What did I forget?

Aren't these things like popular among, well, people in general? There isn't really anything here that sticks out.

i'm pretty sure playing eve online is a diagnostic criterium for aspergers

Please don't shout. I'm very sensitive to noise and I left my loops at home.

md

    
> rust

bruh.wav

I prefer the actual C successor to the marriage of flesh of OCaml and C. It's actually good at game development, not just at rolling out countless of engines.

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.

Well you gotta share that ranking now...
- And that script. I'm curious how you implemented it.
- 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 like Kazakhstan's flag because I think its a nice combination of colors:
Its not very low entropy though, at least not compared to ones like Germany's or Ukraine's.
I love that you have multiple people replying to you asking for technical details on how you ranked the flag entropy. This is how you know that you are amongst your people here <3
Hmm. It seems weird that any tricolour flags would have different entropies, but I don't know how you would otherwise do a multichannel entropy.
I was imagining a kolmogorov-esque doodad
- 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.
How are you defining the entropy of a flag?
- Subtracting it's normalized negentropy from 1
- i'd define it as size of an svg file that represents the flag, since more complex flag -> more fundamental elements (rectangles, circles) needed -> bigger file size -> more entropy.
How do you rate entropy? Is the script open source so we can see it?
- 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.
....and what is the stack ranked result?
- That really depends on the algorithm used. Ideally it takes colous and spacial information into account. I'll keep you posted on the ranking.
What is it about the flag of Japan that you like so much?
- Simplicity I suppose. Colour combination. In my opinion if i can draw it from memory it's a good flag.
- Two colors, with a basic shape centered? I guess it's ok.
“Welcome to fun with flags!”
I also love flags, flags are so beautiful (except the flag of Haiti, fuck you Haiti with your MS paint looking flag)
- 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.

Why do autistic people love pie charts with red circles?

正直、全くわかない
- The 3rd character looks like an arrow so I can only assume shots have been fired.

C and Rust mentioned in one meme? Be more careful to not cause a ruckus next time.

Yeah, please limit your programming language mentions to memory safe languages only!
- Also in the meantime: https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs

I'm not autistic but I like most of these things.

I'm autistic and the only thing i like is D&D. Trains are fine i guess, but I don't particularly care for them

Is this how I find out I'm autistic??

This is how you find out you're cool 😎
- Cool and autistic 😎

No dinosaurs‽‽ XD

What do the cat ears have to do with Maxwell's equations

No idea. Cat ears seem to be more popular with computer science people, should've put them on the Rust logo instead.
- Aren’t they more queer than autistic (though probably falling in the overlap)?
Couldn't nicely put pngs with transparent backgrounds in there for these two, so they both got white backgrounds and put next to each other.
- Why not put it in the JP flag?
My interpretation is noise sensitivity. Especially when thinking.

Wow, the precision with which this struck me is concerning. I'm really, incredibly autistic at all times aren't I?

Tylenol sure is a hell of a drug

Stupidly large murika style cars are gonna be a no from me dawg

Look at that thing, the bonnet comes up to this stomach!

Not autism approved nu-uh

haterner miku!!!!

edit, since OP is adding things in I removed the white background. Also for OP, you can use https://www.remove.bg/upload for that, you don't get the full quality image but for this use case it's good enough

Thanks Quinny, but uploading to lemmy seems to automatically convert to jpeg.
- womp womp 😢

This is male centric as the female’s I know in the spectrum have different interests generally speaking.

True, but what would be common interests of female autists? Biology? Tumblr?

Thinkpads are objectively good laptops tho. At least T series.

Especially for linux.

No Sonic mention? Shame

(Mostly just us) Fursuit/furry stuffs, a billion plushies, bicycles, city architecture, trams, hiding when guests are over, Star Wars, one piece, the *perfect note book * (it’s one we made from a spare book cardboard, sewed in our own pages and it in many many stickers,) Books, old English, ASL/writing what to say when non verbal and safe foods

What's up with Maxwell and Autism?

I wanted to represent science, math and engineering with those.
- Maxwell equations?

Fursuiting ware

I feel personally attacked, how did you know my entire personality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8HO6hba9ZE

'Drop it like it's hot' is the first thing I think of when I see that pic of Thomas.

Where's Fallout? I fucken swear a quarter of the fan base is autistic, the other quarters are trans, fascists, and Slavs.

Me except im not that intrested in Japan (I love Vietnam tho), im not that intrested in Minecraft (ive just played it for too long), not that intrested in Pokémon (never got into it). You forgot a few things tho

Programming socks
Star Trek
:3
Mechanical keyboards
Walkable cities (and a general obsession with people focused city planning)

Socks as in Berkeley Sockets or socks with programming Lingo on them?
- Neither, thigh highs :3

i see linux,minecraft,japan(i just like the games that originate from this country mostly),thinkpad,C,Rust
wait....
I think I’m autistic.

TIL I am, apparently, as well.

Why is Lain so popular these days? I still have my rips from 20 years ago on an old hard drive.

I just don't seem to understand.

A shame, you seemed an honest man.
We started living in a terminally online cyberpunk dystopia around 2020.
- Present day. Present time!
- if you're that online, you should consider going offline more, tbh, meeting people irl is great :P
The opening song Duvet became popular on tiktok and a new generation got to know Lain thanks to that
The kids find her "gen z stare" relatable

black people are popular with the autistics?

If there's ever a race war, I'm 100% team black, if they'll have me.

Conlangs!!

You forgot pride flags, blahaj, astronomy, and psychedelics. I would also say far-left politics, but there's plenty of right-wing autists out there too.

Based on posts around here, the Roman Empire.

i'm not a fan of it at all, it was a country of rapists the way they invaded their neighboring countries.

I didn't use to be autistic.

But then it got hyped so I got on board and now I am also autistic.

Because I don't want to be different from my peers.

Not me learning how to solve a rubix cube last week and buying 3 more cubes recently

Magic the Gathering and D&D

You're absolutely right! I've edited the meme to contain your suggestions.

Not a fan of Japan tbh

The flag is a big plus
- Nah, you're thinking of Switzerland.

It needs timepieces. Or am I the only one who likes NTP, ISO-8601, sundials and Casio F-91Ws?

Just you. They're made exclusively for you.

Star Wars!

When my son joined Cub Scouts, we went to our first big Cub event, some big potluck dinner, and I sat next to a kid with a Star Wars t-shirt. I love Star Wars, saw the first movie in the theater, and have been a fan my whole life, so I asked, "You a Star Wars fan?" And he started talking, and so did I.

We were having a nice conversation about Star Wars, when his mother came up and said "Are you talking about Star Wars again? What did we say about that? You can't just start talking to random strangers about Star Wars!"

I responded, "No, you don't understand, I asked him about it. I love Star Wars, too," and the kid looked really happy that I'd defended him.

His mom said, "You don't understand, he has Asbergers, he'll NEVER stop talking about it," which didn't sound so bad to me, I had lots to talk about with this kid, he was a big fan, and knew his stuff.

We parted, but I've wondered ever since if I have Asperger's about Star Wars, too. Probably Music, too.

I obsess over half of these things and my kids' mom the other. Our kids never stood a chance.

I relate to others, but isn't the Rubix cube quite common in STEM people? Dunno what that has to do with autism

there is an objectively higher number of autistic people in stem, so both can be true

is this an engineering meme?