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A search in Fandom for Saul Durand leads back,
as often happens, to Indiana Jones . . .

Fandom page with a completely irrelevant Indiana Jones video.

Earlier . . .

A Riddler Wannabe —

Related material — The Krauss passage quoted as above
by Shechtman in The New Yorker  in December 2021 appears
also in a Log24 post of October 18, 2017:  "Three Small Grids."

"How's tricks, dangerous love triangle?"

The Source:

Hat tip to a sixties film title.

"Don’t be distracted by the numbers of people who
haven’t heard of ChatGPT yet—the real bellwethers,
particularly among well-educated or younger people,
are in those business numbers. The recent leap in
work use might indicate that those who are already
augmenting their work with the brainy verbosity of LLMs
are advocating it to colleagues."

— Steven Levy at Wired.com today

From the above Baez essay —

"And when the hero arrives, there should be
a little flourish of trumpets, like:

And now we come to a key player:
the group of deck transformations."

This remark and Baez's statement that

"Ideally the tricks I’m suggesting here
will be almost invisible…."

suggest a non-mathematical "deck transformation"
that some will prefer —

In the March 21 Netflix series "3 Body Problem,"
the deck of the ship Judgment Day is transformed
in a spectacular manner by an invisible  trick.

"This is by way of a pep talk, mes petites . . ."

Musical and theatrical accompaniment . . .

Musical:  Valse pour les petites , reportedly recorded on March 2, 2019;

Theatrical:  A Log24 post from that same date, Schoolgirls for Galois.
 

See the title in this journal.

The above solar art is . . .

(By John Baez, cousin of Joan)

(The Baez art was also displayed here  on Saturday, March 23, 2024 —
the second day of the 2024 Biennale in the Desert Sun  article.)

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The image of a mathematician reading Life of Pi  in today's 8:36 AM ET post
suggests some further reading, not  about a fictional tiger —

• Wikipedia on the life of Richard A. Parker and
• Robert A. Wilson on the mathematics of Richard A. Parker.

As for the tiger . . .

"Liars prosper."

Related material for comedy writers —

I noticed today that the April 2024 issue of the AMS Notices
is now online.  Its cover features art by Max Bill (uncredited
on the cover, though not inside).  Bill appeared here  last week:

For some background, see a webpage at artsandculture.google.com.

The word "creamy" in this journal suggests a look at . . .

See also "Circle in the Square" and Fulcrum.

The above is from a post, "Immanentizing the Eschaton," in this
journal on March 6, 2024.  For the significance of that date to
San Juan Capistrano , see a New York Times  obituary online today.

See as well the source of the above remarks by Walter Benjamin.

SPACE Date: 1984/09/15.

I found the above essay via the references cited in . . .

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/legal-studies/article/abs/
criminalising-deceptive-sex-sex-identity-and-recognition/
7A5589286B535E30B88A9765A5844CFC.