Thursday, June 30, 2022
Browser Elegy
The previous post, and a New York Times report today
of a June 15 death, suggest a review . . .
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Techie Wordplay: “Lynx”
"As of 2022, it is the oldest web browser still being maintained,,,,"
"The speed benefits of text-only browsing are most apparent
when using low bandwidth internet connections, or older computer
hardware that may be slow to render image-heavy content."
— Wikipedia [“Older” link added.]
And then there is . . .
See as well the LYNX of Oslo artist Josefine Lyche.
Update of June 30, 2022 —
Lyche, whose art often incorporates mathematical notions,
has not yet, as far as I know, explored the Borromean link
(three rings, linked mutually but not pairwise) in her art.
Remarks by a different math fan, Evelyn Lamb —
"I have had a thing for the Borromean rings for years now.
There’s something so poetic about them. The three rings
are strong together, but they fall apart if any one of them
is removed. Alternatively, the three rings are trapped together
until one of them leaves and sets the others free. I’m kind of
surprised there isn’t a Wisława Szymborska poem or
Tom Stoppard play that explores the metaphorical possibilities
in the Borromean rings." — Scientific American , Sept. 30, 2016.
See also the Lamb date Sept. 30, 2016, as well as work
by Lyche, in Log24 posts tagged Star Cube.
Related material — The Log24 post Borromean Generators.
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Mathematical Plays*
A song whose melody was used in
Westworld, Season 4, Episode 1 —
"Singin' in the old bars
Swingin' with the old stars
Livin' for the fame
Kissin' in the blue dark
Playin' pool and wild darts
Video games"
In memory of a video game executive
who reportedly died on June 22, 2022 —
* Adapted from a book title.
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The Battle of Pergamon Press
See as well Buranyi in the previous post and Pergamon in this journal.
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Science Poetry
"One of the most fascinating recent areas of research
is known as plasticity, which has shown that some
organisms have the potential to adapt more rapidly
and more radically than was once thought.
Descriptions of plasticity are startling, bringing to mind
the kinds of wild transformations you might expect to find
in comic books and science fiction movies."
— "Do we need a new theory of evolution?,"
The Guardian, June 28, 2022, by Stephen Buranyi
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022
A Data Cube for Casaubon
Cartoon version of George Eliot, author of Middlemarch ,
and Ada Lovelace, programming pioneer —
See as well an earlier vision of a data cube for mythologies
by Claude Lévi-Strauss —
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Monday, June 27, 2022
Dealing With Cubism
Continued from April 12, 2022.
"It’s important, as art historian Reinhard Spieler has noted,
that after a brief, unproductive stay in Paris, circa 1907,
Kandinsky chose to paint in Munich. That’s where he formed
the Expressionist art group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) —
and where he avoided having to deal with cubism."
— David Carrier,
Remarks by Louis Menand in The New Yorker today —
"The art world isn’t a fixed entity.
It’s continually being reconstituted
as new artistic styles emerge."
(Adapted from Encyclopaedia Britannica,
Eleventh Edition (1911), Crystallography .)
"Before time began, there was the Cube."
— Optimus Prime
See as well Verbum (February 18, 2017).
Related dramatic music —
"Westworld Season 4 begins at Hoover Dam,
with William looking to buy the famous landmark.
What does he consider to be 'stolen' data that is inside?"
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The Plotlines
"Westworld Season 4 begins at Hoover Dam, with William
looking to buy the famous landmark. What does he consider
to be 'stolen' data that is inside?"
For further details, see Log24 on May 16,
Sketch for a Magic Triangle.
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Sunday, June 26, 2022
Mockery Day
For Monty Python —
"Glastonbury has been described as having a New Age community[6]
and possibly being where New Age beliefs originated at the turn of
the twentieth century.[7] It is notable for myths and legends often
related to Glastonbury Tor, concerning Joseph of Arimathea, the
Holy Grail and King Arthur." — Wikipedia
For American Democracy —
Related mockery from 2012 —
See also "Triangles Are Square" in 1984 —
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Twin Sixteens
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Lexicon
Sunday, May 24, 2020
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Saturday, June 25, 2022
The Legacy* Battle
See as well this journal on October 14, 2009 . . .
the date of death for Bruce Wasserstein.
* "Leave a space." — "Jumpers," by Tom Stoppard
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For Harlan Kane: The Thoreau Foundation
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Friday, June 24, 2022
Red Dot Award
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Thursday, June 23, 2022
Opinion Piece
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The Nutshell Suite
The above is a summary of
Pythagorean philosophy
reposted here on . . .
Battle of the Nutshells:
From a much larger nutshell
on the above Pythagorean date—
Now let's dig a bit deeper into history . . .
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Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Summertime in Augusta
Fish are jumpin' and the heat dome is high.
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Code Wars: “Use the Source, Luke.”
Click the above galaxy for a larger image.
"O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell
and count myself a king of infinite space,
were it not that I have bad dreams." — Hamlet
Battle of the Nutshells —
From a much larger nutshell
on the above code date—
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The Yogi Force
On the director of the six-episode Disney series Obi-Wan Kenobi —
"She received her undergraduate degree, major of cultural theory
and minor in art history, from McGill University in Montreal …. "
— Wikipedia article: Deborah Chow
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Emre is the author of “Two Paths for the Personal Essay," |
"When you come to a fork in the road . . ."
— Yogi Berra
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Occupy Space Continues.
Alternate Title —
Types of Ambiguity:
The Circle in the Triangle,
the Singer in the Song.
From an excellent June 17 Wall Street Journal review of a new
Isaac Bashevis Singer book from Princeton University Press —
" 'Old Truths and New Clichés,' a collection of 19
prose articles, most appearing in English for the
first time, reveals that Singer was as consummate
an essayist as he was a teller of tales." — Benjamin Balint
From a search in this journal for Singer —
Related material —
From a post of June 2, "Self-Enclosing" —
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"… the self-enclosing processes by which late 20th-century
— Colin Burrow in the June 9, 2022 issue |
From the December 14, 2021, post Notes on Lines —
The triangle, a percussion instrument that was
featured prominently in the Tom Stoppard play
"Every Good Boy Deserves Favour."
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Tuesday, June 21, 2022
For the Church of Synchronology*
See also this journal on the above Cambridge U. Press date.
"There are many places one can read about twistors
and the mathematics that underlies them. One that
I can especially recommend is the book Twistor Geometry
and Field Theory, by Ward and Wells."
— Peter Woit, "Not Even Wrong" weblog post, March 6, 2020.
* A fictional entity. See Synchronology in this journal.
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