Log24

Monday, January 31, 2022

Pace  the lacquered glitter”

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Celebrity News

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More precisely . . .

Sunday, January 30, 2022

Rock Music

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"All I need is a miracle" — Song from "Spencer" (2021)

Sandringham MOG

"Risin' up to the challenge of our rival" — "Rocky III" (1982)

Saturday, January 29, 2022

As If

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Continued from this journal's posts of March 1, 2021 —

As If

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”                                            . . . It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir.”

— Wallace Stevens, “The Plain Sense of Things

For such a savoir, see Cube School.

See as well the Stevens online concordance.

Comments Off on As If

Annals of Typography

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"Time past and time future . . ."  — T. S. Eliot

California Dreamin’

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The Time of the Season

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"Tell it to me slowly" — Song lyric

<time datetime="2022-01-28T23:38:40.498Z">

Annie Rauwerda yesterday —

"It's an exciting time for magical fruit."

Bombogenesis

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On the Diamond-Theorem Group* of Order 322,560

Taormina and Wendland have often discussed this group, which they
call "overarching" within the context of their Mathieu-moonshine research.

This seems to be the first time they have attempted to explore its geometric
background as an affine group, apart from its role as "the octad group" in the
researches of R. T. Curtis and John Conway on the large Mathieu group M24.

* See a Log24 post of June 1, 2013.

Friday, January 28, 2022

Escape from a Cartoon Graveyard

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I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon

Thursday, January 27, 2022

The Lexicographic Octad Generator

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A Lexicographic Basis for the Binary Golay Code:

Brouwer and Guven — "Long ago," in 
"The generating rank of the space of short vectors
in the Leech lattice mod 2," by 
Andries Brouwer & Cicek Guven,
https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/preprints/udim24a.pdf —

"One checks by computer" that this is a basis:

000000000000000011111111
000000000000111100001111
000000000011001100110011
000000000101010101010101
000000001001011001101001
000000110000001101010110
000001010000010101100011
000010010000011000111010
000100010001000101111000
001000010001001000011101
010000010001010001001110
100000010001011100100100

(Copied from the Brouwer-Guven paper)

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Adlam at Harvard — 
"Constructing the Extended Binary Golay Code,"
by Ben Adlam, Harvard University, August 9, 2011,
https://fliphtml5.com/llqx/wppz/basic —

Adlam also asserts, citing a reference, that this same
set of twelve vectors is a basis:

000000000000000011111111
000000000000111100001111
000000000011001100110011
000000000101010101010101
000000001001011001101001
000000110000001101010110
000001010000010101100011
000010010000011000111010
000100010001000101111000
001000010001001000011101
010000010001010001001110
100000010001011100100100

(Copied from the Adlam paper)
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Sources —

Background for Log24 posts on 'Embedding Change'

"One checks by computer" —

At http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/calc/ —

> V24 := VectorSpace(FiniteField(2), 24);
> G := sub< V24 |  
> [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1],
> [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1],
> [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,0,1,1],
> [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1],
> [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,1,0,0,1],
> [0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,1,0],
> [0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,1,1,0,0,0,1,1],
> [0,0,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,1,0],
> [0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0],
> [0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,1],
> [0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,1,1,1,0],
> [1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,1,1,1,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,0]>;       
> Dimension(G);
12

Malt Does More than Milton Can

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Later . . .

Scholium for Doctor Faustus, suggested by
a search in this journal for Robert  Mann

"Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness."

Four Quartets

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Pundit Obit

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The Embedding

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Continues.

Twelve basis vectors, in lexicographic order, for the binary Golay-code space

For further details,
click on the monolith.

Hello Darkness

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Comment on a television series —

“ It is unfortunate that HBO, social media,
television program reviewers,
and paid advertising have chosen to
refer to the show as ‘groundbreaking’…. "

Quoted at TMZ, 1/26/2022 1:00 AM PT

"Light is the left hand of darkness" — Fictional poem

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Thank You, Tucker Carlson.

