Friday, January 31, 2020
Notes for a Blue Guitar
Gravatar at the weblog of Peter J. Cameron —
Same Gravatar in blue —
Synchronology check —
Click Lukasiewicz for further remarks.
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Thursday, January 30, 2020
Poster Boy
Cover Design: Will Staehle / Unusual Co.
This post is in memory of "Wes Wilson, Psychedelic Poster Pioneer,"
who died at 82 on January 24, according to the NY Times today.
Related material — This journal on January 24.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020
The 2013 Simplicity Conference…
… is reviewed by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) in
the February 2020 issue (online Jan. 27) of the AMS Notices :
See as well Simplicity Conference in this journal.
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The Newman Prize
From "Point," a Log24 post on St. Andrew's Day 2012 —
"….mirando il punto 
a cui tutti li tempi son presenti"
— Dante, Paradiso , XVII, 17-18
For instance…
Related material —
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Jewel-Box* Song
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From University Diaries by Margaret Soltan Farewell mein Lieber herr Goodbye mein Lieber herr It was a fine affair but now it's over And though we made you Chair You're not allowed to share We're better off without you mein herr Your talent was a Thousand Talents wide mein herr Your chemistry with China mesmerized mein herr It's really no surprise to find you lied mein herr But that's why FBI Watched you spy... |
* See "Jewel Box" in this journal.
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On the Road
From Mosaic Logic, a post of September 3, 2017 —
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”
—Many Dimensions (1931), by Charles Williams
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Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Once Upon a Time in Laurel Canyon
In memory of a screenwriter who reportedly died today —
“Ms. Frank… lived in Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood Hills….”
— The New York Times today
“Here, under the shadow of the great tree, I have found peace.”
— Mike Nichols in 1965
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The Varieties of Transformative Experience
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Very Stable Kool-Aid
Two of the thumbnail previews
from yesterday's 1 AM post …
Further down in the "6 Prescott St." post, the link 5 Divinity Avenue
leads to …
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A Letter from Timothy Leary, Ph.D., July 17, 1961
Harvard University July 17, 1961
Dr. Thomas S. Szasz Dear Dr. Szasz: Your book arrived several days ago. I've spent eight hours on it and realize the task (and joy) of reading it has just begun. The Myth of Mental Illness is the most important book in the history of psychiatry. I know it is rash and premature to make this earlier judgment. I reserve the right later to revise and perhaps suggest it is the most important book published in the twentieth century. It is great in so many ways–scholarship, clinical insight, political savvy, common sense, historical sweep, human concern– and most of all for its compassionate, shattering honesty. . . . . |
The small Morton Prince House in the above letter might, according to
the above-quoted remarks by Corinna S. Rohse, be called a "jewel box."
Harvard moved it in 1978 from Divinity Avenue to its current location at
6 Prescott Street.
Related "jewel box" material for those who
prefer narrative to mathematics —
"In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , Tom Wolfe writes about encountering
'a young psychologist,' 'Clifton Fadiman’s nephew, it turned out,' in the
waiting room of the San Mateo County jail. Fadiman and his wife were
'happily stuffing three I-Ching coins into some interminable dense volume*
of Oriental mysticism' that they planned to give Ken Kesey, the Prankster-
in-Chief whom the FBI had just nabbed after eight months on the lam.
Wolfe had been granted an interview with Kesey, and they wanted him to
tell their friend about the hidden coins. During this difficult time, they
explained, Kesey needed oracular advice."
— Tim Doody in The Morning News web 'zine on July 26, 2012**
Oracular advice related to yesterday evening's
"jewel box" post …
A 4-dimensional hypercube H (a tesseract ) has 24 square
2-dimensional faces. In its incarnation as a Galois tesseract
(a 4×4 square array of points for which the appropriate transformations
are those of the affine 4-space over the finite (i.e., Galois) two-element
field GF(2)), the 24 faces transform into 140 4-point "facets." The Galois
version of H has a group of 322,560 automorphisms. Therefore, by the
orbit-stabilizer theorem, each of the 140 facets of the Galois version has
a stabilizer group of 2,304 affine transformations.
