The New York Times reports this evening that McReynolds died
on Friday, June 23, 2023.
See also Cold Mountain in this journal.
From Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier, 367-368:
"They consulted and twisted the pegs again
to make the dead man’s tuning…."
"… the timeless / With time … ." — T. S. Eliot
The broken pencil in a Dial illustration of June 20 —
"I could a tale unfold . . ." — Hamlet's father's ghost
"Thus the entire little drama, from crystallized carbon
and felled pine to this humble implement, to this
transparent thing, unfolds in a twinkle."
— Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things
"… a cardboard tube, more or less the same length as
the inner core of a toilet roll, but thicker. He frowned,
took the roll out, laid it on the desk and poked up it
with the butt end of a pencil. Something slid out.
It looked like a rolled-up black plastic dustbin liner;
but when he unfolded it, he recognised it as the funny
sheet thing he’d found in the strongroom and briefly
described as an Acme Portable Door, before losing
his nerve and changing it to something less facetious."
— Holt, Tom. The Portable Door . Orbit. Kindle Edition.
According to goodreads.com, the Holt book was
"first published March 6, 2003."
See also this journal on March 6, 2003, in a search for
Michelangelo Geometry.
Punchline of the above little drama —
"Try the other end of the pencil, Liz."
In memory of Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick,
who reportedly died today at 99:
Related legal notice from Princeton —
The above copyright notice is from The Symbolic Quest,
by one Edward C. Whitmont (birth name: Weissberg).
See a search in this journal
for the following image —
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Found today at Language Log:
Translated from the Russian —
Also from Language Log, an earlier use of the phrase —
F. C. Burnand's novel My Time and What I've Done with It , Chapter 27,
in Old and New, Volume 8, 1873:
It is thus that ignorant prejudices are fostered ;
and how few of us in afterlife have the time or the will
to sift the rubbish of the dust-bin of history
on the chance of discovering the diamond of truth.
"I could a tale unfold . . ." — Hamlet's father's ghost
"Thus the entire little drama, from crystallized carbon
and felled pine to this humble implement, to this
transparent thing, unfolds in a twinkle."
— Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things
"… a cardboard tube, more or less the same length as
the inner core of a toilet roll, but thicker. He frowned,
took the roll out, laid it on the desk and poked up it
with the butt end of a pencil. Something slid out.
It looked like a rolled-up black plastic dustbin liner;
but when he unfolded it, he recognised it as the funny
sheet thing he’d found in the strongroom and briefly
described as an Acme Portable Door, before losing
his nerve and changing it to something less facetious."
— Holt, Tom. The Portable Door . Orbit. Kindle Edition.
According to goodreads.com, the Holt book was
"first published March 6, 2003."
The June 14 book review from the previous post —
See the artist's page giving variations on the above image.
See also . . . .
(Continued from the previous post, Annals of Devolution)
The above seems an improved version of the
beach romp in the 2023 film of "The Portable Door."
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The War to End All Wars (2018)
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"Experience the magic of Mexico." — Delta vacations ad.
See also Midnight in the Garden (March 15, 2011)
and New Day Nina (September 22, 2011).
"… a cardboard tube, more or less the same length as
the inner core of a toilet roll, but thicker. He frowned,
took the roll out, laid it on the desk and poked up it
with the butt end of a pencil. Something slid out.
It looked like a rolled-up black plastic dustbin liner;
but when he unfolded it, he recognised it as the funny
sheet thing he’d found in the strongroom and briefly
described as an Acme Portable Door, before losing
his nerve and changing it to something less facetious."
— Holt, Tom. The Portable Door . Orbit. Kindle Edition.
According to goodreads.com, the Holt book was
"first published March 6, 2003."
Compare and contrast the "portable door" as a literary device
with the "tesseract" in A Wrinkle in Time (1962).
See also this journal on March 6, 2003.
On finite geometries . . .
"Although many of these structures are studied for
their geometrical importance, they are also of great
interest in other, more applied domains of mathematics."
— Remark from the metadata of a mathematical article
dated September 22, 2021
More applied domains . . .
"Sex Show at a Brothel" — This journal on September 22, 2021.
A scene from the "Badass Song" film mentioned in that post —
Another cinematic towel scene —
Earlier posts have mentioned a British version of my work.
It currently appears among many other images at . . .
https://www.bsswebsite.me.uk/Puzzlewebsite/for-puzzlers.html —
Related cinema for Hogwarts fans —
* The late John Nash might prefer the version "For Isadore."
