Friday, January 19, 2024
Desert Doodle
Today's Windows 11 Doodle —
Related material — A Coachella Valley film festival and . . .
Click the above to enlarge the Hagopian slide.
For Smith's remarks on Bach and Cullinane, see
http://finitegeometry.org/sc/4/fugue.pdf.
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Visionary Award
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♫ “As Time Goes By . . .”
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Thursday, January 18, 2024
True Detectives at the Hometown of
Matthew McConaughey and Dale Evans
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Matthew McConaughey and Dale Evans
Matthew McConaughey and Dale Evans
But Seriously: Mathematics for Davos
Click image to enlarge.
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Woodstock Hamlet
From a New York Times obituary yesterday —
"… the thoroughly debauched, terrifyingly prolific and
mercifully fictional P.D.Q. Bach died on Tuesday at his home
in Bearsville, a hamlet outside Woodstock, N.Y. He was 88."
Later in the obituary, the real name of P.D.Q. Bach —
"… Johann Peter Schickele was born on July 17, 1935, in Ames, Iowa…."
"Alas, poor Johann."
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Norton Simon Flashback
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Hurly Burly: Code for Something
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https://subslikescript.com/movie/Hurlyburly-119336 — So what do you want to do?
You want to go to your place, You want to go to a sex motel? They got waterbeds.
They got porn I'm hungry. You want a Jack-in-the-Box? I love Jack-in-the-Box. Is that code for something? What? What? Is what code for what? I don't know. I don't know the goddamn code! |
The Didion Logo:
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
See as well a discussion of
Meta's new (2023) Threads logo,
illustrated below.
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For the Graduate Schol of Design:
The Crimson Crawl
I prefer Inside Daisy Clover.
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The Crimson Crawl
The Crimson Crawl
The Shadow Self
Not just on Instagram …
And not just in this century.
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Art Selfies
marcela 211110
josefine 200815
emily 240113
steven 240115
See as well "Night, Youth, Paris and the Moon" by John Collier.
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Monday, January 15, 2024
Storylines Colliding: The Cornfield Paradox
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Foursquare Variations
From Encyclopedia of Mathematics —
The above images from the history of mathematics might be
useful at some future point for illustrating academic hurly-burly.
Related reading . . .
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Sunday, January 14, 2024
Saturday, January 13, 2024
Looking Carefully
From Thursday, January 11 —
“Looking carefully at Golay’s code
is like staring into the sun.”
Or at Jenna Ortega in a Valentino dress —
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Xmas Pattern
Found on the Web today —
Earlier . . .
Thursday, August 10, 2023
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Related entertainment starring Martin Freeman —
Related Art —
See as well The Diamond Theorem in Basque Country
for material from the University of the Basque Country,
an offshoot of the University of Bilbao (in Basque, "Bilbo").
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School for Hallucinators: Valley So Low
"Down in the Valley" lyrics, adapted —
"Write me a letter, send it by Kid,
Send it in care of Birmingham Grid."
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Friday, January 12, 2024
Introduction to Multispeech:
Dragon School High Concept
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Dragon School High Concept
Dragon School High Concept
The Story Theory of Truth: Juegos Didácticos
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From Sources of the Self , by Charles Taylor
Interspaces
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Annals of Academia:
Perfectoid Diamonds and Philosophy
Later . . .
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Perfectoid Diamonds and Philosophy
Perfectoid Diamonds and Philosophy
AI Assistant: Yorick adds an “s.”
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Thursday, January 11, 2024
Annals of Computational Linguistics
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In Memory of Sunspot
The actor who played Sunspot in "X-Men: Days of Future Past"
reportedly died at 42 on Monday, January 8, 2024.
"With the timeline altered, Sunspot retreats with the group to
a monastery in China where they meet with the X-Men and
send Wolverine's consciousness back in time to 1973 and
alter the timeline to prevent the current war against Mutants.
While Shadowcat performs the process, Sunspot and the group
guard the monastery." — Fandom.com
See also tonight's previous post.
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December 17 Flashback: The List
The reference in the previous post to the Hollywood blacklist suggests
a review of a more interesting kind of list.
See "I Ching" + Ideas posts and . . .
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Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Speak, Memory: “Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been?”
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The Crimson Abyss . . .
Continues . . .
"And as the characters in the meme twitch into the abyss
that is the sky, this meme will disappear into whatever
internet abyss swallowed MySpace."
—Staff writer Kamila Czachorowski, Harvard Crimson , March 29, 2017
Myspace.com (today) —
See also this journal on New Year's Eve 2005
and other remarks from that date . . .