Similar remarks apply to the I Ching In its incarnation as
a Galois hexaract , for which the symmetry group — the group of
affine transformations of the 6-dimensional affine space over GF(2) —
has not 322,560 elements, but rather 1,290,157,424,640.
* The volume Wolfe mentions was, according to Fadiman, the I Ching.
** See also this journal on that date — July 26, 2012.
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Monday, January 27, 2020
Jewel Box
The phrase "jewel box" in a New York Times obituary online this afternoon
suggests a review. See "And He Built a Crooked House" and Galois Tesseract.
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A Line for Rose the Hat
"Hum a few bars, Steely Dan."
Related material — "For 6 Prescott Street" and "SAT."
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Links' thumbnail previews —
"SAT"
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Sunday, January 26, 2020
Looking Glass Meets Rabbit Hole
The New York Times promoting paranoia on Jan. 24, 2020 —
"The fruit of that victory was a new economic logic that I call
'surveillance capitalism.' Its success depends upon one-way-mirror
operations engineered for our ignorance and wrapped in a fog of
misdirection, euphemism and mendacity. . . ."
"It’s not surprising that so many of us rushed to follow the bustling
White Rabbit down his tunnel into a promised digital Wonderland
where, like Alice, we fell prey to delusion."
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Block those metaphors. |
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Everything’s Up to Date in Kansas City
Alan Portner on Jan. 24, reviewing a current Kansas City production
of David Auburn's 2000 play "Proof" —
"PROOF is a term from the world of
high level theoretical mathematics.
It is a mathematical expression that
describes a new conceptual idea."
My reaction to this production and to the review —
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Harmonic-Analysis Building Blocks
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Duke Blocks
The Wall Street Journal Jan. 24 on a Duke University professor —
"Dr. Daubechies is best known for her work on mathematical structures
called wavelets; her discoveries have been so influential, in fact, that
these are referred to in the field as Daubechies wavelets. She describes
them as 'mathematical building blocks' that can be used to extract the
essential elements of images or signals without losing their quality—
in effect, a new universal language for scientists and researchers."
See also this journal on January 20-21, and …
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Saturday, January 25, 2020
Friday, January 24, 2020
Oettinger Quote
Quote Investigator on May 4, 2010* —
"QI has traced the core of the quotation
to the work of an early researcher in
artificial intelligence, Anthony Oettinger,
who was trying to get a computer to
manipulate the English language."
See as well Oettinger in 1963.
"And that was the state of the art."
— Adapted from Stephen Sondheim
* Cf. this journal on that date.
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Smart Jewish Girl*…
… Suggests the word dreamlogic. And so …
"You are getting sleepy, very sleepy …"
"In this state of free-association, each new thought
resembles or overlaps or somehow connects-to
the previous thought. As our alertness continues to fall —
as we continue to grow more tired — we lose contact with
external reality.
'The sweetness/ of the gentle world you had made for him
dissolving beneath/ his drowsy eyelids, into the foretaste of
sleep — .' (Rilke, transl. Stephen Mitchell.) Eventually we
sleep and dream."
— Edge.org, "Dream-logic, the Internet and Artificial Thought,"
by David Gelernter [7.7.10]
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Exploring Fiction
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Thursday, January 23, 2020
Exploring Schoolgirl Space…
"Old men ought to be explorers." — T. S. Eliot.
Rose the Hat in her younger days.
See as well Barsotti in this journal.
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The Demarcation of Nothing
"… nothing could be demarcated as 'hors d'oeuvre'…"
— Geoffrey Hartman in his Haskins Lecture for 2000
(quoted here on Columbus Day, 2004).
See also May Day 2016 and Gap Dance.
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Adversarial
And now for something completely different . . .
"With Mr. Lehrer reporting from Washington and Mr. MacNeil
from New York, the program sought to represent all sides of
a controversy by eliciting comments from rivals for public
attention. But the anchors deliberately drew no sweeping
conclusions of their own about disputed matters, allowing
viewers to decide for themselves what to believe.