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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-war-russia-ukraine

The Zen Omen

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Helen Mirren with plastic Gankyil .

Monday, January 24, 2022

Show and Tell in the Heart Sutra

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   "Red and Yellow, Blue and Green"

Show and Tell . . . Bicoastal Version

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Bob and Carol

Aesthetics Lesson

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From Log24 on New Year's Eve 2021

Related aesthetics —

Facilis Descensus

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From "Glamour" in this journal —

Essence of Noir

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"… the essence of what has come to be known as film noir …." —

Related material — Plaid  in this journal.

Sunday, January 23, 2022

Sweet 16th Puzzle

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Diamond brackets  for enthusiasts of Nolanism

<span class="meta_txt date">
<time datetime="2022-01-22T01:00:00Z">
Published 2 days ago
</time>
</span>

Related Log24 post —

In Memory of Dan Einstein

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Einstein, a former operator of independent record labels, reportedly
died at 61 on Jan. 15 in Nashville.

See as well a record label in this  journal from the eve of his death —

— and an independent work of graphic art, also from 6515 Sunset Blvd.

220114-MadLab_Coffee-Dope_Book-cropped.jpg

Related art . . . Test Patterns (May 10, 2014).

Apperception for Newton

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"So we beat on, boats against the current…"
The Great Gatsby

Thandie Newton in "Reminiscence" (2021) —

The above Screen Rant article is from August 20, 2021.

From that same date —

Saturday, January 22, 2022

Chevrons for Hazel

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From "Made for Love" (2021) — Lyle Herringbone:

Alternate choice, with chevrons —

"Keep back 500 feet" . . . . Or not.

Chevrons

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To Phrase a Coin

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In memory of numismatist Harvey Stack, who reportedly
died at 93 on January 3rd —  Posts tagged Stacked Ensemble.

“Adapting our powers of apperception”

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The title phrase is from the Friday update at the end of
Thursday's "New-Age Trinity" post.

It comes from a November 2017 doctoral thesis at Harvard.

Related philosophical insights —

"Bulk apperception" in this  journal, inspired by Maeve of Westworld:

Friday, January 21, 2022

Update of Jan. 20 “New-Age Trinity” Post

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See the update on Grietzer at the end of that post.

Thursday, January 20, 2022

New-Age Trinity

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"Taken together, vibemood, and energy  formed
something like a loose philosophical system.
They presented the world as a swirl of forces
that eluded capture in rational thought, but that
could nevertheless be acutely sensed and even
influenced with the right kind of effort."

— Mitch Therieau in The Drift , Jan. 19, 2022 —

https://www.thedriftmag.com/vibe-mood-energy/ .

See as well Pacific Rimming and Black Sparrow.

Related cinematic lore:

Cailee Spaeny and The Drift in "Pacific Rim: Uprising," as well as . . .

Related tune:   "Gimme the Beat Boys."

________________________________________________________

Update of 4:16 PM ET Friday, Jan. 21, 2021 —

From https://dash.harvard.edu/
bitstream/handle/1/39988028/
GRIETZER-DISSERTATION-2017.pdf

Ambient Meaning: Mood, Vibe, System

A dissertation presented by Peli Grietzer
to The Department of Comparative Literature
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in
the subject of Comparative Literature,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
November 2017 —

[Edited to emphasize key notions] 

"On the picture that I am suggesting, there exists a reciprocity  between

the structure of our sensibility or sensible cognition (system),

the structure of our affective life or social experience (mood),

and the structure of our social-material performance or production (style/vibe)

— a reciprocity whose approximate equilibrium or ‘metastable state’ binds
the
cognitive, affective, and material aspects of life into a coherent lifeworld
or ‘totality.’ One way to tell the story of this reciprocity is as follows. The system
of our sensibility—our faculty of sensuous cognition that discloses objects, properties,
and patterns—recapitulates the structure of the social-material world. We continuously
calibrate our sensibility by attuning it to our social-material world’s dominant patterns
and forms, adapting our powers of apperception to the task of navigating our
social-material world." (Pp. 145-146.)