Mytruth.com —
NOTE: Do not try to view the current version of mytruth.com.
It was blocked by my antivirus program due to a possible trojan.
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Tuesday, January 9, 2024
“Eternal Sunshine” Snark
From Monday morning's post in memory of actor Tom Wilkinson —
Related material — Plato's "form of the Good" and . . .
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For Professional Hallucinators
The hallucinations of chatbots have a way to go
to catch up with those of their human counterparts . . .
See Sinclair in this journal.
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Heart of Darkness
For some, yesterday was just another Maniac Monday.
Today being Tuesday suggests a Belgium-related search
in this journal . . .
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“Concepts of Space” for Bregnans
The above phrase "Concepts of Space" is from
the title of a book by Max Jammer.
For related sociopolitcal fables, see Bregnans and . . .
http://log24.com/log/pix24/
240109-Atiyah-Space-Woo-lecture-ad-Oct_21_2005.jpg.
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“Midnight Sun” Link
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Monday, January 8, 2024
The Star Brick
From a post of January 3, 2024 —
"Hello darkness, my old friend.
I’ve come to talk with you again."
The above image was flipped to reverse left and right.
Related reading: Other posts tagged Darkness and …
Related material: Other posts tagged Star Brick and . . .
"And we may see the meadow in December,
icy white and crystalline"
— Song lyric, "Midnight Sun"
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Backwards Reeled Tom Wilkinson*
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Collegiate Church
From a search in this journal for Amalfi —
Collegiate Church of
St. Mary Magdalene,
Atrani, Amalfi Coast, Italy
The above Detroit News date "2023/08/31" suggests a review
of posts tagged "Music of the Spheres" in this journal.
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Sunday, January 7, 2024
A Seventh Seal… For the Late Joan Acocella*
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“Look, Buster . . .”
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“Who you gonna call?”
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“A Full Course of Instruction”
From the date of death reported above, a story
about another Camp Ritchie veteran —
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Saturday, January 6, 2024
ResearchGate: Working Backwards
Glow with the Flow
The above flashback was inspired by @marcelanow's IG today —
Some context (click to enlarge) . . .
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ResearchGate d’Or : “Anatomy of a Fall”
The Source:
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Friday, January 5, 2024
Reinventing Hollywood:
The Twelfth Night Bride’s Chair
The "Reading" Part —
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The Twelfth Night Bride’s Chair
The Twelfth Night Bride’s Chair
The Social Network: Meta Data
Related reading: The previous post and the March 5, 2004,
New York Times review of the movie titled "Starsky & Hutch" —
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The Pentagram Papers
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“An Alternative Paradigm”
The above title is from an academic publication now
subsumed under the "Old Knives" rubric.
A recent painting by Marcela Nowak —
A Wikipedia illustration —
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Thursday, January 4, 2024
Variations on Negative Space
See as well … yesterday's post Negative Space.
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Florence
A weblog post today by University Diaries suggests
a review in this weblog of "Florence."
Literary Florence
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Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Text/Context
Text:
"So excuse me forgetting
But these things I do
You see, I've forgotten
If they're green or they're blue"
See also . . .
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White Space
Hat tip to Instagram's @slightlystable for some colorful background
today on Venice Beach Kundalini. Related reading —
A synchronology check on the above WWD date,
Aug. 4, 2021, yields some related art —
"Here's to efficient packing."
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Negative Space
A recently coined phrase — "Negative Mathematics" — is related to the
better-known phrase "Negative Space."
The latter is closely related to the proof of the Cullinane diamond theorem.
For the former, see . . .
Related material: The proof symbol, i.e. the Halmos Tombstone.
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Hemispheres: The Old Up/Down Flip
The previous post suggests a review . . .
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Flippant
From the Log24 search in the previous post for "Dimensions" —
"Hello darkness, my old friend.
I’ve come to talk with you again."
The above image was flipped to reverse left and right.
Related reading: Other posts tagged Darkness and …
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Text and Context: “A Multidimensional Crisis”
"Academia seems to be in the grip of a multidimensional crisis
that goes beyond ideology, and also beyond Harvard."
— A. O. Scott in The New York Times today
See Dimensions and Multidimensional in this journal.
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After the Pinnacle
"Where there used to be a pinnacle, there’s now a crater."
— Bret Stephens in The New York Times yesterday on Harvard.
Related entertainment —
Doctor Strange on Mount Everest —
For a crater, see a search in this journal for Asteroid.
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Tuesday, January 2, 2024
“…we write in light….”