The approach had its drawbacks. An extended presentation
of authoritative voices offering conflicting viewpoints left
some viewers dissatisfied, if not confused. Many found the
technique elitist and dull, and even some critics called it
boring — or, worse, a willful refusal by Mr. Lehrer and Mr.
MacNeil to make hard judgments about adversarial issues
affecting the public interest."
See also the previous two posts.
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Columbus Day 2004
A followup to the previous post:
Related material — A web page on chess cached for use in a
Log24 post on the date of the above post, Columbus Day, 2004.
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Obit et Orbit Continues.
In memoriam —
"Doug co-founded the Secure Machine Learning research group
in 2004, focused on defining how adversaries can influence and
manipulate machine learning algorithms and how to make them
robust against such attacks, culminating in a recently published
book, Adversarial Machine Learning , with a colleague and two
former students."
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Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Gap Dance
From Wallace Stevens, "The Man with the Blue Guitar":
IX
And the color, the overcast blue
Of the air, in which the blue guitar
Is a form, described but difficult,
And I am merely a shadow hunched
Above the arrowy, still strings,
The maker of a thing yet to be made . . . .
"Arrowy, still strings" from the diamond theorem
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020
Eye-in-the-Pyramid Points
"it remains only to choose a pleasing arrangement of {1, 2, … 7}
to label the eye-in-the-pyramid points.
there are, as it’ll turn out, 168 of ’em that’ll work."
— Comment at a weblog on November 27, 2010.
See also Log24 on that date.
The 11/27/2010 comment was on a post dated November 23, 2010.
See also Log24 on that date.
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Monday, January 20, 2020
Dyadic Harmonic Analysis:
The Fourfold Square and Eightfold Cube
Related material: A Google image search for “field dream” + log24.
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Sunday, January 19, 2020
For 6 Prescott Street*
"Freshman Seminar Program Department Administrator Corinna S. Rohse
described the program’s courses, which allow students to study subjects
that vary from Sanskrit to the mathematical basis for chess, as
'jewel-like: small and incredibly well-cut.' "
— The Harvard Crimson , Dec. 10, 2008
For remarks related to Sanskrit, chessboard structure, and "jewel-like"
mathematics, see A Prince of Darkness (Log24, March 28, 2006).
See also Walsh Functions in this journal and …
Lecture notes on dyadic harmonic analysis
(Cuernavaca, 2000)
Compare and contrast these remarks of Pereyra with the following
remarks, apparently by the same Corinna S. Rohse quoted above.
* Location of the Harvard Freshman Seminar program in the 2008
article above. The building at 6 Prescott was moved there from
5 Divinity Avenue in 1978. When the seminar program was started
in the fall of 1959, it was located in a house at 8 Prescott St. (In
1958-1959 this was a freshman dorm, the home of Ted Kaczynski.)
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For a Harvard Classmate Who Died on St. Lucia’s Day
Richard H. Masland and I were in a Harvard freshman seminar together
in the 1960-61 academic year. From a Crimson article on the program —
"Freshman Seminar Program Department Administrator Corinna S. Rohse
described the program’s courses, which allow students to study subjects
that vary from Sanskrit to the mathematical basis for chess, as
'jewel-like: small and incredibly well-cut.' "
This suggests a review of Log24 posts now tagged Four Gates.
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Saturday, January 18, 2020
Interplay
"This interplay of necessity and contingency
produces our anxious— and highly pleasurable—
speculation about the future path of the story."
— Michel Chaouli in "How Interactive Can Fiction Be?"
(Critical Inquiry 31, Spring 2005, page 613.)
See also . . .
Continuing previous Modal Diamond Box posts:
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Friday, January 17, 2020
September Morn
Epigraph from Ch. 4 of Design Theory , Vol. I:
"Es is eine alte Geschichte,
doch bleibt sie immer neu "
—Heine (Lyrisches Intermezzo XXXIX)
This epigraph was quoted here earlier on
the morning of September 1, 2011.