Compare and contrast the following trinities:

Related tune — Meat Loaf at the Ryman"Two out of three ain't bad."

Vieux Carré

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Tevis on chess — 'The squares have names'

'Last Night in Soho' ad

Cullinane, Epiphany 1989, I Ching chessboard, lower right'

"Aooo! " — Warren Zevon

The Solomon Pill

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"Howard Solomon was building the pharmaceutical company
Forest Laboratories, not by manufacturing drugs but by
licensing them. In his search for deals in the United States and
Europe, he learned about citalopram, a Danish antidepressant."

Richard Sandomir, New York Times , Friday, Jan. 14, 2022

" '… he’d talk about Verdi writing "Falstaff" in his 80s,' Andrew Solomon
said. ' "Imagine that," he’d say, "in his 80s, he wrote some of the greatest
music ever written." That was the path he hoped to follow.' ”

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Clap for the Wolfman . . .

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(at the Church of St. Frank).

Tangled Up . . . Continues.

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Annals of Meta-Reality:   Welcome to . . .

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The TENET Prom

In Search Of . . .

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Window of Croft House, 326 N. LaBrea, Los Angeles

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

LA Story

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November 2020, billboard at La Brea Chevron —  His Dark Materials :

December 2020, same billboard — TENET :

November 2021,  Croft House to the above Chevron station :

"All we want are the facts." — Jack Webb

Reviews

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Plays well with others —

Not so much —

Wares for Sam Levinson …

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And Cal Jacobs.

Update of 11:48 AM ET Jan. 18 —

The above images might accompany a presentation of  Bialystock Geometry.

Monday, January 17, 2022

Finest Trick

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"The Magician’s finest trick was to
dismantle the pretensions of genius
while preserving his own lofty stature." 

Alex Ross in The New Yorker , Jan. 17, 2022

Related material —

Meanwhile . . .

Prime Matter

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IMAGE- Excerpt from 'The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas' by John F. Wippel

Ian J. Thompson7 Dec. 2009

Quantum mechanics describes the probabilities of actual outcomes in terms of a wave function, or at least of a quantum state of amplitudes that varies with time. The public always asks what the wave function is , or what the amplitudes are amplitudes of . Usually, we reply that the amplitudes are ‘probability amplitudes’, or that the wave function is a ‘probability wave function’, but neither answer is ontologically satisfying since probabilities are numbers , not stuff . We have already rehearsed the objections to the natural world being made out of numbers, as these are pure forms. In fact, ‘waves’, ‘amplitudes’ and ‘probabilities’ are all  forms, and none of them can be substances. So, what are quantum objects made of: what stuff ?

According to Heisenberg [6], the quantum probability waves are “a quantitative formulation of the concept of ‘dynamis’, possibility, or in the later Latin version, ‘potentia’, in Aristotle’s philosophy. The concept of events not determined in a peremptory manner, but that the possibility or ‘tendency’ for an event to take place has a kind of reality—a certain intermediate layer of reality, halfway between the massive reality of matter and the intellectual reality of the idea or the image—this concept plays a decisive role in Aristotle’s philosophy. In modern quantum theory this concept takes on a new form; it is formulated quantitatively as probability and subjected to mathematically expressible laws of nature.” Unfortunately Heisenberg does not develop this interpretation much beyond the sort of generality of the above statements, and the concept of ‘potentiality’ remains awkwardly isolated from much of his other thought on this subject [7]. It is unclear even what he means by ‘potentia’.

Reference

Heisenberg, W. 1961 On Modern Physics , London: Orion Press.

Notes

[6] W. Heisenberg, ‘Planck’s discovery and the philosophical problems of atomic physics’, pp. 3-20 in Heisenberg (1961).

