For tomorrow, All Saints' Day . . . posts tagged Würfelspiel .
This post was suggested by some 1973 remarks, made on receiving the
Heinemann prize at Göttingen, by a mathematician who reportedly died
on February 19, 2017.
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Würfelspiel
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“Omega is as real as we need it to be.”
— “The Osterman Weekend”
For art more closely related to the title "Alpha and Omega,"
see a different view of the above Hoyersten exhibition.
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— “The Osterman Weekend”
— “The Osterman Weekend”
Monday, October 30, 2023
Red October Revisited
A New Yorker piece from October 7th, 2023 —
"Terry Bisson's History of the Future" . . .
The "May 19th" name "was derived from the birthdays
of Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X." — Wikipedia
And then there is the May 19 Gestalt . . .
For a prequel of sorts, see a May 19, 2023, arXiv paper —
Related Log24 reading: Other posts tagged Kummerhenge.
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Sunday, October 29, 2023
For Nevermore Academy
Log24 on Friday, April 14, 2023 —
“Why is a raven like a writing desk?”
Elsewhere on that date —
See also Eric Sheng at
https://www.ericshengphotography.com/about-avenue
and https://www.instagram.com/ericshengphoto/.
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An Endgame for Beckett…
and Multispeech for Joyce
"In the service of which"
— a phrase from the previous post
See also the song lyrics in the subtitles of the
end credits in a Matthew Perry film from 2002.
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and Multispeech for Joyce
and Multispeech for Joyce
“By these festival rites, from the age that is past…”
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The Black Thumbnail
For the source, click here.
The 4/18 refers to the name of a Warren, PA, film production company,
Four Eighteen Films." The name itself refers to the April 18th birthday
shared by the company's two founders.
For the date 4/18 in this journal, see "April 18" and the tag "on0418."
Happy belated birthday.
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Saturday, October 28, 2023
Spheres of Influence
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Friday, October 27, 2023
For Sam Levinson . . .
Spaceballs . . . Merchandising!
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Spaceballs . . . Merchandising!
Spaceballs . . . Merchandising!
Ford vs. Ferrari
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Burning Man Meets Flaming Cactus
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Thursday, October 26, 2023
Gala
Flashback from a Log24 search for Caprica —
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Monday, July 3, 2017
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From Log24 on July 2, 2017 —
"For times like these, the Reading View feature in Microsoft Edge
acts as your own personal horse blinders, stripping unwanted
distractions and rendering just what you want to see."
— Scott Orgera at lifewire.com, January 12, 2017
"Feeling of belonging to the virtual environment" —
Marcela Nowak, May 10, 2017
Not always a good thing .
Related reading from a Google search today —
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“Unfathomable” Art
The previous post displayed the word "unfathomable" in a
summary of the June 15, 2023, Netflix drama "Beyond the Sea."
Vide "full fathom five" in this journal.
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Light and Space* — Facilis Descensus Averno
A scene, at time-remaining 48:22 in "Beyond the Sea,"
that might be titled "The Landing."
* The "Light and Space" phrase is in memory of an artist who
reportedly died yesterday at 95 in La Jolla, California.
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Barbenheimer for Bible Fans:
Valley of the Shadow of the Dolls
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Valley of the Shadow of the Dolls
Valley of the Shadow of the Dolls
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Dreamgirls: Kate Mara in Space Barn!
The above piece is from Bloomsday 2023. See also this journal
on that date, as well as . . .
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For Judy Chicago, Née Cohen
From the University of Chicago Press…
The Nutshell:
Related Narrative:
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House Call
"When you build your house
Then call me home"
— Fleetwood Mac, "Sara"
“If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Art Update
Related travel writing . . .
The Boondocks – Lone Pine &
The Alabama Hills, California
See as well Lone Pine in this journal.
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For Oppenheimer… and Indiana Jones,
at Halloween Season
Commentary on the "Gyrus" book —
http://numero57.net/2007/12/20/archaeologies-of-consciousness/ .
The commentary was written in the time of the winter solstice, 2007.
See also this journal at that time.
