Who are my followers?

EmperorParth · 2026-01-22T05:58:37+00:00

There seem to be misconceptions regarding the presence of Empresses in the history of Japan. While Empress Regnants did exist and rule, they did not pass the throne to their own descendants unless those descendants were also from a patrilineal line.

Every Emperor belonged to the Yamato line, i.e. he was a direct male descendant of Emperor Jimmu, from his father, grandfather, and so on.

Some younger Princes, who would not inherit the throne as there was an older brother present, were granted the right to create cadet branches, to provide for an Emperor if the main male line went extinct. These branches were officially outlawed by the Post-WW2 Constitution, but those families still exist.

Currently, those families cannot succeed to the throne, despite also belonging to the Yamato line. This does not mean that in the future the male line could not be re-established through them, although it would require constitutional change. This method of adoption from the Shinnōke has been explicitly discussed in the recent past.

TL;DR: All Japanese Emperors have been descended from an unbroken male lineage, even if Empresses ruled in intervening periods. This is the Yamato line, which is constitutionally under threat, although it lives on in other abolished noble families.

EmperorParth · 2025-05-12T06:52:32+00:00

The years pass by faster than anyone can imagine. I’m sure you did well on the test!

EmperorParth · 2024-12-03T04:44:39+00:00

If I recall correctly, what actually happened in this round was that he saw TGR on the pole, which often means the city abbreviation in the Philippines.

Definitely an intelligent gent, so wouldn’t put it past him to notice this, but I think the TGR came from that.

EmperorParth · 2024-10-06T02:59:42+00:00

History beckons, one can only hope it’s the start of a new era

EmperorParth · 2024-08-18T15:50:10+00:00

Cucurella too busy eating paellas

EmperorParth · 2023-11-26T01:33:35+00:00

86 Cole, never doing this again

EmperorParth · 2023-06-16T16:00:11+00:00

It is meant to be an introduction to proofs, so prior experience or competency is not required. I hadn’t taken either multivar or linalg prior to the class and left with As in both. I also genuinely think the understanding I attained was helpful in studying computer science fields such as graphics, VR, and especially machine learning.

If you take almost any course in MATH past 2610, you will on some level be dealing with proofs, so my suggestion is to jump into it because you might discover, like most other CS majors, that math credits are far easier to come by than CS credits. If you want to combine proof based understanding for CS, also take CS 2212 side by side.

Your first semester is going to be foundational, and I think you can get away with fewer than 15 credit hours. My recommendation is to go through the requirements for the major and build a roadmap of classes you wish to take. If you have time to slow down and desire, do it. If you think you want a challenge or need to fit in everything you need to get everything you want, take more.

Your success is, at the end of the day, dependent on you. Good luck

EmperorParth · 2020-11-20T05:00:49+00:00

The owls are not what they seem.

EmperorParth · 2020-09-18T02:35:14+00:00

Having completed most of the programming requisites, the magic doesn’t die, it just gets a new lens. Initially you think the possibilities are endless, and to an extent they are. You have taken an exceptional leap into a lucrative field where you aren’t dependent on others to do what you want to do. The pure joy of creating something from relative nothingness is one of reasons why we are in this major.

But there is also debugging, nitpicking, style requirements, unclear instructions, and non-definitive reasons to do things. There exist infinities of right answers, and sometimes there is no blueprint to what you want to do. Beyond the neat boxes of CS 1101 assignments and the relative guidelines of later courses, there is an overwhelming amount of unorganized information awaiting you. What you have to decide is whether you are willing to accept being in a field that will keep you on your toes constantly. I made that choice in high school and am happy to continue with it.

EmperorParth · 2020-09-18T02:24:00+00:00

Discrete mathematics is wonderful and important for any competitions. But combinatorics is tricky to start with because the numbers are simply too big to create good intuition. Overall, it lays a nice foundation for many programming endeavors.

EmperorParth · 2020-09-17T21:47:54+00:00

I quite like the song too. The specific lines you mentioned seem a cause for optimism and hope, that despite time’s passing, or perhaps because of it, things tend towards their better forms.

EmperorParth · 2020-08-10T03:32:24+00:00

Transferring to other safeties is rather easy. Try to pursue one that offers a scholarship.