Abigail Spencer in the "Timeless" Watergate episode
Less alone . . .
See also posts now tagged Crary Corner, and
Maureen Dowd today in The New York Times on The Trump Papers —
"It bespeaks a frailty, a need to be bolstered by talismanic items."
[Link added.]
" During his presidency, The Times reported, 'his aides began to refer to
the boxes full of papers and odds and ends he carted around with him
almost everywhere as the "beautiful mind" material. It was a reference to
the title of a book and movie depicting the life of John F. Nash Jr., the
mathematician with schizophrenia played in the film by Russell Crowe,
who covered his office with newspaper clippings, believing they held
a Russian code he needed to crack.' "
"He earned a doctorate at Harvard, joined the RAND Corporation
and began studying game theory as applied to crisis situations
and nuclear warfare. In the 1960s, he conferred on Washington’s
responses to the Cuban missile crisis and North Vietnamese
attacks on American ships in the Gulf of Tonkin.
By 1964, Mr. Ellsberg was an adviser to Defense Secretary
Robert S. McNamara."
— Robert D. McFadden in The New York Times this afternoon.
For McNamara in this journal, see (for instance) Groundhog Day 2006.
For the blue-black frame, a hat tip to Willard Motley.
See also the above date — 6 Nov 2021 — in this journal.
* See as well a Log24 search for Red and Gray .
Transcribed from a PDF:
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Received September 29, 2019, accepted October 15, 2019, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2949310
A Method for Determining
ZIYU WANG1 , XIAO ZENG1 , JINZHAO WU2,3, AND
1Big Data Research Center, School of Computer Science
2Guangxi Key Laboratory of Hybrid Computation and
3School of Computer and Electronic Information,
Corresponding authors:
This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation
ABSTRACT
INDEX TERMS Logic synthesis, Boolean functions, |
Meanwhile . . .
From the previous post . . .
A color analogy — The orange and black (Princeton colors) in the above
conference schedule suggest a recent screengeek image . . .
Related geek lore —
Continued from October 6, 2022 —
A paper from an August 2017 Melbourne conference
on artificial intelligence —
See as well a Log24 search for Boolean functions.
A check on the date of the above paper's presentation —
From this journal on that date —
Happy 10th birthday to the hashtag.
In memory of Cormac McCarthy, who reportedly
died today, here is a phrase by John Jeremiah Sullivan
in a NY Times review of McCarthy's 2022 novel
The Passenger —
"a reminder (just in time) of the elegance and force
of good McCarthy."
Sullivan also writes well. For instance, see the "pretty horses"
of this post's title.
"Does the expression 'generative pre-trained transformer'
mean anything to you?"
Update of 10 PM the same evening —
"If it’s possible to be two things at once,
I was both pathologically insecure and
intoxicated by the power that my newly
discovered desirability to men seemed
to have conferred on me."
Possible ‽
Ask Mark Wahlberg.
* See as well the September 1982 Kate Bush album.
Addendum of 10:50 AM June 11 —
My own concerns in September 1982 were
rather different —
A review by Robert Ghrist of a paper on aperiodic
Wang tilings suggests a search in this journal for Wang tiles.
A resulting image seems appropriate for today's posts,
which include a reference to a renowned Prada-wearer.
"She's like the wind." — Song lyric. See as well Hexagram 57.
See also Prescott Street in this journal.
Tom Wolfe on art theorists in The Painted Word (1975) :
"It is important to repeat that Greenberg and Rosenberg
did not create their theories in a vacuum or simply turn up
with them one day like tablets brought down from atop
Green Mountain or Red Mountain (as B. H. Friedman once
called the two men). As tout le monde understood, they
were not only theories but … hot news,
straight from the studios, from the scene."
Anthony Lane in The New Yorker on June 2, 2023 —
"The album cover was a minor but deliriously popular art form
that was limited not just by shape—a neat fit, incidentally, for
the square format favored by many modish photographers of
the sixties—but also by the prospect of its own inevitable death.
Technology gave, and technology hath taken away."
See as well a mountain along with red and green album covers
in this journal on June 8.
Some will prefer the green and red crystal from Melencolia I
(adapted from the uncolored original) on the cover of the
1948 edition of Doctor Faustus.
The colors surrounding Watson's body in the above
"bandeau" photo suggest a review. A search in this journal
for Green+Orange+Black yields . . .
In the above image, the "hard core of objectivity" is represented
by the green-and-white eightfold cube. The orange and black are,
of course, the Princeton colors.