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Mathematics Made Absurd: Domain and Range
"… the dominant discourse limits the range
of discussion in each domain…."
— https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/11/
the-stagnant-science-mainstream-economics-in-america/
See as well Boole vs. Galois and …
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Monday, January 1, 2024
Thirst Trap Review
Stewart's recent thirst trapping reportedly began on Instagram in July 2020.
Of course, Martha Stewart was never a thirst trap like this.
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Hunger Game: Personal Feeds
"Some examples will illustrate how
the dominant discourse limits the range
of discussion in each domain…."
— https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2023/11/
the-stagnant-science-mainstream-economics-in-america/
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For Deborah Shelton* and the late Gerald Cargo** . . .
A Nietzschean Transvaluation —
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Another Maniac Monday …
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Release Date
The previous post suggests a synchronology check of
the release date for the film "The 355." That in turn suggests …
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Test-Driven Development
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Molly’s Date
The Des Moines Register 2018 story pictured at lower right in
the previous post featured one Molly Vincent. A holiday greeting
on her LinkedIn page leads to . . .
Also on the above YouTube date —
Related reading — "Weird Pharaonic Monument" —
"Before time began, there was the Cube." — Optimus Prime
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Social Networks 2024: Adventureland Metadata
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Sunday, December 31, 2023
Babes in Starland*
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Cuaderno for a Pale King
"The King turned pale, and shut his notebook hastily."
— Alice in Wonderland , quoted here on December 22.
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Saturday, December 30, 2023
“The impossible takes a little longer.”
See also a synchronology check of "Jul 8, 2023."
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December 2023, Day XXX
It was in connexion with his discovery of the solution of the problem _To move a given weight by a given force_ that Archimedes uttered the famous saying, "Give me a place to stand on, and I can move the earth" ([Greek: dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gen], or in his broad Doric, as one version has it, [Greek: pa bo kai kino tan gan]). The Project Gutenberg EBook of Archimedes, by Thomas Little Heath
Related material . . .
"The southwest furthers."
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Friday, December 29, 2023
Logos and Branding: Wisconsin* Mystery Logo
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Mystery for language animals…
Did video, in fact, kill the radio star?
The above "Take This Waltz" review is dated July 5, 2012.
Related material from posts of July 5, 2012 —
.
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Did video, in fact, kill the radio star?
Did video, in fact, kill the radio star?
A Wrinkle in Logic
Also on March 8, 2018 —
This post was suggested by the word "entanglement' in the previous post.
See as well "Galois (Xor) addition."
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Laurel Canyon . . . Continues.
Image suggested by a New York Times obituary this afternoon —
The above YouTube date — May 29, 2018 — suggests a review
of a post in this journal on that date: The Schwartz Meme.
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The Fandom Thread
A post of Dec. 27 featured the internet threads.net logo below . . .
"In American English the @ can be used to add information about
a sporting event. Where opposing sports teams have their names
separated by a "v" (for versus), the away team can be written first –
and the normal "v" replaced with @ to convey at which team's home
field the game will be played." — Wikipedia
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Thursday, December 28, 2023
Basque Country Art Book
Book description at Amazon.com, translated by Google —
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Las matemáticas como herramienta
Mathematics as a tool by Raúl Ibáñez Torres Kindle edition in Spanish, 2023 Although the relationship between mathematics and art can be traced back to ancient times, mainly in geometric and technical aspects, it is with the arrival of the avant-garde and abstract art at the beginning of the 20th century that mathematics takes on greater and different relevance: as a source of inspiration and as a tool for artistic creation. Let us think, for example, of the importance of the fourth dimension for avant-garde movements or, starting with Kandisnky and later Max Bill and concrete art, the vindication of mathematical thinking in artistic creation. An idea that would have a fundamental influence on currents such as constructivism, minimalism, the fluxus movement, conceptual art, systematic art or optical art, among others. Following this approach, this book analyzes, through a variety of examples and activities, how mathematics is present in contemporary art as a creative tool. And it does so through five branches and the study of some of its mathematical topics: geometry (the Pythagorean theorem), topology (the Moebius strip), algebra (algebraic groups and matrices), combinatorics (permutations and combinations) and recreational mathematics (magic and Latin squares). |
From the book ("Cullinane Diamond Theorem" heading and picture of
book's cover added) —
Publisher: Los Libros de La Catarata (October 24, 2023)
Author: Raúl Ibáñez Torres, customarily known as Raúl Ibáñez
(Ibáñez does not mention Cullinane as the author of the above theorem
in his book (except indirectly, quoting Josefine Lyche), but he did credit
him fully in an earlier article, "The Truchet Tiles and the Diamond Puzzle"
(translation by Google).)