[7] Heisenberg, for example, brings into his thought on quantum physics the Kantian phenomena/noumena distinction, as well as some of Bohr’s ideas on ‘complementarity’ in experimental arrangements.

Heisenberg Revisited

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Click to enlarge:

See as well Klein Quadric  in this  journal.

Tangled Up in California

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A song lyric linked to here recently —

"I love you, Eddie,
but so does Betty" 

— suggests a musical response:

"This time we almost made
our poem rhyme, didn't we?"

Recent remarks by the author of the response:

Sunday, January 16, 2022

O’Hara vs. West

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"You see, Malloy, I'm writing a novel about Los Angeles….
It's a fantastic place, you know, Malloy…. It has a Spanish name,
with religious Roman Catholic connotations…. And yet, Malloy,
consider this: the really fantastic thing about it is that it's the
crystallization of the ordinary, cheap ordinary American.
The people. The politics. The cults…. And I'm going to put it
in a book…."

— Hope of Heaven, by John O'Hara (1938)

The Malloy character perhaps represents O'Hara, and the
speaker in the passage above, Nathanael West.  The planned
book is perhaps The Day of the Locust , by West (1939).

The opening of Miss Lonelyhearts , an earlier work by West —

The Miss Lonelyhearts of The New York Post-Dispatch  (Are-you-in-trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard. On it a prayer had been printed by Shrike, the feature editor.

Soul of Miss L, glorify me.
Body of Miss L, nourish me.
Blood of Miss L, intoxicate me.
Tears of Miss L, wash me.
Oh good Miss L, excuse my plea,
And hide me in your heart,
And defend me from mine enemies.
Help me, Miss L, help me, help me.
In sæcula sæculorum. Amen.

Although the deadline was less than a quarter of an hour away, he was still working on his leader. He had gone as far as: “Life is worth while, for it is full of dreams and peace, gentleness and ecstasy, and faith that burns like a clear white flame on a grim dark altar.” But he found it impossible to continue. The letters were no longer funny. He could not go on finding the same joke funny thirty times a day for months on end. And on most days he received more than thirty letters, all of them alike, stamped from the dough of suffering with a heart-shaped cookie knife.

This post was suggested by an obituary in tonight's online
New York Times and by the German nickname — Würger ,
in English: Shrike — of a WWII German fighter plane
mentioned in that obituary. 

“The Aim Was Song” — Robert Frost

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Tangled Up in Blue . . . Continues.

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"In Der Teufel frisst Fliegen gilt es,
eine russische Prinzessin im Exil zu retten,
während der Geist eines wahnsinnigen Serienmörders
die Stadt heimsucht." — www.cliquenabend.de/spiele/…

"First we take Manhattan . . . ." — Leonard Cohen

Space

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"Leave a space." — Stoppard, "Jumpers."

"Read something that means something." — The New Yorker

Related material — Bialystock Configurations :

Malgorzata Prazmowska and Krzysztof Prazmowski
University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
malgpraz@math.uwb.edu.pl and krzypraz@math.uwb.edu.pl

Saturday, January 15, 2022

Izzy

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Superimposed Figures

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A David Mamet line from last night's 11:02 PM ET post

"Something to do with an early computer."  This suggests . . .

"The metaphor for metamorphosis no keys unlock." — Cullinane, 1986

See as well different  Franz.

Friday, January 14, 2022

Trick Question

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In David Mamet's TV movie "Phil Spector," set prior to Spector's
first, 2007, trial, Helen Mirren holds up a 45 rpm record and asks
a younger lawyer . . .

"Now, what is this?" 

Actually, it's something to do with 6515 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles:

A graphic image from the current  business at 6515 Sunset —

220114-MadLab_Coffee-Dope_Book-cropped.jpg

Related art . . . See Test Patterns (May 10, 2014).