Related musical offering for Doctor Sleep: Lyrics to Nightshift.
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at Halloween Season
at Halloween Season
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Two Views of Mathieu Geometry*
For related remarks, see a reference from OEIS, A001438 —
David Joyner and Jon-Lark Kim,
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-8256-9_3">
Kittens, Mathematical Blackjack, and Combinatorial Codes</a>,
Chapter 3 in Selected Unsolved Problems in Coding Theory,
Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis, Springer, 2011,
pp. 47-70, DOI: 10.1007/978-0-8176-8256-9_3.
Today happens to be a related online-publication anniversary —
* A part of what might be called, more generally,. "figurate geometry."
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A Bond with Reality: The Geometry of Cuts
Illustrations of object and gestures
from finitegeometry.org/sc/ —
Object
Gestures
An earlier presentation of the above
seven partitions of the eightfold cube:
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Related mathematics:
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The use of binary coordinate systems
Natural physical transformations of square or cubical arrays See "The Thing and I." |
and . . .
Related entertainment:
Or Matt Helm by way of a Jedi cube.
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Monday, October 23, 2023
Elegy for Mrs. Davis*— When Starlets Are Produced
Mrs. Davis was the wife of Chandler Davis, an editor of
The Mathematical Intelligencer .
Related reading —
* Vide "Mrs. Davis" in this journal.
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Another Maniac Monday
See as well other posts now tagged Maniac Series Begins.
Related reading: A Sept. 29 review of The MANIAC , a novel.
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For the Church of Stephen King
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Sunday, October 22, 2023
Space Dreams: The High/Low Life
See Claire Denis. Not unrelated —
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For Bad Bunny
In memory of "an influential geometer" who reportedly
died on Monday, September 25 . . .
A check of that date in this journal yields the post
Hicks Nix Styx Pix.
An obit in that post suggests, in turn, a phrase for
last night's SNL host, Bad Bunny —
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The Yellow Brick House (Not the Commodores’ Version)
For Emma Watson . . .
For fashion fans, a Truly Tasteless
musical accompaniment . . .
"Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie . . . ."
I prefer a companion piece —
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Saturday, October 21, 2023
“Proof of Concept” at The New York Times
About the author of the above —
A related questionable "proof of concept" :
Aitchison at Hiroshima in this journal — a scholar's 2018 investigation
of M24 actions on a cuboctahedon — and . . .
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For St. Ursula’s Day
Click to enlarge.
The time loom engineer in "Loki" (Season 2, Episode 3, Oct. 19, 2023) —
"We need to scale the Loom’s capacity to manage
all those new branches, otherwise it will fail."
Ursula K. Le Guin in "Schrödinger's Cat" —
“Where is the cat?” he asked at last.
“Where is the box?”
“Here.”
“Where’s here?”
“Here is now.”
“We used to think so,” I said, “but really we should use larger boxes.”
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Iconology 2023
Some background on the square patterns shown in recent
posts tagged Iconology 2023 —
Click to enlarge.
See also Iconology in Wikipedia.
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Friday, October 20, 2023
Circle Zen … Continues.
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Artfield Invitation
Last night's touching dialogue on "Loki" between Victor Timely and
Miss MInutes suggests a review of a recent rather one-sided conversation
of my own —
Thus far, there has been no reply.
The "Loki" dialogue above took place in Chicago, a town repeatedly
described by novelist Willard Motley as a "blue-black panther."
Perhaps the email addressee has in mind the sage advice of
Ogden Nash . . .
"If called by a panther, don't anther."
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Scriptural Exegesis
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Scattering Ashes, Gathering Dust
Related art —
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From Savage Logic— Sunday, March 15, 2009 5:24 PM The Origin of Change
A note on the figure
"Two things of opposite natures seem to depend
— Wallace Stevens, |
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Thursday, October 19, 2023
A “Doctor Sleep” Song…
For Vincent Patrick, author of Family Business (1985), who reportedly died on
October 6, 2023, a song that might fit the protagonist of Doctor Sleep —
See as well October 6 in posts tagged The Prize Shining.