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Design Theory
On a recently deceased professor emeritus of architecture
at Princeton —
“… Maxwell ‘established the school as a principal
center of design research, history and theory.’ ”
“This is not the Maxwell you’re looking for.”
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Orbits and Stabilizers
Sure it does.
See as well, in yesterday's Cornfield post, Plato on
tolerating "the presence of untruth." That not one
of the 29 (as of today) comments on Gowers's post
mentions the above presence of untruth is itself a
comment on the culture of the Academy.
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Thursday, January 16, 2020
NowHere
The title is suggested by the word "NowHere" on a map
that I encountered in a personal weblog post tonight.
Related Google search —
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The Dreaming Jewels of J. R. R. Tolkien
See also Silmarils and, in this journal, The Dreaming Jewels .
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A Very Stable Cornfield
"We show deeper implications of this simple principle,
by establishing a connection with the interplay
of orbits and stabilizers of group actions."
See also Dark Fields , a post featuring a work of philosophy
translated, reportedly, by one "Francis MacDonald Cornfield" —
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
The Round Square
From a link in my RSS feed tonight to the Times Literary Supplement ,
via Aldaily.com —
See as well some Log24 posts tagged Circular Rectangle.
Related material: A passage quoted here on Jan. 28, 2009 —
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When?
Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler. Where?
— Ulysses, conclusion of Episode 17 |
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Paradigm Shift
Illustration, from a search in this journal for “Symplectic” —
.
Some background: Rift-design in this journal and …
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The Crimson Passion* Continues
Related material — Earlier posts now also tagged Uncanny Valley,
esp. Xmas Colors: Green to Red.
* See a search for Crimson Passion in this journal.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
The Finland Station
In memory of a film director who reportedly died on Jan. 9 —
"Lenin . . . . was not the man for swans."
— Stevens, "Description Without Place"
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For a Black Swan
Related material from Stephen King —
— and from Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb —
See as well this journal on the Taleb date: Feb. 27, 2018 —
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Woo in Review
An article in Scientific American today suggests a review of posts
now tagged "Euclid vs. Woo" and "Trudeau vs. Euclid."
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Monday, January 13, 2020
D8ing Continues
For the Church of Synchronology —
See as well this journal on the above lecture date: April 4, 2018,
in other posts now also tagged D8.
Update of 11:22 PM ET Jan. 13, 2020 —
Note the Christmas Eve date, and compare and contrast with the previous post.
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All About Eve
Or: Space Station 76 Continues.
https://www.yifysubtitles.com/subtitles/ad-astra-english-yify-159200:
See as well this journal on
Christmas Eve, 2019.
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Abandoned Norwegian Space Vessel
"… an abandoned Norwegian space vessel" is a phrase from
a review of the recent film "Ad Astra."
Related material — Bester's "The Stars My Destination."
Book cover (adapted) —
See also the previous post.
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Twenty-Four Quartets
For the source of these figures in pure mathematics, see …
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9660064/mediaviewer/rm4265298176.
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Sunday, January 12, 2020
Interconnecting the Meaning Fragments
"Meaning fragments" is a phrase from the previous post.
See Wechsler in this journal.
Related material —
"the liberation of the plastic elements."
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Fragments
From this journal on June 25, 2009 —
“… T. S. Eliot tried to recompose, in Four Quartets,
the fragments he had grieved over in The Waste Land.”
— “Beauty and Desecration,” Roger Scruton
From The Guardian today —
From this journal this morning —
“The spatial conception interconnects the meaning fragments
and binds them together . . . .“
— S. Giedion, introduction to Language of Vision by Gyorgy Kepes
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Seeking a Moral
From the previous post —
Psychiatrist Irvin Yalom on Philip Roth's Exit Ghost ,
in an undated interview published in 2008:
"Philip Roth has got a new book out called Exit Ghost ,
which I find touching. He’s ageing and pursuing the
question of what ageing does to a writer’s skills. I’m
dealing with that myself so that book speaks for me
a great deal."
