Colon (:) introduces something. You usually use it when what comes after is a list, or an explanation, or even a reveal.
An example is “she had one rule: never apologize” or “this is a list of things you should get from the market: eggs, tomatoes…”
It’s also used as the eyes in a smiley face :)
Semicolon (;) connects two complete thoughts that are related but could stand alone as separate sentences. It’s stronger than a comma but softer than a full stop.
An example is “Frank never apologized; he didn't think he was wrong”
It’s also used as the eyes in a winking face ;)
I’ve spent the past couple of weeks building Looters: a public archive of Nigerian political corruption since the 1990s.
Governors, ministers, shell companies, Swiss accounts, the Jersey trusts, — one searchable graph.
You too can connect the dots: https://t.co/faIfzWfAIp
Me: Most Nigerians are unemployable! They're more concerned about salary than growing the business. An employer is concerned about who can grow their systems. If earning a good salary is a priority for any employee, they should work for banks or old, established organizations.
Hi Hamid,
I am Yusuf. I came across your mountains post from yesterday 25/4, and it stopped me completely. I decided to push myself to the limit and implement your formula from scratch, pixel by pixel, as a personal mathematical challenge.
After careful study of the image, I have successfully identified and understood 12 of the 14 mathematical objects:
✓ F(x) — color compression to [0, 255]
✓ N_s(x,y) — fractal noise with 6^5 * 5^(-s) frequency scaling
✓ E(x,y) — fractal envelope as a 50-term weighted sum
✓ Z_s(x,y) — layer occlusion product
✓ S(x,y) — sky value
✓ R(x,y) — layer depth value
✓ T(x,y) — distance to mountain center
✓ B(x,y) — slope angle via arctan
✓ A(x,y) — layer brightness
✓ H_v(x,y) — final color channel for v = 0, 1, 2
✓ Coordinate mapping: x = (m-1000)/600, y = (601-n)/600
✓ The full N_s structure
The two I cannot read precisely enough from the image are:
✗ J_s(x,y) — the mountain shape indicator
✗ K_v(x,y) — the lighting kernel
I can see the general structure of both. J_s uses a double exponential with cosine products and E(x,y)/1000 in the exponent, and K_v sums 50 terms of (91/100)^s weighted by cosines involving T, B and v. But the exact coefficients inside the ridge shape term of J_s and the cosine arguments of K_v are too dense to read at the resolution I have.
What I am currently seeing in my attempts: the layering and occlusion work correctly and the fractal texture E renders as expected, but without the exact J_s the mountain silhouettes are wrong. Peaks appear at incorrect positions and the snow and rock boundary does not match your image.
This is purely a personal challenge. I am not doing this for any commercial purpose.
Could you point me to where the full formula is published, or share a higher resolution crop of the equation panel from that post? Even just confirming those two functions would be enough to complete the implementation.
Thank you.
Yusuf
That phantom personal assistant we all aspire to have. Someone that will help organize your work, schedule, and help remind you of your To-do, follow ups with other staff, clients, vendors, on your behalf, write basic proposals for you to upgrade, or proof read yours, trustworthy
Whenever I am in conversation with a love interest, especially one I am besotted with, and I notice the slightest escalation in her voice, I ask her to be calm. I remind her that it is just the two of us, that there is no need to raise her voice. My own remains steady, almost soothing. It does not matter what the situation is, I stay composed. And that composure has an effect. It settles her. It brings her back.
I learned this from Marty Byrde, that calmness, even under pressure, is a kind of leverage most people do not understand. People assume it means you are unbothered, immune to the weight of what is happening. You are not. You feel it all. You simply understand that panic solves nothing, and in most cases, only makes everything worse.
i've actually come to realise that regret is a cruel storyteller. It rewrites the past with the wisdom of the present, convinces you that you should have known better when you actually had no way of knowing at all.
This paragraph from Carl Jung hits so hard.
“The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.”
Who would have believed there is a thing like this in Nigeria, in Bayelsa for that matter…
These are things our government should be looking into, instead they stupidly play politics with everything
It's going to be tough to become a billionaire off a service you can provide.
It must be a systematic approach. Set up a structure that makes the service delivery repeatable, at scale.
I'd recommend you add a product too, that can be replicated at scale.
This combined approach may work after adding luck to the mix. Lol. Goodluck.