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Mathematics as a Language Game
From Peter Woit's weblog today —
A background check yields . . .
For the Church of Synchronology . . . Posts now tagged
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Norwegian Spaceball Express
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“42 Really Is the Answer”
"Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice . . . ." — Tom Lehrer
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The Lineweaver* Citation
* See recent posts on the Schwartz-Metterklume method.
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For Emma Watson — Elemental: Fire and Water
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The Metterklume Polonaise
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Math for Barbie
Continued from "Barbie at the Space Barn," Oct. 17.
"Open the Space Barn doors, Barbie." —
For those who prefer the Hollywood part of L.A.,
there is Barbierella —
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023
The Schwartz Is With Her.
See also, in this journal, Spaceballs.
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Song for an X-Girl:
“Bring me my bride!”— Sondheim
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“Bring me my bride!”— Sondheim
“Bring me my bride!”— Sondheim
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
“A Fair Thought” — Hamlet
"Nothing can come from nothing," or
"Ex nihilo nihil fit " — Classic adage
"Creation is the birth of something, and
something cannot come from nothing."
— Photographer Peter Lindbergh
See as well Peter Lindbergh's short film of
Emma Watson with goat and horse.
"Elemental, my dear Watson."
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The Venice Mirror: July 21, 2023
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Monday, October 16, 2023
A Harlan Kane Rite Aid Special: Chapter 11
From a search in this journal for "Chapter 11" —
Inner structure —
The above three images share the same
vector-space structure —
| 0 | c | d | c + d |
| a | a + c | a + d | a + c + d |
| b | b + c | b + d | b + c + d |
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a + b |
a + b + c |
a + b + d |
a + b + |
(This vector-space a b c d diagram is from
Chapter 11 of Sphere Packings, Lattices
and Groups , by John Horton Conway and
N. J. A. Sloane, first published by Springer
in 1988.)
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For Harlan Kane — The Heidegger Conundrum
Where's Y?
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Sunday, October 15, 2023
For Broomsday Eve
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Efficient Packend
"Stencils" from a 1959 paper by Golomb —
These 15 figures also represent the 15 points of a finite geometry
(Cullinane diamond theorem, February 1979).
This journal on Beltane (May 1), 2016 —
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Light at the End of the Tunnel… Hometown Version
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“Simplify, simplify.” — Thoreau
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Logic at Edmonton
For some background, see Edmonton in this journal.
From the Edmonton professor, in the November AMS Notices —
See also Stillwell in this journal.
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“Locking the barn door after the chandelier is gone” …
Continues.
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Continues.
Continues.
A Red Dot in Memory of Candida Royalle*
For another version of the helpful
video-positioning tongue icon, see
https://marcelanowak.com/port/harmonious-resonance/ .
* See tonight's previous post.
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Purple Cocktail Napkins…
For Vegas Kool-Aid
From the Instagram history of Marcela Nowak —
… And other Vegas-related material —
"Can you make it any more complicated?"
For the Adelson* Sphere —
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Saturday, October 14, 2023
News for a Stephen King Prom Queen*
* Sissy Spacek (1976). Some will prefer a more recent version.
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May 19 Gestalt
The prominent role played by the date "May 19" in a New Yorker piece
from Oct. 7 — "Terry Bisson's History of the Future" . . .
. . . suggests a review of "May 19 Gestalt" in this journal
and posts so tagged.
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“Teaching Position”
The title is from a recent poet's obituary.
Some will prefer other sorts of position …
From a search for "Audrey Grace nude" …
Midrash for Ben Stiller —
Click the above quotation for
other remarks from 2018-05-25.
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For the First Church of Tweeland*
* See Babes in Tweeland (Oct. 3). I prefer other sorts of religious gatherings.
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“Sally go round the sun,
Sally go round the moon….”
Related material —
And then there is Goddard College . . .
"Seeing the potential in an idea is everything."
— https://www.goddard.edu/person/darrah-cloud/
" Cloud’s father once asked her why he was paying tuition
if she was working at Goddard for free. Her reply?
