Is this not how it looks if you list receipients in the BCC field?

We have Dies Irae from Verdi’s Requiem. Not that it gets played much anymore since we are now older and dull.

Yeah, she certainly acts that way and we let her. Her favourite hobby is bird watching: when there’s birds near the window and she’s not around we shout “bird!” and she shoots up to the window with ears flat, eager to spy on some feathery creatures.

Started to read Southern Reach series by Jeff Vandermeer. Anyway, unrelated picture is Raisin.

A Necronomicon for the stone age.

May I comment on the wording I gave eye contact? Makes me feel like it is a duty, and we are expected to meet a quota of it by giving it up.

Anyway, I get these mixed feelings about praise. On one hand we wish to be seen, socially recognised and acknowledged for our accomplishments however it might come at a cost of expectations on us: it forces us to react, to speak up and adhere to other social standards. Perhaps even worse if we dealt with abusive people in the past and we cannot shake this feeling that it might not be genuine and it takes effort to parse it through our sarcasm detector.

Yeah, every time my child and I walk to the beach we collect the most interesting rocks we can find. And some beach glass. So that’s why I was thrilled finding this community of rock aficionados.

My life’s motto.

Thanks! I’d hoped with learning the name I finally would have learned the cause for the cavities, but alas it seems there’s no consensus as per the link you kindly shared.

End game not so much, rather a tendency where the world around him reflects his inflated ego by leaving some sort of legacy bearing his name: a nobel price or resolving a major conflict or annexing some other nation.

Ah, a fellow dry dreamer. I’m a dream virgin. I always wondered what it would be like, how it compares to the wake experience.

Congrats on the sleep. What’s the story about you not sleeping?

It regretfully is not called hand socks.

Yes! And weirder that bicolour banded flags are not consistently on top. I suspect some float errors. I just know that using the typical Shannon style does even worse. I might add some filter that calculates a differential or something.

That really depends on the algorithm used. Ideally it takes colous and spacial information into account. I’ll keep you posted on the ranking.

I tried different definitions and settled on spectral entropy. This one uses fourier transform and (I think) this takes the spacial relation of the pixels into account, as opposed to the more common Shannon definition. I’d like to share it but am not sure on how to do that: were I to use GitHub I would doxx myself.

Their previous version was indeed without the coat of arms. Much cooler I think. During that time the Liechtenstein flag was identical, but they (Liechtenstein) changed it upon discovery.

Simplicity I suppose. Colour combination. In my opinion if i can draw it from memory it’s a good flag.

I owe it to the community. Since I don’t have it anymore I am coding it up again. Allow me some time - it’s weekend and I have family to look after.

I see a flag. I like flags. Especially the Japanese flags. I don’t specifically care for Japan, but the flag is one of my favourites. I prefer flags with low entropy: so I wrote a script once that ranks the nations flags by entropy so I could quantify my preference. Thanks for letting me infodump a bit.

Edit: Due to people aski g for it: here is the top ten of my ranking:

Nations' flag entropy ranking (n=208). 
Image source: Wikimedia.

0	white_field			-1.439759075204976e-10
1	Indonesia			3.3274441922278752
2	Germany			3.391689777286108
3	South_Ossetia			3.8174437373506778
4	Monaco			3.9718936201427066
5	Poland			3.9719290780440133
6	Austria			4.372592975412404
7	Ukraine			4.405280849871184
8	Hungary			4.4465472496385985
9	Albania			4.6134257669087395
10	Mauritius			4.707109405551959
11	Luxembourg			4.721346585737304

Here’s how I defined the entropy value for each flag:

def color_weighted_spectral_entropy(image):
    b_channel, g_channel, r_channel = cv2.split(image)
    
    # Calculate spectral entropy for each channel
    def channel_spectral_entropy(channel):
        f_transform = np.fft.fft2(channel)
        f_shifted = np.fft.fftshift(f_transform)
        magnitude_spectrum = np.abs(f_shifted)
        if np.sum(magnitude_spectrum) > 0:
            normalized = magnitude_spectrum / np.sum(magnitude_spectrum)
        else:
            normalized = magnitude_spectrum
        # Entropy calculation with color channel weighting
        epsilon = 1e-10
        entropy = -np.sum(normalized * np.log2(normalized + epsilon))
        
        return entropy
    
    weighted_entropy = (
        0.333 * channel_spectral_entropy(b_channel) +
        0.333 * channel_spectral_entropy(g_channel) +
        0.333 * channel_spectral_entropy(r_channel)
    )
    
    return float(weighted_entropy)

“White_field” is just an array that holds zeroes. I use this as a sanity check. Code is on github. I can send DM to whomever is interested. I guess it can also be searched for.