Other entertainment news . . .
I look forward to a University Diaries "Burning Man" joke.
Friday, May 31, 2024
For a Multifarious Giant
From posts now tagged VVV Day . . .
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:
GROTHENDIECK, A MULTIFARIOUS GIANT:
MATHEMATICS, LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY, ORANGE (CA)
— BECKMAN HALL, ROOM 106 MAY 24TH-28TH, 2022
Chapman University was also the academic home of
the famed John Eastman.
As for Grothendieck, see that name in this journal. He was
the subject of a notable 2001 essay, "A Mad Day's Work,"
subtitled "The Evolution of Concepts of Space and Symmetry."
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Art for Space Hoarders
"Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders:
they hoard space." — Douglas Coupland,
quoted here on May 18, 2017.
More-recent minimalist art —
In honor of the above Villains of Valley View, posts of June 3, 2022,
have now been tagged VVV Day.
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Hex Ad: The Six-Pointed Star
For the star of the title, see "Levi-Strauss + Stella."
For a related hex, see an academic's weblog post from yesterday.
For an antidote to that hex, see a Wikipedia article . . .
Contrast the academic's phrase below with Wikipedia's "Pantocrator."
I prefer Yeats's (and Pantocrator's) Byzantium as a "soulful country."
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The Geometry of Hexads and Duads
Not unrelated: Six-set Geometry.
For some historical background for the first (1984)
result above, see the second (2013) result.
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Thursday, May 30, 2024
Shadow Work
A New York Times piece today . . .
. . . suggests a review of the "shadow work" concept in this journal.
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Religious Game
The 132 hexads in yesterday's "Small Shapes" post suggest a look at . . .
From a biography of Aviezri Fraenkel in the above
2001 issue of The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics —
"As a scientist, Aviezri is interested in,
studies, creates and is involved in mathematics.
As a religious man, Aviezri is interested in,
studies, creates and is involved in Jewish knowledge
and heritage.
In 1962, during his stay in Minneapolis, while thinking
and discussing with a friend how computers could help
to advance Judaic studies, Aviezri conceived a very
original idea based on information retrieval, which
eventually became the unique Responsa Project,
known and used by the entire Jewish world."
I do not know what I was doing on the above publication date —
May 18, 2000 — but the following note from earlier that year
seems relevant to more-recent remarks here.
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Bucharest* Synchronology Check
From a motion picture filmed in Bucharest —
Meanwhile, in this journal . . .
* See the previous post.
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Wednesday, May 29, 2024
The Strong Law of Small Shapes*
Two examples:
The above note led to a letter from John H. Conway, which in turn
led to the following . . .
* The title refers to a well-known 1988 article by Richard K. Guy.
A shape from the date of Guy's reported death —
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Flop Flip
"The game is over, but … ." — Producer who reportedly
died on Saturday, May 25, 2024.
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Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Bullshit Studies: “Projective Opera”
Meanwhile . . .
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Bed Tricks
Some may prefer the bed tricks of Anna Friel ("The Tribe," 1998).
Less erotic, but still of interest — TRI.BE and tri.be.
See as well … "a green thought in a green shade" —
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Monday, May 27, 2024
Review
Matthew Hunter on May 22, 2024 —
And then there are large language models . . .
See machine learning on the Web and "emergent" here.
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♫ “This Old Man, He Played Two…”
Some literary background— Doctor Sax.
For The Pride of Lowell . . .
"Fewer letters, cheaper signs." … Business saying from CVS.
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The Sternwürfel Variations
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Sunday, May 26, 2024
Bullshit Studies: Grounding the Problèmatique
For Candlebrow University:
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Chess Opening
This journal on April 17, 2024 . . .
"Time for you to see the field." — Bagger Vance
More recently . . .
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Saturday, May 25, 2024
Coloring Books*
* Related remarks: Willard Motley on a Chicago color.
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Significant Production Role
"Colin Cantwell, an animator, conceptual artist and computer expert
who played significant production roles in seminal science fiction films
like '2001: A Space Odyssey,' 'Star Wars' and 'WarGames,' died
on May 21 [2022] at his home in Colorado Springs, Colo. He was 90."
— New York Times obituary quoted here two years ago
Related literature: The 1953 Philip K. Dick story
“Paycheck” —
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Seattle Build
From The Harvard Crimson , "Atlas to the Text," on March 8, 2011 —
See as well the new Atlas on Netflix —
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The Faustus Square:* Casting the Die
* See also The Faustus Square in the May 18 post "The Godfather's Art."
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Friday, May 24, 2024
For Harrison Ford at the Temple of Doom
Related philosophy . . . Apollo October.
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One Lesson
"At the present time there is no direct experimental evidence
that supersymmetry is a fundamental symmetry of nature . . . ."
— Introduction to the 1983 book
Superspace or One Thousand and One Lessons in Supersymmetry
Also from 1983 . . .
For direct experimental evidence of this symmetry, see . . .
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Harvard Commencement Ritual: “Free at Last!”
From the 1983 introduction, a caveat lector :
| "At the present time there is no direct experimental evidence that supersymmetry is a fundamental symmetry of nature, but the current level of activity in the field indicates that many physicists share our belief that such evidence will eventually emerge. On the theoretical side, the symmetry makes it possible to build models with (super)natural hierarchies. On esthetic grounds, the idea of a superunified theory is very appealing. Even if supersymmetry and supergravity are not the ultimate theory, their study has increased our understanding of classical and quantum field theory, and they may be an important step in the understanding of some yet unknown, correct theory of nature." |
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Thursday, May 23, 2024
Logo Design: The Maltese Parrot
"The stuff that dreams are made of." — Bogart
But seriously . . .
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From OSF . . . Among the positions that take this independence even further is Susanne Langer's approach towards meaning. Long before Derrida, she suggested in her chapter "The logic of signs and symbols" that we should understand meaning not as a relation to an author at all. Influenced by music and musical notation, she defines meaning instead as the function of a term from which a pattern emerges:
It is better, perhaps, to say: "Meaning is not a Reference: Langer, Susanne K., 1948 [1954]. Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art. Mentor Book. |
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