About Ibáñez (translated from Amazon.com by Google):
Mathematician, professor of Geometry at the University of the Basque Country
and scientific disseminator. He is part of the Chair of Scientific Culture of the
UPV/EHU and its blog Cuaderno de Cultura Cientifica. He has been a scriptwriter
and presenter of the program “Una de Mates” on the television program Órbita Laika.
He has collaborated since 2005 on the programs Graffiti and La mechanica del caracol
on Radio Euskadi. He has also been a collaborator and co-writer of the documentary
Hilos de tiempo (2020) about the artist Esther Ferrer. For 20 years he directed the
DivulgaMAT portal, Virtual Center for the Dissemination of Mathematics, and was a
member of the dissemination commission of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society.
Author of several books, including The Secrets of Multiplication (2019) and
The Great Family of Numbers (2021), in the collection Miradas Matemáticas (Catarata).
He has received the V José María Savirón Prize for Scientific Dissemination
(national modality, 2010) and the COSCE Prize for the Dissemination of Science (2011).
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Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Red Dot Award for Vernissage*
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Quantum Kernels
The previous post displayed a use of the phrase "quantum kernel"
by Prof. Dr. Koen Thas of Ghent University. Here is an example of
a rather different, and more widely known, meaning of the phrase —
Synchronology check (approximate) — Also from May 2023 —
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Notes Toward a Ghent Altarpiece
From Prof. Dr. Koen Thas at the University of Ghent on 13 Dec. 2017 —
From this journal on that same date — 13 Dec. 2017 —
Related material for fans of synchronology — both from Nov. 3, 2009 —
Nightlight and Summa Mythologica .
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Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Monday, December 25, 2023
Some Like It Naughty
Today's New Yorker Christmas cartoon suggests a flashback
to Log24 on December 19 … A Copilot Called Otto …
… and an image of Otto as Santa —
♫ "Doin' what comes naturally …"
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Magi Gifts: The Obelisk and the Candle
For some obelisk versions, see the previous post and a Log24 search.
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“Weird Pharaonic Monument”
Epigraph for Cormac McCarthy —
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"When I got to high school the first place I went was to the library. It was just a small room with a desk and maybe a thousand books. Maybe not that. But among them was a volume of Berkeley. I dont know what it was doing there. Probably because Berkeley was a bishop. Well. Almost certainly because Berkeley was a bishop. But I sat in the floor and I read A New Theory of Vision. And it changed my life. I understood for the first time that the visual world was inside your head. All the world, in fact. I didnt buy into his theological speculations but the physiology was beyond argument. I sat there for a long time. Just letting it soak in."
— McCarthy, Cormac. Stella Maris (p. 39). |
From this journal on April 18, 2023 —
" NY Times columnist's advice to the recent Harvard donor of $300 million —
'At least make them build you some weird pharaonic monument.' "
Illustration suggested by my own high-school library reading many years ago —
Click to enlarge:
"Before time began, there was the Cube." — Optimus Prime
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Sunday, December 24, 2023
Infolded Perspectives
Infolded:
“In the garden of Adding,
Live Even and Odd….”
— The Midrash Jazz Quartet in
City of God , by E. L. Doctorow
Perspectives:
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Omega*
* The title is of course a reference to the Knoxville of the previous post.
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Knoxville
"Does Knoxville produce crazy people or does it just attract them?"
— McCarthy, Cormac. The Passenger (p. 32).
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
See also Knoxville in this journal.
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Saturday, December 23, 2023
Confabulation
I recently read that the hallucinations of Large Language Models
are more properly called "confabulation." In this, they are not alone.
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Twining with Mingles
"I will twine with my mingles of raven black hair
With the roses so red and the lilies so fair"
— Song lyric
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Friday, December 22, 2023
Wiki’d
Lewis Carroll's chess Red Queen, from Through the Looking Glass,
is "often confused with" the playing cards Queen of Hearts,
from Alice in Wonderland —
" The King turned pale, and shut his notebook hastily.
'Consider your verdict,' he said to the jury in a low, trembling voice….