Infectious

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The record-label address in the previous post suggests . . .

"The infectious '1650 Broadway Medley,' a mash-up 
of the sounds from the era, spanning 'Yakety Yak,' to
'Love Potion No. 9,' is also joyously performed by the
ensemble." 

Some prefer more rural tunes —

"I want to ride to the ridge where the West commences . . ."

Thursday, January 13, 2022

(Belated) Meditation for New Year’s Day, 2022

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Hexagram 51:

"I woke last night to the sound of thunder,
How far off, I sat and wondered.
Started humming a song from 1962.
Ain't it funny how the night moves?"

See also . . .

'Loop De Loop,' Johnny Thunder, Diamond Records, 1962

Architectural Record: The Dots Came

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Adapted

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Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Architectural Metaphors … Continued

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(See yesterday's post Architectural Metaphors.)

In memory of Ronnie Spector, who may or may not now be
in rock heaven with songwriter Ellie Greenwich.

Greenwich reportedly died on Wed., Aug. 26, 2009. 
Material related to that date —

“Fun with Math” — i.e.,  Cocktails with Bullshit

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From an article published in the print edition of
the January 17, 2022, New Yorker  issue, with
the headline “Fun with Math”  —

. . . .

Marilyn Simons, who has a Ph.D. in economics, said that her husband, Jim, a financier and a former mathematician, doesn’t like puzzles: “He says that if he works that hard he wants to get a theorem out of it.”

Winkler began the evening’s program. The first course of math, delivered during the first course of dinner (a scattering of salads), was a statistics starter called Simpson’s paradox, which explains how apparent biases in large samples can disappear in smaller ones. A famous example: For the University of California at Berkeley’s graduate programs in 1975, over all, men were admitted at a higher rate than women, but, program by program, women were admitted at a higher rate.

“I think that, to a lot of us who even think  we know statistics, the way we process statistics is not deeply informed,” Simons said.

. . . .

Winkler let loose with the last official mind bender, a gambling thought experiment involving a fictitious couple named Alice and Bob, who are famous in math circles. Each of them has a biased coin—fifty-one-per-cent chance of heads, forty-nine-per-cent chance of tails. They each start with a hundred dollars, flipping the coin and betting against the bank on the outcome. Alice calls heads every time; Bob calls tails. The puzzle: Given that they both go broke, which one is more likely to have gone broke first?

. . . .

Most of the diners guessed Bob, but the correct answer was Alice. 

. . . .

 

Related material —

Simpson's Paradox:

"The investigation showed that males were 1.8 times more likely
to be admitted to Graduate School than females in 1973. Initially
it appeared that women were discriminated against in the selection
process. However, when admissions were re-examined at individual
Departments of the School, admission tended to be better for women
than men in four of six Departments. This contradiction or paradox
tells us that the association between admission and gender was
dependent upon on Department." 

— https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29484824/

Alice and Bob:

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Tangled Up in Blue

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Euler and the Quantum Latin Square

Architectural Metaphors

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A house divided —

Pythagorean proof figure adapted from Wikipedia

Update of 12:50 PM ET Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022 —

Monday, January 10, 2022

“Who actually believes this crap?” — Loki

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In memory of a prisoner who died this morning at 
San Joaquin General Hospital in California,
an image from the Feast of San Joaquin, 2021 —

“The drill of a submarine” — Wallace Stevens

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A somewhat more realistic tale —

Dramarama —

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Restoration Comedy

See as well . . .

Sunday, January 9, 2022

Adventures in Meta-Reality . . .

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Now at The Jungle Room  J3 and Thandie!

"J3, this looks like a job for Thandie."

Review

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Another perspective:  Log24, December 2004.

Night Clerk Meets Ready Player* . . . Continues

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* See Night Clerk in this  journal.

Saturday, January 8, 2022

Royal Society

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It is now past midnight in England.
Happy birthday, Kate Middleton.

I personally find another J9 more interesting.

