implemented their own solver
See: https://books.google.com/books?id=dvjNyZTFrS4C
> Okay. You'll note that the only citation to that claim is a political science professor in a political science journal
You can also check out John Elliott. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1970/11/05/spanish-holocaus...
Funny that you cite las Casas as a historical document, when it is well known that his writings were exaggerations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_Account_of_the_Destruc...
Its unfortunate that poor historical revisionism is employed in the USA for political purposes and that this becomes the baseline of historical knowledge of the average citizen.
It is one thing to analyze the colonization process outside an Eurocentric perspective (e.g., Conrad's critique of British colonialism in Heart of Darkness). Another is to create a caricature of barbarian Conquerors raping and murdering an entire civilization (or, as the protestant press of the day used to print, eating babies alive).
Genocide is "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group". Compare this with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Laws
I was just giving some support to the parent comment about the scale of sacrifices compared with the Spanish inquisition.
Even if the number is 4000, its still quite comparable with the number of executions of the Spanish inquisition over 3 centuries.
About [1], yes, I do not dispute that. But we were comparing different systems and that the Aztec system was much more cruel from a modern standard.
According to this article. “When the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan was consecrated in 1487 the Aztecs recorded that 84,000 people were slaughtered in four days”
https://qz.com/374994/aztec-sacrifice-was-real-and-its-not-f...
So, the math checks out.
This is not how the hydraulic analogy works. The "speed" of the water is irrelevant. The analogy is used to understand losses, energy balance, energy conservation, reactive power, etc.
The hydraulic analogy is very sound.
photochemsyn speaks about how the hydraulic phenomena is not adequate to describe some electronic aspects (e.g., modeling p-n silicon junctions). These issues are irrelevant to how well the hydraulic analogy works to describe the workings of the AC transmission grid.
The hydraulic analogy easily extends here - just imagine water flowing back and forth.
This is well studied [1] and power engineering books make use of this analogy.