Related material from October 2, 2007 —
See as well this journal on the days before and after
the Kakutani review above:
October 1, 2007 — Bright as Magnesium
October 3, 2007 — Janitor Monitor .
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Cross of the Stations
From the previous post —
"… a single station point for naturalistic representation."
— S. Giedion, introduction to Language of Vision by Gyorgy Kepes
Cf. The Last Station, not The Finland Station.
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Plastic Elements
"Step by step, Kepes follows the liberation of the plastic elements:
lines, planes, and colors, and the creation of a world of forms of our own.
The spatial conception interconnects the meaning fragments and
binds them together just as in another period perspective did when it used
a single station point for naturalistic representation."
— S. Giedion, introduction to Language of Vision by Gyorgy Kepes
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Saturday, January 11, 2020
Mathematical Theology (“Art School Confidential” continues.)
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Mathematics or Theology?
Hersh wrote a paper with a title containing the phrase
“The Kingdom of Math is Within You.”
In his memory, see Log24 posts from the date of his death
tagged Inner-Space Variations.
Related literature: Hersh's "Death and Mathematics Poems."
See as well this journal on the above publication date.
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Friday, January 10, 2020
Jan. 9 Review
“Work as if you were in the
early days of a better nation.”
— God, according to the author of
1982 Janine
|
From Carole A. Holdsworth, Tanner may have stated it best:
“V. is whatever lights you to
(Tony Tanner, page 36,
She’s a mystery |
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In Memoriam: Mike Resnick
Science fiction author Mike Resnick "died very early today,
January 10, 2020, a little after midnight," his daughter wrote,
according to a Heavy.com article dated "Jan 9, 2020 at 11:07 am."
That date of death accordingly should be "January 9, 2020."
But perhaps the saying "print the legend" is relevant here.
For related fiction, see Resnick's The Dark Lady in this journal
and …
"There was a young lady named Bright
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She set out one day
In a relative way
And returned on the previous night."
[Link added.]
— According to quoteinvestigator.com, this is from the
December 19, 1923, Punch, or The London Charivari ,
Volume 165, "Relativity" (Limerick), page 591, column 1.
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Thursday, January 9, 2020
Universal History (Adapted)
"One of the more fortuitous encounters of late-20th-century popular culture —
almost up there with Lennon meets McCartney and Taylor meets Burton —
took place on Labor Day 1965, at Jane Fonda’s Malibu beach house. The
actress was hosting a daylong bash at which her father, Henry’s,
generation mingled uneasily with her Hollywood hippie friends. The Byrds
played in the backyard. A young comedian-turned-film director named Mike
Nichols was approached by an improv comic-turned-itinerant writer named
Buck Henry, who asked how he was doing. Nichols dourly looked around
at all the proto-Summer of Love vibes and said, 'Here, under the shadow
of the great tree, I have found peace.'
Henry immediately recognized a sardonic East Coast kindred spirit trapped
in Lotusland . . . ."
— Ty Burr, Boston Globe staff, January 9, 2020, 10:34 AM
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Adapt or Die
For Hollywood —
For Emily Yahr (see second item above) —
Buck Henry reportedly died yesterday, January 8, 2020.
This journal on that date a year earlier —
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Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Toronto Word Problem
The phrase "funk to a reality" in the previous post suggests …
For the Toronto Star —
DECODING MATHEMATICS AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
"Dissecting a passage of text in a language other than one's
native language is a daunting task and requires a strategy.
When dissecting mathematical language, readers are faced
with the same challenges, whether the mathematics is in
the form of an equation or in the form of a word problem."
— https://www.jstor.org/stable/20876351
The problem, in this case, is with the word "functoriality."
The solution: See the following article.
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Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Evening of the Iguana
Art notes —
See also the "Night of the Iguana" logo by Saul Bass,
a student of Gyorgy Kepes.
Postscript for synchronologists —
See this journal on that date: Nov. 6, 2011.
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Golden Globe
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Invisible Weaving
See as well a post from this journal on the above date —
June 12, 2014. (That post revisits a post from today's date —
January 7 — eight years ago, in 2012.)