In Memoriam:  Lyricist Marilyn Bergman

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Bergman reportedly died today at 93.

Throwing Shapes

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A book I saw in a Harvard Square bookstore
in the early 1960s The same store in which
I saw The Shape of Time

Looking for "an easier, softer way"? Try a different Perlis . . .

The 64   (A sequel to The Eight)

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For a rather different approach to 64, see Geometry of the I Ching .

Nah, I think I’ll skip Deadline.

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 ♫ "It's only a Harvest moon . . . ." 

— Adapted from the great American songbook.

Impolite* 64

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http://www.log24.com/log/pix18/180810-Huston-chessboard-post-100710.jpg

* I.e., a power of two.

Friday, January 7, 2022

How Deep the Rabbit Hole

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See as well "Bulk Apperception ."

Blackboard Jungle Meets Asphalt Jungle

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NYT:'datePublished':'2022-01-07T15:49:13.000Z'

"So we beat on, boats against the current."

Countries for Old Men

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A search* for the phrase "rex Impolitor" yields . . .

* Suggested by the mathematical phrase "impolite number" —

Seven!

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(A sequel to the previous post, "What's Up?")

From a search in this journal for "Theories of Truth" —

"According to a platonist  about arithmetic,
the truth of the sentence ‘7 is prime’ entails
the existence of an abstract object , the number 7.
This object is abstract because it has no spatial
or temporal location, and is causally inert."

Alex Miller in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 

"Causally inert? " . . . See Maori Chess.

Thursday, January 6, 2022

What’s Up?

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Euclidean Epiphany

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Pythagorean proof figure adapted from Wikipedia

See also some related poetic remarks.

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

The Casting Couch and the Killer Clown … Exclusive!

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The Twelve Steps of Christmas

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See as well "Prescott Street" in this journal.

Tuesday, January 4, 2022

A Cold Coming

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Journey of the Magi*

“Last we consider the time of their coming,
the season of the year. It was no summer progress.
A cold coming they had of it at this time of the year,
just the worst time of the year to take a journey,
and specially a long journey. The ways deep,
the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off,
in solstitio brumali , the very dead of winter.”

— Lancelot Andrewes, Nativity sermon, 1622

* Title of a poem by T. S. Eliot that paraphrases the above.

Update of Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022 —

"The sun farthest off . . . ."

Perihelion Day 2022: From Date to Meaning, Everything To Know About the Day When Earth Is Closest to the Sun Every Year!

Perihelion Day 2022 (File Image)

"As the celestial events for the new year have begun recently,
the Perihelion Day 2022 has finally arrived. It's the moment
when Earth swings closest to the sun once every year and this
closest Earth-Sun distance is called perihelion. This year, the
Perihelion Day will occur on January 4, Tuesday."

Katz at Bard

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See as well . . . 

Finale of Seem posts:

"Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream."

— Wallace Stevens

Monday, January 3, 2022

Nine Perfect Coordinates:  Ex Fano Continues.

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Update of Jan. 4, 2022 —

"Nine Perfect Strangers was certainly not helped by premiering
just days after HBO aired the finale of The White Lotus,
the summer’s word-of-mouth TV hit that’s also a stacked
ensemble of strangers gathering at a lush hotel, and a much more
scathing, focused and riveting satire . . . ."

Adrian Horton in The Guardian , Aug. 25, 2021

Sunday, January 2, 2022

Game Theory

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See also posts now tagged Riveting.

Plan 9 Sermon

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http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="October+9"+Apollo

Annals of Modernism:  URGrid

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The above New Yorker  art illustrates the 2×4  structure of
an octad  in the Miracle Octad Generator  of R. T. Curtis.

Enthusiasts of simplicity may note how properties of this eight-cell
2×4  grid are related to those of the smaller six-cell 3×2  grid:

See Nocciolo  in this journal and . . .

