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Sunday, December 31, 2023

Babes in Starland*

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Sally Forth on the Bicentennial and the Starland Vocal Band: 'Well, the mid-70s were a period of highs and lows.'

Amen, sister.

* From a Log24 search for Starland.

Leaving Las Vegas

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Cuaderno  for a Pale King

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"The King turned pale, and shut his notebook hastily."

Alice in Wonderland , quoted here on December 22.

Dia Mond*

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* "Mond"  is "world" in various languages notably Lombard.

Follow the Color

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Saturday, December 30, 2023

“The impossible takes a little longer.”

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See also a synchronology check of "Jul 8, 2023."

Friday, December 29, 2023

Logos and Branding: Wisconsin* Mystery Logo

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* For clues, see today's post 'The Fandom Thread"

" Say 'Cheese.' "

Mystery for language animals…
Did video, in fact, kill the radio star?

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:26 pm

Prelude to a Mattress Dance

The above "Take This Waltz" review is dated July 5, 2012.

Related material from posts of July 5, 2012

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A Wrinkle in Logic

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Also on March 8, 2018

Barbara Johnson, Nothing Fails Like Success, detail

This post was suggested by the word "entanglement' in the previous post.

See as well "Galois (Xor) addition."

Which entanglement… Threads or laces?

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Laurel Canyon . . . Continues.

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Image suggested by a New York Times obituary this afternoon —

The above YouTube date — May 29, 2018 — suggests a review
of a post in this  journal on that dateThe Schwartz Meme.

The Fandom Thread

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:46 pm

A post of Dec. 27  featured the internet threads.net logo below . . .

"In American English the @ can be used to add information about
a sporting event. Where opposing sports teams have their names
separated by a "v" (for versus), the away team can be written first –
and the normal "v" replaced with @ to convey at which team's home
field the game will be played." — Wikipedia

Unknowing

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Thursday, December 28, 2023

Basque Country Art Book

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Book description at Amazon.com, translated by Google —

Las matemáticas como herramienta
de creación artística

Mathematics as a tool
for artistic creation

by Raúl Ibáñez Torres

Kindle edition in Spanish, 2023

Although the relationship between mathematics and art can be traced back to ancient times, mainly in geometric and technical aspects, it is with the arrival of the avant-garde and abstract art at the beginning of the 20th century that mathematics takes on greater and different relevance: as a source of inspiration and as a tool for artistic creation. Let us think, for example, of the importance of the fourth dimension for avant-garde movements or, starting with Kandisnky and later Max Bill and concrete art, the vindication of mathematical thinking in artistic creation. An idea that would have a fundamental influence on currents such as constructivism, minimalism, the fluxus movement, conceptual art, systematic art or optical art, among others. Following this approach, this book analyzes, through a variety of examples and activities, how mathematics is present in contemporary art as a creative tool. And it does so through five branches and the study of some of its mathematical topics: geometry (the Pythagorean theorem), topology (the Moebius strip), algebra (algebraic groups and matrices), combinatorics (permutations and combinations) and recreational mathematics (magic and Latin squares).

From the book ("Cullinane Diamond Theorem" heading and picture of
book's cover added) —

Publisher:Los Libros de La Catarata  (October 24, 2023)

Author: Raúl Ibáñez Torres, customarily known as Raúl Ibáñez

(Ibáñez does not mention Cullinane as the author of the above theorem
in his book (except indirectly, quoting Josefine Lyche), but he did credit
him fully in an earlier article, "The Truchet Tiles and the Diamond Puzzle"
(translation by Google).)

About Ibáñez (translated from Amazon.com by Google):

Mathematician, professor of Geometry at the University of the Basque Country
and scientific disseminator. He is part of the Chair of Scientific Culture of the
UPV/EHU and its blog Cuaderno de Cultura Cientifica. He has been a scriptwriter
and presenter of the program “Una de Mates” on the television program Órbita Laika.
He has collaborated since 2005 on the programs Graffiti and La mechanica del caracol
on Radio Euskadi. He has also been a collaborator and co-writer of the documentary
Hilos de tiempo (2020) about the artist Esther Ferrer. For 20 years he directed the
DivulgaMAT portal, Virtual Center for the Dissemination of Mathematics, and was a
member of the dissemination commission of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society.
Author of several books, including The Secrets of Multiplication (2019) and
The Great Family of Numbers (2021), in the collection Miradas Matemáticas (Catarata).
He has received the V José María Savirón Prize for Scientific Dissemination
(national modality, 2010) and the COSCE Prize for the Dissemination of Science (2011).

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Quantum Kernels

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The previous post displayed a use of the phrase "quantum kernel"
by Prof. Dr. Koen Thas of Ghent University. Here is an example of
a rather different, and more widely known, meaning of the phrase —

Synchronology check (approximate) — Also from May 2023 —

Der Schlußstein des Gewölbes.

Notes Toward a Ghent Altarpiece

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From Prof. Dr. Koen Thas at the University of Ghent on 13 Dec. 2017 —

From this  journal on that same date — 13 Dec. 2017 —

Related material for fans of synchronology — both from Nov. 3, 2009 —

Nightlight  and  Summa Mythologica .

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Color Box

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:44 am

Monday, December 25, 2023

Some Like It Naughty

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:00 pm

Today's New Yorker  Christmas cartoon suggests a flashback
to Log24 on December 19 … A Copilot Called Otto

and an image of Otto as Santa —

"Doin' what comes naturally …"

Magi Gifts: The Obelisk and the Candle

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:53 pm

For some obelisk versions, see the previous post and a Log24 search.

“Weird Pharaonic Monument”

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Epigraph for Cormac McCarthy —

"When I got to high school the first place I went was to the library. It was just a small room with a desk and maybe a thousand books. Maybe not that. But among them was a volume of Berkeley. I dont know what it was doing there. Probably because Berkeley was a bishop. Well. Almost certainly because Berkeley was a bishop. But I sat in the floor and I read A New Theory of Vision. And it changed my life. I understood for the first time that the visual world was inside your head. All the world, in fact. I didnt buy into his theological speculations but the physiology was beyond argument. I sat there for a long time. Just letting it soak in."

— McCarthy, Cormac. Stella Maris  (p. 39).
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

From this journal on April 18, 2023

" NY Times  columnist's advice to the recent Harvard donor of $300 million —

'At least make them build you some weird pharaonic monument.' "

Illustration suggested by my own high-school library reading many years ago

Click to enlarge:

"Before time began, there was the Cube." — Optimus Prime

Xmas Gift: “The Devil His Due”

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Sunday, December 24, 2023

Infolded Perspectives

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Infolded:

“In the garden of Adding,
Live Even and Odd….”
— The Midrash Jazz Quartet in
       City of God , by E. L. Doctorow

Perspectives:

The Magi Lede

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Illustration by Sophy Hollington

Let Us Now Praise Famous Omega*

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   * The title is of course a reference to the Knoxville of the previous post.

Knoxville

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"Does Knoxville produce crazy people or does it just attract them?"

— McCarthy, Cormac. The Passenger  (p. 32).
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

See also Knoxville in this journal.

Saturday, December 23, 2023

Confabulation

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:00 pm

I recently read that the hallucinations of Large Language Models
are more properly called "confabulation." In this, they are not alone.

Speed the Coulter: The Cutting Edge

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Twining with Mingles

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"I will twine with my mingles of raven black hair
With the roses so red and the lilies so fair"
— Song lyric

Friday, December 22, 2023

A Memorial Paper Chase

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