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From a review of the new game Cyberpunk 2077 —

“Oh, you also find out the chip has meshed with
your nervous system, so you can’t take it out, and
that Silverhand’s consciousness will eventually
overtake yours, meaning your body will live on
but not your mind, soul or spirit.

Damn computers.”

— Daniel Van Boom at cnet.com,
Dec. 7, 2020 4:19 p.m. PT
(and under a different title later)

See also the similar plot of “Upgrade” (2018) , a film featured in the
Log24 post Popular Mechanics: Midnight Upgrade (Oct. 26, 2019).

STEM Education —

For an earlier form of the plot,
see “Go Chip” in this  journal.

See a Log24 search that includes earlier posts on “Redactedentity.”

Recent activity by that entity at the Encyclopedia of Mathematics:

As the above “recent changes” list notes, Redactedentity added
a new favicon section to Talk:EoM on December 7, 2020.  Details —

The new section as it appeared later, with “Redactedentity”
replaced by “Mihir Narayanan” —

Update at 5:35 PM ET on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 —

User “Redactedentity” at Wikipedia is now user “Mihir Narayanan.”

From the Net on December 7, 2020 —

Some background for academics:

“The Self Regained”: Cyberpunk’s Retreat
to the Imperium  by Sharon Stockton (1995)

A review dated December 7:

See the previous post and Butcher’s Clay (March 29, 2014).

* The title refers to a film starring Jessica Chastain.

See also Chastain in Annals of Subliminal Typography.

The title is a phrase I encountered today in a search for background
on the anonymous Wikipedia user whose first “user talk” page is as
follows —

See also CrazyMinecart88 at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CrazyMinecart88 .

“… the disclosure of knowledge as it is
intimately bound up with identity work”

— “Awarding the self in Wikipedia : Identity work
and the disclosure of knowledge,” by Daniel Ashton.
First Monday, Volume 16, Number 1 – 3 January 2011.

Some mine cart  “identity work” of my own —

Today’s earlier post “Binary Coordinates” discussed a Dec. 6
revision to the Wikipedia article on PG(3,2), the projective
geometry of 3 dimensions over the 2-element field GF(2).

The revision, which improved the article, was undone later today
by a clueless retired academic, one William “Bill” Cherowitzo,
a professor emeritus of mathematics at U. of Colorado at Denver.
(See his article “Adventures of a Mathematician in Wikipedia-land,”
MAA Focus , December 2014/January 2015.)

See my earlier remarks on this topic . . . specifically, on this passage —

“A 3-(16,4,1) block design has 140 blocks
of size 4 on 16 points, such that each triplet
of points is covered exactly once. Pick any
single point, take only the 35 blocks
containing that point, and delete that point.
The 35 blocks of size 3 that remain comprise
a PG(3,2) on the 15 remaining points.”

As I noted on November 17, this is bullshit. Apparently Cherowitzo
never bothered to find out that an arbitrary  “3-(16,4,1) block design”
(an example of a Steiner quadruple system ) does not  yield a PG(3,2).

PG(3,2) is derived from the classical  3-(16,4,1) block design formed by the affine
space of 4 dimensions over GF(2).  That  design has 322,560 automorphisms.
In contrast, see a 3-(16,4,1) block design that is  automorphism-free.

The photo of Lauren German from “Standing Still” (2005) in the
previous post suggests some related material for comedians:

The above character-creator name “Neil Gaiman” occurs here
in a post from June 2013 —

The above footnote refers to . . .

More merriment:  Lauren German in a video of the related song
“Another One Bites the Dust.”

“The Devil Likes Metamorphoses.“

A reported death on November 22 —

An image reproduced in this  journal on November 22 —

See also Straightforward + Overarching.

Related material — The “box” version of I Ching hexagram 46,
“pushing upward,” in the lower right corner of the following art,
dated 1/6/89 (Epiphany 1989) —

https://cullinane.pb.design/

See also Ex Machina (Aug. 19, 2016).

See this evening’s New York Times  obituary for the figure below,
who reportedly died today.

IAS is the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, NJ.

For more IAS rhetoric, see yesterday evening’s post on
The Building-Block Metaphor.

See also another item from the above phosphodiester bond date —
September 21, 2015 —

A song for King's band, The Rock Bottom Remainders —

"Hey, good-lookin', whatcha got cookin'?"

The previous post, “A Fine Knife Edge,” suggests . . .

“Any theory or finding, especially if controversial,
always rests on a fine knife edge….”

“It is a truism that nothing is sadder than
the murder of a beautiful theory by a nasty little fact.”

— Statements by one Irving Rothchild in his article
“Induction, Deduction and the Scientific Method”

See as well this  journal on the above Nasty Little Man date —

06 November, 2008 —

“compelling formula” vs. “intricate complexity.”

— Cloud Atlas , by David Mitchell (2004).

The above figure from the previous post
suggests a review of the Trinity  concept.

See as well Jung’s birthday in 2002.

The title is from the previous post.

Related material —

From a review of Teilhard de Chardin’s
The Phenomenon of Man:

See as well . . .

The title was suggested by the previous post.

See as well posts now tagged Crumbs.

Hexagram 15:
Modesty

Click on the hexagram
for some related posts.

To the previous post 

The previous post  contrasted recent bullshit of Louis Menand
with some non-bullshit at Wikipedia.

But Wikipedia is hardly blameless —

The text on the left is bullshit. The illustration on the right is not.

… and  What Is . . . Fact?

Related material for comedians — last  year’s 11/23
and Perlis in this  journal.

Meanwhile, on that same date . . .

See too the previous post and “Turn on, tune in, drop dead.“

From The New Yorker  yesterday —

“The professor and the politician are a dyad of perpetual myth.”

As are the 6 and the 9.

Related material for comedians —

See as well . . .

Damonizing Your Opponent

Windows lockscreen, 9:05 PM ET Tuesday, November 10, 2020

” He say ‘One and one and one is three’ ” — Song lyric

Related theology in memory of the late Paul Shanley —

“Q is for Quelle.”   (November 7, 2020)