Further reading on the six-set – eight-set relationship:

the diamond theorem correlation

Saturday, January 1, 2022

“So we beat on, boats against the current”

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Penetrating the Concept

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Clean Lines

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Illustration of clean lines —

Related material — Abstraction and Structure  (Log24, Nov. 29, 2021).

Friday, December 31, 2021

Aesthetics in Academia

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Related art — The non-Rubik 3x3x3 cube —

The above structure illustrates the affine space of three dimensions
over the three-element finite (i.e., Galois) field, GF(3). Enthusiasts
of Judith Brown's nihilistic philosophy may note the "radiance" of the
13 axes of symmetry within the "central, structuring" subcube.

I prefer the radiance  (in the sense of Aquinas) of the central, structuring 
eightfold cube at the center of the affine space of six dimensions over
the two-element field GF(2).

Fiction for Enola

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From a Log24 search for "Strand" —

Related literary remarks —

From Didion’s Play It As It Lays :

Everything goes.  I am working very hard at
not thinking about how everything goes. 
I watch a hummingbird, throw the I Ching
but never read the coins, keep my mind in the now.
— Page 8

From Joni Mitchell

"Don't it always seem to go . . . ."

From Wallace Stevens:

"Let be be finale of seem."

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Antidote to Chaos?

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Some formal symmetry —

"… each 2×4 "brick" in the 1974 Miracle Octad Generator
of R. T. Curtis may be constructed by folding  a 1×8 array
from Turyn's 1967 construction of the Golay code.

Folding a 2×4 Curtis array yet again  yields
the 2x2x2 eightfold cube ."

— Steven H. Cullinane on April 19, 2016 — The Folding.

Related art-historical remarks:

The Shape of Time  (Kubler, Yale U.P., 1962).

See yesterday's post The Thing 

Stranger Things Christmas Decor

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The Wake

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A film referenced at the end of the May 10, 2020, post

Film Theory Love Call

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

The Thing

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Related cultural remarks — Magic for Liars.

Throw Some Shapes

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Iain Aitchison on symmetric generation of M24

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Da Capo*

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* Illustration from a related 2003 Log24 post

Da Capo

“The story bent and climbed and went into weird areas.
For instance, at one time Simon Peter was a cave-dweller;
at another, he only appeared in other characters’ dreams….”

— Keri Hulme on The Bone People

Shape as Form (Not the Michael Fried Version)

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For those who prefer form constants  to shape constants 

Ready for Her Closeup

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Sure You Can.

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Also by Parul Sehgal . . .

"I first met Gaitskill on an August afternoon at her apartment
in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She is beautiful, startlingly so —
straight-­backed and contained, her body a wick of tensile energy,
her hair a silvery blond. She offered me sparkling water and
hunted down a lime — ‘'I can’t serve it to you naked,' she said . . . ."

— https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/magazine/
mary-gaitskill-and-the-life-unseen.html

As for "the life unseen" . . .
https://www.onlineclarity.co.uk/reading/hexagrams/59-dispersing/

Annals of Plot Mechanism:  Braided Revelations

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"We all know the song . . ."
— Neil Diamond, "Love on the Rocks"

From "The Case Against the Trauma Plot" by Parul Sehgal,
The New Yorker , December 27, 2021 —

"With the trauma plot, the logic goes: Evoke the wound and we will believe that a body, a person, has borne it.

Such belief can be difficult to sustain. The invocation of trauma promises access to some well-guarded bloody chamber; increasingly, though, we feel as if we have entered a rather generic motel room, with all the signs of heavy turnover. The second-season revelation of Ted Lasso’s childhood trauma only reduces him; his peculiar, almost sinister buoyancy is revealed to be merely a coping mechanism. He opens up about his past to his therapist just as another character does to her mother—their scenes are intercut—and it happens that both of their traumatic incidents occurred on the same day. The braided revelations make familiar points about fathers (fallible), secrecy (bad), and banked resentments (also bad), but mostly expose the creakiness of a plot mechanism."

