Breach's 1981 approach is not axiomatic,
but instead graphic. Another such approach —
Saturday, December 31, 2016
Habeas
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Toronto Star Quality
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Rogue One’s Opening Date
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Friday, December 30, 2016
ZZZ Accounting
Or: Lost in Conversion
The main title is the name of Ben Affleck's firm in "The Accountant."
The subtitle was suggested by religious remarks in the previous post.
From "The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic" —
"The following June, 1945, von Neumann penned
what would become a historic document entitled
'First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC,' the first published
description of a stored-program binary computing machine—
the modern computer."
Image from von Neumann's report —
Version converted to text —
See also "Turing + Dyson" in this journal . . .
For a character that "spans both worlds,"
see posts tagged "Oscar Day 2007."
Related image data —
" 'No views' is good." — Christian Wolff
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For the Accountant*
From "The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic" —
"To store the programs as data, the computer would need
something new: a memory. That’s where Pitts’ loops
came into play. 'An element which stimulates itself
will hold a stimulus indefinitely,' von Neumann wrote
in his report . . . ."
— Amanda Gefter, Nautilus , Feb. 5, 2015
Related material —
"Here we go loop de loop" — Johnny Thunder, 1962
* I.e., Ben Affleck in his new film.
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Thursday, December 29, 2016
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Meanwhile…
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Rosetta Tesseracts
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016
The Dark Side
"The record, released on the Diamond label,
became a big hit, rising to no. 4 on the
Billboard Hot 100 in early 1963." — Wikipedia
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Bright Star
See instances of the title in this journal.
Material related to yesterday evening's post
"Bright and Dark at Christmas" —
The Buddha of Rochester:
See also the Gelman (i.e., Gell-Mann) Prize
in the film "Dark Matter" and the word "Eightfold"
in this journal.
" A fanciful mark is a mark which is invented
for the sole purpose of functioning as a trademark,
e.g., 'Kodak.' "
"… don't take my Kodachrome away." — Paul Simon
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Monday, December 26, 2016
Bright and Dark at Christmas
See also this journal on Christmas night.
"Adam Frank, an astrophysicist who writes for NPR's
13.7 blog, described dark matter by comparing it to
a ghost in a horror movie. You can't see it, he writes —
'but you know it's with you because it messes with
the things you can see. ' " — NPR.org this evening
See as well today's post Old News and the Nov. 4, 2008,
book on Charles Dickens, The Man Who Invented Christmas .
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For What It’s Worth
The previous post introduced the phrase "secondary meaning."
A discussion —
" In order to establish a secondary meaning for a term,
a plaintiff 'must show that the primary significance in
the minds of the consuming public is not the product
but the producer.' "
— FreeAdvice®.com
See also The Zero Theorem and Bialystock in this journal.
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Fanciful (continued)
From "Plato Thanks the Academy," March 19, 2014 —
“Click on fanciful .”
A possible result —
See also "Triple Cross."
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Old News
From IndieWire on November 11, 2016 —
"Bleecker Street has announced it has acquired
U.S. and select territory rights to 'The Man Who
Invented Christmas,' to be directed by Bharat
Nalluri. The film will start shooting next month
and is targeting a holiday 2017 release date."
This journal on November 11, 2016 —
On Christmas 2015, Log24 featured
the Bleecker Street favicon
in the post 'Dark Symbol.'
Here is the dark symbol again —
The apparent symbols for "times" and "plus"
in the above screenshot are, of course, icons for
browser functions. Readers who prefer the
fanciful may regard them instead as symbols for
"a gateway to another realm," that of number theory.
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Last December 26
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Saturday, December 26, 2015
Midnight Reflection
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This year on December 26 — A Lutheran-related note from 2015 …
… and one from Christmas 2016 —
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Sunday, December 25, 2016
Last Christmas*
From "Bright Symbol," a post of 12 AM
on December 25, 2015 —
From "Dark Symbol," a post of 12 PM
on December 25, 2015 —
* Title suggested by a song released by Epic Records in 1984.
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Credit Where Due
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Saturday, December 24, 2016
Early X Piece
In memory of an American artist whose work resembles that of
the Soviet constructivist Karl Ioganson (c. 1890-1929).
The American artist reportedly died on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016.
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"In fact, the (re-)discovery of this novel structural principle was made in 1948-49 by a young American artist whom Koleichuk also mentions, Kenneth Snelson. In the summer of 1948, Snelson had gone to study with Joseph Albers who was then teaching at Black Mountain College. . . . One of the first works he made upon his return home was Early X Piece which he dates to December 1948 . . . . "
— "In the Laboratory of Constructivism: |
The word "constructivism" also refers to a philosophy of mathematics.
See a Log24 post, "Constructivist Witness," of 1 AM ET on the above
date of death.
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Friday, December 23, 2016
Memory, History, Geometry
Code Blue
Update of 7:04 PM ET —
The source of the 404 message in the browsing history above
was the footnote below:
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Requiem for a Mathematician
From a Dec. 21 obituary posted by the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville —
"Wade was ordained as a pastor and served
at Oakwood Baptist Church in Knoxville."
Other information —
In a Log24 post, "Seeing the Finite Structure,"
of August 16, 2008, Wade appeared as a co-author
of the Walsh series book mentioned above —
Walsh Series: An Introduction
to Dyadic Harmonic Analysis,
by F. Schipp et al.,
Taylor & Francis, 1990
From the 2008 post —
The patterns on the faces of the cube on the cover
of Walsh Series above illustrate both the
Walsh functions of order 3 and the same structure
in a different guise, subspaces of the affine 3-space
over the binary field. For a note on the relationship
of Walsh functions to finite geometry, see
Symmetry of Walsh Functions.
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Nightmares Before Christmas
Recent posts have featured the Tim Burton films
"Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children"
(and the Ghost Ship), as well as "Ed Wood" (and Plan 9).
Related material —
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