"The quad gospellers may own the targum
but any of the Zingari shoolerim may pick a peck
of kindlings yet from the sack of auld hensyne."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/movies/
barry-newman-dead.html
An Actor Prepares . . .
See the previous post.
See also the film "Vanishing Point" discussed
in the above New York Times obituary.
Barry Newman's dies natalis is reportedly May 11.
See "On the Route" from that date in this journal.
A check of today's New Yorker penbots yields
an entertaining piece on pop culture by Sarah Larson:
Perhaps, in death's dream kingdom, there is some guidance from
the illustrator who reportedly did the book cover in the previous post —
one Hector Garrido.
"Operation Childlike Innocence, Phase One."
— Sarah Larson, quoted here on Sept. 5, 2015.
Garrido's dies natalis was reportedly 19 April, 2020.
Synchronology check — Log24 search: "Wittgenstein Easter."
1. A New York Times obituary from today
2. The name Caputo in this journal
3. Death and Venice: The Flyin' Lion
For further details, see a Log24 post from October 2002 and . . .
See as well today's previous post.
More-recent reading on different modalities:
"Microsoft believes a multimodal approach
paves the way for human-level AI."
As for "pattern simultaneity in the real world," note the March 1 date
of the above Ars Technica article, and some remarks here on March 1.
Related dramatic dialogue from FUBAR —
Hero — I guess I'll take the pill, and get it over with. (Dramatic music playing.)
Villain — This will be fun. (Music intensifies.) Cheers … Nothing's happening.
Hero — Come to think of it, I might have taken the antidote.
Read more at: https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/… .
Related synchronology check —
"You put the lime in the coconut . . ."
Art is magic delivered from
the lie of being truth.
— Theodor Adorno, Minima moralia,
London, New Left Books, 1974, p. 222
(First published in German in 1951.)
The director, Carol Reed, makes…
impeccable use of the beauty of black….
— V. B. Daniel on The Third Man
I see your ironical smile.
— Hans Reichenbach
Adorno, The Third Man, and Reichenbach
are illustrated below (l. to r.) above the names of
cities with which they are associated.
"It seems fitting that a handsome, professional and future-minded
space drama in fine color, like 'Marooned,' should open a new
jewel box of a theater, the Ziegfeld."
— Howard Thompson in The New York Times , Dec. 19, 1969
A related film tells of a real-life April 1970 sequel
to the 1969 film "Marooned."
Then there is my own "jewel box" picture with three horses . . .
For those whose only philosophy comes from song lyrics —
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See also … ADMAN PURSUED BY JEFFERSON AIRPLANE —
In memory of set designer Robin Wagner, winner of three
Tony awards, who reportedly died at 89 on May 29 —
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From Log24 on May 29
"When the men on the chessboard Don't take the Brown acid!
Sunday, May 28, 2023
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See as well Chess Set and Efficient Packing.
James Hillman
EGALITARIAN TYPOLOGIES
VERSUS THE PERCEPTION OF THE UNIQUE
“The kind of movement Olson urges is an inward deepening of the image,
an in-sighting of the superimposed levels of significance within it.
This is the very mode that Jung suggested for grasping dreams —
not as a sequence in time, but as revolving around a nodal complex.”
. . . Or, sometimes, as . . .
See posts tagged Weil Misery.
* Vide a New York Times obituary.
For the American Nomenklatura —
The obituary's 101 above refers to time ,
the Stanford page's below to space .
See The Eightfold Cube and . . .
Art is magic delivered from
the lie of being truth.
— Theodor Adorno, Minima moralia,
London, New Left Books, 1974, p. 222
(First published in German in 1951.)
The director, Carol Reed, makes…
impeccable use of the beauty of black….
— V. B. Daniel on The Third Man
I see your ironical smile.
— Hans Reichenbach
Adorno, The Third Man, and Reichenbach
are illustrated below (l. to r.) above the names of
cities with which they are associated.
"Boro makes Jim Jones look like Jim Henson."
— FUBAR, Netflix, Episode 1 (May 25, 2023)
"In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , Tom Wolfe writes about encountering
'a young psychologist,' 'Clifton Fadiman’s nephew, it turned out,' in the
waiting room of the San Mateo County jail. Fadiman and his wife were
'happily stuffing three I-Ching coins into some interminable dense volume*
of Oriental mysticism' that they planned to give Ken Kesey, the Prankster-
in-Chief whom the FBI had just nabbed after eight months on the lam.
Wolfe had been granted an interview with Kesey, and they wanted him to
tell their friend about the hidden coins. During this difficult time, they
explained, Kesey needed oracular advice."