'I can’t tell you — all I know is I can drive an ambulance now.' ”
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Sally go round the moon….”
Sally go round the moon….”
Review
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Robert Stone " 'That old Jew gave me this here.' Egan looked at the diamond. 'I ain't giving this to you, understand? The old man gave it to me for my boy. It's worth a whole lot of money– you can tell that just by looking– but it means something, I think. It's got a meaning, like.' 'Let's see,' Egan said, 'what would it mean?' He took hold of Pablo's hand cupping the stone and held his own hand under it. '"The jewel is in the lotus," perhaps that's what it means. The eternal in the temporal. The Boddhisattva declining nirvana out of compassion. Contemplating the ignorance of you and me, eh? That's a metaphor of our Buddhist friends.' Pablo's eyes glazed over. 'Holy shit,' he said. 'Santa Maria.' He stared at the diamond in his palm with passion. 'Hey,' he said to the priest, 'diamonds are forever! You heard of that, right? That means something, don't it?'
'I have heard it,' Egan said. 'Perhaps it has a religious meaning.' "
"We symbolize logical necessity — Keith Allen Korcz |
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Friday, October 13, 2023
Trauma and Loss . . .
. . . versus Elegance (a post from Augustine's Day 2003).
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Hungarian Puzzle
See "Cube Space" + Lovasz.
This search was suggested by . . .
The conclusion of Solomon Golomb's
"Rubik's Cube and Quarks,"
American Scientist , May-June 1982 —
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Artbox.group
This new URL will forward to http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=Solomon+Cube.
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Lightbox for a Friday the 13th
For a different sort of Lightbox, more closely associated with
the number 13, see instances in this journal of . . .
(Adapted from Encyclopaedia Britannica,
Eleventh Edition (1911), Crystallography .)
"Before time began . . . ." — Optimus Prime
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Turn, Turn, Turn
The conclusion of a Hungarian political figure's obituary in
tonight's online New York Times, written by Clay Risen —
"A quietly religious man, he spent his last years translating
works dealing with Roman Catholic canon law."
This journal on the Hungarian's date of death, October 8,
a Sunday, dealt in part with the submission to Wikipedia of
the following brief article . . . and its prompt rejection.
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The Cullinane diamond theorem is a theorem
The theorem also explains symmetry properties of the Reference
1. Cullinane diamond theorem at |
Some quotations I prefer to Catholic canon law —
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Ludwig Wittgenstein,
97. Thought is surrounded by a halo. * See the post Wittgenstein's Diamond. Related language in Łukasiewicz (1937)—
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See as well Diamond Theory in 1937.
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Thursday, October 12, 2023
“Another Opening, Another Show”
"Romy and Michele's High School Reunion opens with an aerial shot
of Venice Beach, CA, zooming (east) into the girls' apartment window."
Other views —
"Fake it until you make it." — AA saying.
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Void Game . . . Continues.
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From Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" — "Meaning, let us remember, is not to be identified with naming. Frege's example of 'Evening Star' and 'Morning Star' and Russell's of 'Scott' and 'the author of Waverly ', illustrate that terms can name the same thing but differ in meaning. The distinction between meaning and naming is no less important at the level of abstract terms. The terms '9' and 'the number of the planets' name one and the same abstract entity but presumably must be regarded as unlike in meaning; for astronomical observation was needed, and not mere reflection on meanings, to determine the sameness of the entity in question. The above examples consist of singular terms, concrete and abstract. With general terms, or predicates, the situation is somewhat different but parallel. Whereas a singular term purports to name an entity, abstract or concrete, a general term does not; but a general term is true of an entity, or of each of many, or of none." |
Example of singular and general terms —
"Marcela" and "art" in the URL "Marcela.art."
See as well the above "My Perspective" date — Aug. 23, 2017 —
in this journal, in posts tagged Pakanga.
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A Groping
Financial Times today informs us that the new 48-page novel by
Nobel Lit Prize winner Jon Fosse, with title translated as
"A Shining," will be published not on Halloween, as previously
reported here, but instead on the next day, All Hallows. Good.
The novel's original title, in Norwegian, is Kvitleik .