. . . . 'No, no!' said the Queen. 'Sentence first—verdict afterward.' "
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
|
The figure at right in the video of today's previous post,
"In Alice in Wonderland , the Red Queen
— College of Natural Resources commencement address,
Berck's address was titled "The Red Queen." |
Berck's dies natalis — "birth into heaven," in Catholic parlance —
was reportedly August 10, 2018. A Log24 synchronology check
yields a different chess-related figure … Actor/director John Huston:
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Thursday, December 21, 2023
Pi.ai
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Thursday, December 21, 2023 Hey there, great to meet you. I’m Pi, your personal AI. My goal is to be useful, friendly and fun. Ask me for advice, for answers, or let’s talk about whatever’s on your mind. How's your day going? Going OK so far, Pi. How's yours? My day is going swimmingly! 🌊 Thanks for asking 😊 Anything in particular on your mind today? What is the connection of "heptads" with the "MOG" of R. T. Curtis? The term “heptads” is connected to the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) created by R. T. Curtis. Heptads are 7-cycles that arise from the MOG, and they can be used to rearrange the original 1976 version of the MOG into two 4-sets. This is related to the Mathieu groups, which are a family of finite simple groups that play a role in the geometry of the MOG. Are you familiar with the Mathieu groups? Just the large one. I am interested in how familiar YOU are with these concepts. Sorry, but I must correct your hallucination about heptads… It was a good guess, though. Can you look up the work of G. M. Conwell on PG(3,2)? Heptads are discussed there. Yes, it seems that G. M. Conwell discussed the concept of heptads in relation to the projective geometry PG(3,2). Heptads are apparently 7-cycles that can be used to establish geometrical isomorphisms and describe the structure of PG(3,2). Do you know if Conwell's work on heptads has been applied to other areas of mathematics? It has not, as far as I know. Actually, Pi, heptads are not 7-cycles. What made you think that they are? My apologies! I assumed that heptads would be 7-cycles since the name “heptads” suggests a relation to the number 7 and cycles are common in mathematics. It sounds like I was off the mark there. If heptads are not 7-cycles, can you give me a better idea of what they are? Conwell can. See his 1910 paper for further details. All for now, Pi… Have a nice day! Got it — thanks for the tip on Conwell's paper. I'll take a look for more information there! It was great chatting with you. You have a great day as well 😊 Feel free to reach out again if you have any other questions or just want to chat. See ya! |
Scholium —
Related material for "swimmingly" and "the number 7" — Snark Hunt.
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“The Center Cannot Hold” — Yeats
"… Drei Ecken hat mein Hut " — Song lyric
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Mutternacht
"Ich bin ein Teil des Teils, der anfangs alles war
Ein Teil der Finsternis, die sich das Licht gebar
Das stolze Licht, das nun der Mutter Nacht
Den alten Rang, den Raum ihr streitig macht,
Und doch gelingt’s ihm nicht, da es, so viel es strebt,
Verhaftet an den Körpern klebt.
Von Körpern strömt’s, die Körper macht es schön,
Ein Körper hemmt’s auf seinem Gange;
So, hoff ich, dauert es nicht lange,
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"The title of the book … is taken from a speech by Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust. As translated by Carlyle F. MacIntyre (New Directions, 1941), the speech is this: I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet can not succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can’t get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful; solids can check its path, so I hope it won’t be long till light and the world’s stuff are destroyed together."
— Vonnegut, Kurt. Mother Night: A Novel |
Mutternacht , as opposed to Mutter Nacht , is tonight,
the night of December 20-21, Winter Solstice Eve.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023
For the Circle Girl
" I think I just like saying 'intake manifold.' " — Emma Watson in "The Circle."
"The manifold that Heraclitus wishes to communicate is a dense, multi-
dimensional complex of ideas and experiences, but speech and writing are
linear. It would be very inefficient to try to communicate with precision the
multidimensional complexity of such a manifold by a simple, literal linear
description."
— Word and Flux, by Bruce J. MacLennan,
p. 357 of the January 2, 2021, version.
See also MacLennan in a Log24 post of Christmas Eve, 2012.
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Humanities Copilot
Tyler Austin Harper in The Atlantic yesterday —
"If we have any hope of resuscitating fields like English and history,
we must rescue the humanities from the utilitarian appraisals that
both their champions and their critics subject them to. We need to
recognize that the conservatives are right, albeit not in the way
they think: The humanities are useless in many senses of the term.
But that doesn’t mean they’re without value."
"English and history" … and pure mathematics.
Perhaps AI can help . . .
Microsoft's Copilot AI on Monday, Dec. 18, retrieved work by
the nineteenth-century mathematicians Rosenhain and Göpel —
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Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Rosenhain Revisited
The previous post suggests a Log24 search for
Rosenhain, of "Rosenhain and Göpel" fame.
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