— Tim Doody in The Morning News web 'zine on July 26, 2012
Related material — Brown Acid.
* The volume Wolfe mentions was, according to Fadiman, the I Ching.
In memory of a public intellectual who reportedly argued in favor of
"a universal identity system" and died at 94 on May 31 —
Detail from an illustration linked to here on May 31 —
The above detail from today's previous post suggests a review —
Those who are not content to be merely entertained may consult
the date of the above image . . . June 24, 2008.
A website by today's MIT commencement speaker —
* MIT-related news from May 19, 1961,
in Warren, Pennsylvania . . .
* "The Long Dark Trail" is the title of a recent film
directed by a later resident of 505 Market Street.
"Finite geometry explains the surprising symmetry properties
of some simple graphic designs." … Good summary.
"He stopped at a bench where people could catch buses
from Somewhere to Elsewhere." — John Crowley, 1981
Hat tip to Stephanie Dick, now at Simon Fraser U.
In memory of a co-founder of Hollywood's "Magic Castle"
who reportedly died at 92 on Sunday . . .
From posts that were tagged "Blake Tour" on Sunday —
See John Baez this morning on Galois. Note that Baez's
report of Galois's dies natalis is in error.
From the Feast of St. Nicholas, 2022 —
"Does the phrase 'vinegar and brown paper'
mean anything to you?"
See also other posts tagged Up the Hill.
"When the men on the chessboard
get up and tell you where to go . . . ."
Don't take the Brown acid!
In memory of philosopher Ian Hacking, who
reportedly died on May 10, some Log24 posts
are now tagged "Shadow Hacking."
Related material — Plato's Ghost in this journal, and . . .
… who reportedly died on May 25 — Posts now tagged Blake Tour.
The previous post suggests a review . . .
The above remarks on topology are, of course, about as well-informed
as the remarks of Barry Mazur on locales .
For the title, see Saddle in this journal.
Friday, October 21, 2022
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"William Blake's statement in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
'Eternity is in love with the productions of time' is an adumbration
of the paradoxology of the game of hide-and-seek that Non-duality
is playing with and in celebration of itself in Ia divina commedia of
this night of its dream."
— Joseph Campbell in "The Inner Reaches of Outer Space" (©1986)
Related material from a Log24 search for "inscapes4"—
(In memory of Robert Zimmer, a mathematician
who reportedly died yesterday)
This journal on the above date —
Abstract: Boolean functions on a triangular grid.
Note: It seems that the above rearrangement of a square array
of hyperplanes to a triangular array of hyperplanes, which was
rather arbitrarily constructed to have nice symmetries, will
answer a question posed here on Dec. 15, 2015.
The reference to "Magic: The Gathering" in the previous post
suggests a review of "gathering" tales that I personally prefer —
"So far, AIs produce abstract, almost surreal ideas, that
may lead you somewhere but have no consistent purpose."
— Greg Rutkowski, quoted on May 8, 2023, as below:
Source Code —
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What if the AIs are named Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof?
Yesterday's "Electric Avenue" post suggests an image by Rutkowski
from "Magic: The Gathering" . . .
… who reportedly died yesterday — See April 11, 2019.
CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE) — It is with profound sadness
that Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR) mourns the death of its
Founder and Chairman, Samuel Zell, who died today at age 81.
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By Allison Morrow, CNN Updated 12:38 PM EDT, Thu May 18, 2023 Sam Zell, the Chicago real-estate magnate whose knack for buying up distressed assets turned him into a billionaire and earned him the nickname “grave dancer,” died on Thursday, his company said. He was 81. Equity Residential, the company he founded decades ago, did not provide a cause of death but described Zell as an “iconic figure in real estate and throughout the corporate world.” Among his wide-ranging portfolio of investments were distressed assets in real estate and in media, including an ultimately disastrous bet on the Tribune Company. Zell had a personal net worth of $5.9 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Zell had a penchant for scooping up cheap real estate and selling it later at a profit, a strategy he outlined in a 1978 article titled “The Grave Dancer,” which became his nickname in the industry. “I was dancing on the skeletons of other people’s mistakes,” he wrote. |
"Martin told us about his work on machine learning…."
— Peter J. Cameron reports on last week's (May 10 and 11)
London Combinatorics Colloquia 2023.
Related material — Boolean Functions in this journal and in a book
from May 16, 2011 . . .
Some historical background on machine learning —
https://tripleampersand.org/kernelled-connections-perceptron-diagram/ .
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