The Web indicates that this means "White Game."
See as well yesterday's post "Void Game." A relevant quote —
"By groping toward the light we are made to realize
how deep the darkness is around us."
— Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy ,
Random House, 1973, page 118
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Hot Snakes
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Wednesday, October 11, 2023
High Concept: Peripheral Visions
"Creality" ad in a music video —
The above "Montagem Coral" YouTube date —
Sept. 2, 2023 — suggests a review . . .
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Void Game
Fans of the phrase "God-shaped hole" may have some opinions
about what should fill the inner 3×3 void of the above 5×5 array.
Update of 3:53 pm ET — The White Paper —
The Source —
The Atlantic . . . Technology:
Washington and Beijing have been locked in a conflict
over AI development. Now a new battle line is being drawn.
By Karen Hao. October 11, 2023, 9:13 AM ET
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Curtain Up!
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Religious Art: Resurrecting the Scarecrow
Click or tap to enlarge.
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Exploring Color Space: Pinkie and Blue Boy
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“If It’s Tuesday…” Continues.
A nihilist altarpiece, from other posts tagged "Ghent Links" —
Some will prefer the "Better to light one candle" philosophy and . . .
Candle from Sense8, Season 1, Episode 1: “Limbic Resonance” —
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For Loki: The Deep Blue Standstill
Related reading —
A fact check on the release date of the Winehouse "Back to Black" album
yields two possible correct dates in October 2006. See this journal on those
dates —
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Strange Restaurant
For those less than charmed by the Baudelaires of
A Series of Unfortunate Events . . .
"Modern society, once it is somewhat more settled . . .
will also have its calm, its corners of cool mystery . . . ."
Detective Cruz enters Planck's Constant Café in "The Big Bang."
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Monday, October 9, 2023
Sub Mission: The Hunt for Blue October
More later.
Update of 6:06 PM ET — An image from a post of Oct. 12, 2008 —
Moulin Bleu
Kaleidoscope turning…
Shifting pattern
within unalterable structure…
— Roger Zelazny, Eye of Cat
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Sunday, October 8, 2023
Einführung
Metaphysics for the damned —
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From the 1979 film "A Little Romance" —
Reading something you It's just a book. I used to read those too. What is it?
An Introduction to Metaphysics,
School has changed I'm just reading it for fun.
Fun?
Most people think anyone
I don't. But I have to admit
Heidegger.
Heidegger isn't all that hard.
Like, "Why is there something |
… And for the not so damned —
The Source —
https://www.bard.edu/library/arendt/pdfs/
Heidegger-EinfuhrungMetaphysik.pdf
The actress playing the teen reading Heidegger in the 1979 film
"A Little Romance" was Diane Lane. The film was set in Venice.
Later in Venice . . .
Ben Affleck and Diane Lane at the 2006 Venice Film Festival
premiere of "Hollywoodland" :
An antidote to Hollywoodland . . .
The classic novel Under the Volcano :
"Here was finality indeed, and cleavage!"
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Sunday in the Park with The New York Times
nytimes.com/2023/10/08/arts/design/claude-cormier-dead.html
"Mr. Cormier, an avant-garde Canadian landscape architect
who created playfully subversive and much loved public spaces,
died on Sept. 15 at his home in Montreal. He was 63."
Somewhat less playful and subversive — This journal on Sept. 15 —
Poolman! (Toronto International Film Festival Review)
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Today’s Science Sermon
"Quantum accidents happen all the time.
Why haven’t I simply vanished into a quantum fizz
like Schrodinger’s cat, both dead and alive
at the same time? I can only conclude that
there is safety and stability in the astronomical
numbers of which we are composed.
Perhaps the large numbers constitute a bulwark
against quantum uncertainty. So I am here — I think."
— Dennis Overbye in the New York Times ,
Update of 1:20 p.m. ET the same day —
"And what is your bulwark against the Heisenberg group?"
Sunday, November 20, 2022
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Work and Play
"All work and no play . . ."
Sunday, November 15, 2015
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See as well "Livingstone" in this journal.
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