Related material: Dharma Fabric and Symplectic.
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Dharma Fabric
Lines from "Description Without Place" —
"An age is green or red. An age believes
Or it denies. An age is solitude
Or a barricade against the singular man
By the incalculably plural."
— Wallace Stevens
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Monday, January 6, 2020
Art as Experience (Minus Baldessari)
In memory of an artist who reportedly died in Venice, CA, on Jan. 2 —
Two quotes from the website Quotes Sayings —
"I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window
of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast." — John Baldessari
"A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION
IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE" — John Baldessari
The "dead experience" quote is actually from Gyorgy Kepes:
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Sunday, January 5, 2020
Dog Art
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The Vulgate of Experience
"The eye’s plain version is a thing apart,
The vulgate of experience."
— Wallace Stevens, opening lines of
"An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"
Real architectural detail from a New Year's
Netflix fiction —
Click for context.
See as well a similar architectural detail in
a Log24 post of June 21, 2010.
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Saturday, January 4, 2020
Welcome to the Uncanny Valley Country Club
The previous post suggests a look at some Robot Apocalypse remarks:
Related material —
This journal on the above Stranger Dimensions date —
"Thus the theory of description matters most.
It is the theory of the word for those
For whom the word is the making of the world…."
— Wallace Stevens, "Description Without Place, VII"
See also Finite Relativity (St. Cecilia's Day, 2012).
Some other lines from "Description Without Place" —
"An age is green or red. An age believes
Or it denies. An age is solitude
Or a barricade against the singular man
By the incalculably plural."
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Xmas Colors: Green to Red
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Friday, January 3, 2020
Valhalla Requiem
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Spectral Woo
"… during that spell between the feasts of Christmas and Epiphany
when ghosts and specters are supposed to be abroad . . . ."
Heinrich Zimmer on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Times Literary Supplement , January 3, 2020
Sciences | Book Review
The world is not enough:
Guessing at the game God is playing
By Samuel Graydon
See as well …
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Thursday, January 2, 2020
Nada for Hemingway
See Nada + Hemingway in this journal.
The above upload date suggests a look at
other posts now tagged Red to Green.
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Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Águila
"We learned so much about singing from each other because you get to sort of be them for a second when you're shadowing them in harmony. It's like getting on an eagle and getting to see the world through that eagle's experience." Read more: https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/ movie_script.php?movie=linda-ronstadt-the-sound-of-my-voice
See also Aguila de Oro.
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Exploring Inner Space* at The New York Times
From Corrections: Jan. 1, 2020 —
The astronomy article, by Dennis Overbye, is dated Dec. 23* (a Monday).
The above reference to "Tuesday" is explained by the fine print
at the bottom of the Science Times article — "A version of this article
appears in print on [Tuesday] , Section D, Page 6 of the
New York edition with the headline: In Battle of Giant Telescopes,
Outlook for the U.S. Dims."
From the article as quoted on Thursday, Dec. 26,
at https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com —
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"Now, as the wheels of the academic and government bureaucracy begin to turn, many American astronomers worry that they are following in the footsteps of their physicist colleagues. In 1993, Congress canceled the Superconducting Super Collider, and the United States ceded the exploration of inner space to Europe and CERN, which built the Large Hadron Collider, 27 miles in diameter, where the long-sought Higgs boson was eventually discovered. The United States no longer builds particle accelerators. There could come a day, soon, when Americans no longer build giant telescopes. That would be a crushing disappointment to a handful of curious humans stuck on Earth, thirsting for cosmic grandeur. In outer space, nobody can hear you cry." Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/science/telescopes-magellan-hawaii-astronomy.html |
Related material from this journal on April 2, 2019 —
Cover design by Greg Stadnyk, available in an animated gif.
* See also this journal on Dec. 23.
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A Hexagram for Pauli*
Pictorial version
of Hexagram 20,
Contemplation (View)
* See Pauli in the Dec. 30
post Number and Time.
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