Notices by loveydoe, page 12
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If anypony is interested, there is a new group since last night by caret7 called ponyphilosophy, for discussing philosophy.
Monday, 28-Jul-14 21:13:03 UTC from web -
!ponyphilosophy #friendship From "Twenty Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy": "In a close relationship with another person, you sometimes feel that you are becoming nothing more than a fixture in his or her life. No matter how hard you try, you seem never to be able to satisfy your friend's desires. Experiencing yourself as chronically criticized, you begin to lose any sense of value. On the other hand, it is thorugh relationships that you often experience your most intense feelings of self-affirmation, of connection, of worth. Under a lover's gaze, you can find yourself transformed: you are stunningly attractive, fiercely intelligent, astonishingly sensitive. It is interesting that self-affirmation is often accompanied by a sense that there are no boundaries between you and your friend or lover: where before there were two, now there is one."
Monday, 28-Jul-14 20:53:12 UTC from web -
!ponyphilosophy For a philosophical intro to the concept of "friendship" and other forms of love, I recommend the Stanford Encyclopedia entry here: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/friendship/ . See also the short, poetic essay by Emerson here: http://www.emersoncentral.com/friendship.htm
Monday, 28-Jul-14 20:45:46 UTC from web -
@thewaifutyphoon Plans for the logo of a group on this site.
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!art Celestia sketch. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/771329
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!art A princess. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/771323
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@metaltao I messed up bad! Mixed up by Bs and As. That message is trash. It should read, 'letsrp'
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Now that is how an evening is spent.
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@thewaifutyphoon You could a decoder that maps the case of blocks of five letters to a table of their translations. To encode text, you just need a fake message that is as long as five times the real message's length; then allow a program to fix the casing of this fake string to reflect the As and Bs of the code string, using the same table.
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@loveydoe @redenchilada @metaltao @thewaifutyphoon I propose that common dipthongs and digraphs be represented by the remaining values in the BB--- field. On the whole, it might shrink text more than having whole words there would.
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@redenchilada Incidental. A little scripting would help with that, but it is much more satisfying to do this manually.
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@redenchilada Nothing beats a nice, painstakingly transformed Bacon text, though. It hides a message inside another one, which is what I like most about it.
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@loveydoe I can't see those buttons, due to my client.
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@thewaifutyphoon The standard UNIX program rot13 made quick work of that. ;-)
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@redenchilada That is pretty cool. :^B Joking!
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@thewaifutyphoon Luckily, we can still use it to keep certain things out of sight for casual visitors, if they wouldn't want to see it.
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@metaltao It would be trivial to write a computer program to decode and encode these. I like the manual way, though. Now we can transmit slips of information without them being obvious to people who don't want to hear them.
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@metaltao Imagine each five letters of the encoded message as a discrete block. Change every capital letter to an A. Change every lowercase letter to a B. Then, compare each of the five-letter-long chunks of As and Bs to the chart on that Wikipedia page.
