January « 2022

Monday, January 31, 2022

The Prime Mover

Filed under: General — Tags: Glitter for Stoppard, The Epstein Elegy — m759 @ 3:32 pm

"Metaphor in language — the prime mover"

— George Steiner in Real Presences (1989)

Not so prime —

Related marketing:
Disney Easter eggs —

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“Pace the lacquered glitter”

Filed under: General — Tags: Glitter for Stoppard — m759 @ 1:58 pm

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Celebrity News

Filed under: General — Tags: Glitter for Stoppard — m759 @ 12:55 pm

More precisely . . .

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Sunday, January 30, 2022

Rock Music

Filed under: General — Tags: Glitter for Stoppard, Music for Steiner, Plymouth — m759 @ 1:38 pm

"All I need is a miracle" — Song from "Spencer" (2021)

"Risin' up to the challenge of our rival" — "Rocky III" (1982)

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Stein Meets Steiner

Filed under: General — Tags: Glitter for Stoppard, Marrific, Music for Steiner — m759 @ 12:43 pm

"I get no kick from champagne…." — Cole Porter

But . . .

Related literary remarks —

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Saturday, January 29, 2022

As If

Filed under: General — Tags: As If, Music for Steiner — m759 @ 10:45 pm

Continued from this journal's posts of March 1, 2021 —

As If

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:59 PM

” . . . It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir.”

— Wallace Stevens, “The Plain Sense of Things”

For such a savoir, see Cube School.

See as well the Stevens online concordance.

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Annals of Typography

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:53 AM

"Time past and time future . . ." — T. S. Eliot

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California Dreamin’

Filed under: General — Tags: Bombogenesis, Embedding Change, Strange Change, The Drill Imperative — m759 @ 2:38 pm

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The Time of the Season

Filed under: General — Tags: Bombogenesis — m759 @ 1:14 pm

"Tell it to me slowly" — Song lyric

Annie Rauwerda yesterday —

"It's an exciting time for magical fruit."

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Bombogenesis

Filed under: General — Tags: Bombogenesis, Embedding Change, Strange Change — m759 @ 12:18 pm

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On the Diamond-Theorem Group* of Order 322,560

Filed under: General — Tags: Change Arises, Embedding Change, Kummerhenge, Octad, Overarching Group, Permanence, Priority, Strange Change — m759 @ 2:06 am

Taormina and Wendland have often discussed this group, which they
call "overarching" within the context of their Mathieu-moonshine research.

This seems to be the first time they have attempted to explore its geometric
background as an affine group, apart from its role as "the octad group" in the
researches of R. T. Curtis and John Conway on the large Mathieu group M₂₄.

* See a Log24 post of June 1, 2013.

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Friday, January 28, 2022

Escape from a Cartoon Graveyard

Filed under: General — Tags: Cartoon Graveyard — m759 @ 11:55 am

“I need a photo opportunity, I want a shot at redemption.
Don’t want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.”
— Paul Simon

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Thursday, January 27, 2022

The Lexicographic Octad Generator

Filed under: General — Tags: Embedding Change, Octad, Octad Generator, Strange Change, The Guy Embedding — m759 @ 2:30 pm

A Lexicographic Basis for the Binary Golay Code:

Brouwer and Guven — "Long ago," in
"The generating rank of the space of short vectors
in the Leech lattice mod 2," by
Andries Brouwer & Cicek Guven,
https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/preprints/udim24a.pdf —

"One checks by computer" that this is a basis:

000000000000000011111111
000000000000111100001111
000000000011001100110011
000000000101010101010101
000000001001011001101001
000000110000001101010110
000001010000010101100011
000010010000011000111010
000100010001000101111000
001000010001001000011101
010000010001010001001110
100000010001011100100100

(Copied from the Brouwer-Guven paper)

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Adlam at Harvard —
"Constructing the Extended Binary Golay Code,"
by Ben Adlam, Harvard University, August 9, 2011,
https://fliphtml5.com/llqx/wppz/basic —

Adlam also asserts, citing a reference, that this same
set of twelve vectors is a basis:

(Copied from the Adlam paper)
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Sources —

Background for Log24 posts on 'Embedding Change'

"One checks by computer" —

At http://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/calc/ —

> V24 := VectorSpace(FiniteField(2), 24);
> G := sub< V24 |
> [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1],
> [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1],
> [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,0,1,1],
> [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1],
> [0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,1,0,0,1],
> [0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,1,0],
> [0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,1,1,0,0,0,1,1],
> [0,0,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,1,0],
> [0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,0,0,0],
> [0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,0,1],
> [0,1,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,1,1,1,0],
> [1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,1,1,1,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,0]>;
> Dimension(G);
12

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Malt Does More than Milton Can

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:18 pm

Later . . .

Scholium for Doctor Faustus, suggested by
a search in this journal for Robert Mann —

"Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only die. Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern,
Can words or music reach
The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
Moves perpetually in its stillness."

— Four Quartets

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Pundit Obit

Filed under: General — Tags: Darkness — m759 @ 12:40 pm

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The Embedding

Filed under: General — Tags: Darkness — m759 @ 12:05 pm

Continues.

For further details,
click on the monolith.

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Hello Darkness

Filed under: General — Tags: Darkness — m759 @ 10:42 am

Comment on a television series —

“ It is unfortunate that HBO, social media,
television program reviewers,
and paid advertising have chosen to
refer to the show as ‘groundbreaking’…. "

— Quoted at TMZ, 1/26/2022 1:00 AM PT