In context —

The Redgrave Pill

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"Redgrave proceeded to focus on the end of Blue Nights ,
and Didion’s determination to maintain momentum after
the death of Quintana, when she and Redgrave mounted
their production of The Year of Magical Thinking . Here,
St John the Divine became a setting in the narrative of
Blue Nights  yet again – this time, as Quintana’s final resting
place in St Ansgar’s Chapel within the cathedral."

The feast of St. Ansgar is Feb. 3. See that date this year.

Related song lyric from "Finian's Rainbow" —

Necessity,
That's the maximum that a minimum thing could be,
There's nothing lower than less unless it's Necessity.

Monday, December 27, 2021

Dated

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Undated

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An undated photo of a book signing for 'Rogue Warrior'

“Sharp Objects” Director Dead at 58

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"Jean-Marc Vallée has died suddenly at age 58.

See as well a post from Joan Didion's Dec. 5th birthday.

"You look in her eyes, the music begins to play" 
— Eagles, "New Kid in Town"

 

Sunday, December 26, 2021

Pillow Talk:  Objects of Beauty

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See also Backstory (November 22, 2010).

For Agent Smith

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From Screen Rant — "datePublished": "2021-12-23T22:40:34Z" —

Related material —

James Hillman, "Egalitarian Typologies Versus 
The Perception of the Unique"  at . . .

http://www.compilerpress.ca/Competitiveness/
Anno/Anno%20Hillman%20Egal%201.htm
 .

Musical accompaniment for Storyville — Iko Iko
lyrics and background and performance

Saturday, December 25, 2021

Opposites Attract?

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The New Yorker  has illustrated Smith's remarks
with the following art print from 2001 —

An imposition of a public  space on a writer:

For the nature of the public  space, see Geometry of the I Ching .

Welcome to Hollywood Homicide:  Bosch Greets Shaft

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Related material — Postman.

Art and Form

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"If so much information is needed
to identify their expressive content,
then it’s obvious that the pictures don’t
effectively communicate on their own."

An article selected for
Arts & Letters Daily today:

Friday, December 24, 2021

“A Reasonable Season”

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:08 am

Slow Art: The 24th Frame

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For Your Consideration:

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Sunny Side Down

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Crossing Pico Boulevard from the site of the previous post

♫  "I like to walk in the shade, with the blues on parade . . . ."

— Adapted from the great American songbook.

Thursday, December 23, 2021

Refrain

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From Didion’s Play It As It Lays :

Everything goes.  I am working very hard at
not thinking about how everything goes. 
I watch a hummingbird, throw the I Ching
but never read the coins, keep my mind in the now.
— Page 8

From Play It As It Lays :

I lie here in the sunlight, watch the hummingbird. 
This morning I threw the coins in the swimming pool,
and they gleamed and turned in the water in such a way
that I was almost moved to read them.  I refrained.
— Page 214

Didion and her husand John Gregory Dunne
wrote the screenplay for the 1976 version of
"A Star is Born."

"You'll glitter and gleam so . . . ."  

Not So Anonymized

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Uh-Oh.

Anonymized Meme

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Dubin” ?

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"Sense of Place" —

"Place" —

Compare and Contrast

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See as well Eliza Doolittle Day, 2018.

Hood Ornament

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"Rave on." — Buddy Holly

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Not a Hood Ornament

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The Houghton Line

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(Lily  Houghton, that is, at the end of Jungle Cruise .)

(HORN TOOTS)

LILY — Ready for your first driving lesson?

FRANK — I think so, Pants.

LILY — I hope you know what you’re getting yourself into here, Frank.

FRANK — A car.

LILY — Oh, your jokes. They will be the death of me.

Related material:  The previous post, Sunday's Woke Joke, this morning's
online New York Times  obituary for a musical-comedy star, and a famous
song lyric detailing "where you'll find me."

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