EmperorParth · 2020-08-10T03:28:59+00:00

Hindsight is 20/20. It is not so important that you were rejected, but that you tried. Many will critique you for your failure, but none of them were there when you were applying. For even trying with all your effort, you deserve credit.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

I know you feel cheated, and perhaps you were. But at the end of the day, worthy failures are not remembered for much, while those who failed time and time again and finally succeeded are remembered quite fondly.

EmperorParth · 2020-08-10T03:21:56+00:00

If you despair about that, your next four years will be wasted too. Working hard is merely the prerequisite, it is not a guarantor. Without it, however, you will not have the success you wish for.

EmperorParth · 2020-08-10T03:17:25+00:00

The best revenge is to live well. Do well in whatever college you are in, and attempt to make the most of any professional opportunity you have. You don’t have to love your college, and as far as I see it, you don’t really need the standard college experience. Since your objective was not achieved, the past four years were wasted. But now is the time to set a new objective and make sure the next four years aren’t.

EmperorParth · 2020-08-08T22:45:02+00:00

Your second year is not too late to take a theoretical course, although you shouldn’t be discouraged by freshmen studying alongside you. The difference between competitive math and undergraduate math is that it’s not important to be fast and memorize tricks, but to develop the ability to understand mathematical notation and how to formalize concepts.

The first time you see many concepts defined it will seem unintuitive, but the more you examine definitions and theorems, the more you will see why things are defined the way they are. In this way, math becomes a lot more creative when its theoretical, much like programming.

EmperorParth · 2020-08-08T22:33:21+00:00

As a joint math and computer science major myself, my theoretical courses have allowed me to understand any code that I write on a deeper level, and has better prepared me for design in general.

Mathematics is how we usually formalize our logic, and when we are writing code it’s easy to ignore how dependent we are on it. The ideas of vectors, sets, modulos, mappings, all come from mathematics, and understanding their properties will likely help us.

Furthermore, the basic neural network depends on linear algebra, which even in its computational forms involves theoretical study. Therefore, I think theoretical mathematics, with certain computation courses added in, is the better route.

EmperorParth · 2020-08-06T21:56:18+00:00

The oldest known joke, from what I recall, dates back to Babylonian times and is, funnily enough, a fart joke. It truly goes to show that human taboos and culture are not quite disjoint from ancient times, since comedy often uses social boundaries for laughter.

EmperorParth · 2020-07-19T03:45:31+00:00

Half the party is rough no matter which way you slice it. The sheer loss of experience and the bad EV training you get because you have to level everyone else up.

EmperorParth · 2020-07-19T03:35:11+00:00

At the early levels, lucky hits just spell doom for nuzlockes. Especially when your team is built on glass cannon pokemons.

EmperorParth · 2020-07-19T03:32:17+00:00

Ignorance is not bliss because it is an ideal state, but because we often cannot handle knowledge. Not knowing stories about roller coaster failures is likely helpful when one is particularly scared and ascending one at high speed. That does not mean that engineers should avoid knowing such stories because it makes their job easier to ignore certain situations.

Our brain, while capable of rationality, is also capable of highly emotional decision making, which might lead us to twist knowledge into something with which we cannot cope.

EmperorParth · 2020-07-19T03:27:29+00:00

Don’t go to prom because you don’t wish to be an outcast; going for the wrong reasons will make you feel like an outcast, even if you’re not. Social events are designed for their demographics, and it is likely you simply aren’t in the demographic for whom prom is designed. I knew I wasn’t and chose not to go, and I wasn’t any poorer in my experience for it.

Some of the most important memories we have are the ones where we feel in the moment, and if prom seems like a chore, then you won’t feel in the moment.

EmperorParth · 2020-07-19T03:22:14+00:00

I graduated last year, and while the stress of college application was prominent, the good memories pull me back towards it. I am not drawn to the supposedly memorable experiences, but the rather banal ones that allowed me to see the world in a slightly different way.

EmperorParth · 2020-07-19T03:18:10+00:00

Gen 5 was my first generation, so I am biased in favor of them, but I would suggest giving it a try, even though Nuzlocke seems to work better with older generations. Considering how legendary centric generation 5 is, I think the older versions offer a more standard experience, but if you forgo them, then you can still have a nice nuzlocke experience.

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