
Saturday, November 29, 2025
Friday, November 28, 2025
“Crucially”
From the NotebookLM notebook "Diamond Theory" today —
"Crucially, the underlying geometric symmetry
ties directly into the functionality of the
Miracle Octad Generator (MOG),
which models the highly exceptional properties of
the sporadic simple group M24."
The above geometric symmetry is based on properties of
the unique even prime number 2. For an introduction to
symmetry propeties of odd primes, see the previous post.
"If it's a seamless whole you want, pray to Apollo."
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
For John Dewey* — Experience as Art
* See other posts tagged Grammaton Cleric.
In Search of Queequeg’s Coffin
Illustration by Augustus Burnham Shute
"Victory in war should be received
with funeral ceremonies."
Or vice-versa.

Monday, November 24, 2025
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Film Director Dies Natalis
Alex Traub of The New York Times reported this evening (8:11 PM EST)
that New Zealand film director Lee Tamahori died on November 7 —
in Catholic terms, his "dies natalis," or date of birth into heaven.
In memoriam . . .
From Log24 on that date, in the post "Triangulating the Isomorphic Formalisms,"
an image from June 30, 2025 —
Related reading for the Royal Society — Japanese Bed and Harvard Miller.
The Four-Color Monoliths
Saturday, November 22, 2025
St. Cecilia’s Day . . .
Music for the Damned . . .
Take your choice from the many
successors of Doctor Faustus.
“Too much reality, T. S.?”
Friday, November 21, 2025
Hunting the Snark: “Some People Say . . . .”
. . . and "some people say there's a woman
to blame, but I know . . . ." — Adapted song lyric
Thursday, November 20, 2025
Song Adaptation
Country Music Award: Whirlwind Dreamcatcher
On Brick Space
A question suggested by NotebookLM in the "Diamond Theory" notebook,
and its answer today by NotebookLM —
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How are algebraic, combinatorial, and geometric structures unified within the Brick Space model? The unification of algebraic, combinatorial, and geometric structures within the Brick Space model is achieved through its role as a graphic, isomorphic representation of key finite geometries, particularly the projective spaces PG(5,2) and PG(3,2), and their fundamental relationship via the Klein correspondence
.
The term "Brick Space" originates from the arrays, or "bricks," coined by R. T. Curtis as component parts of his Miracle Octad Generator (MOG)
. These physical or graphic arrangements serve as a concrete visualization (or model) of highly abstract mathematical structures
.
1. Geometric Unification
The Brick Space model provides a geometric foundation for combinatorial objects through direct visualization of finite geometries defined over the two-element field, GF(2)
.
• Modeling Projective Space: The Brick Space model is the natural geometric setting for the MOG's components, which may be regarded as forming both the 5-dimensional projective space and the 3-dimensional projective space
.
• Visualizing PG(5,2) and the Klein Quadric: The model visually represents the space, which has 63 points, by partitioning these points into 28 points lying off the Klein quadric and 35 points lying on the Klein quadric
. The geometry of is linked to the concept of the 8-set
.
• The Klein Correspondence: The geometric relationship between and is formalized by the Klein correspondence
. The model, developed as a brick space, is analogous to the "line diagrams" construction of found in the Cullinane diamond theorem
.
• Lines and Points: The Brick Space implicitly models how the 35 lines of correspond to the 35 points on the Klein quadric in
.
2. Combinatorial Unification
Combinatorial structures, primarily partitions of sets and block designs, are mapped directly onto geometric entities within the Brick Space framework
.
• Partitions and Lines: The central combinatorial equivalence involves mapping partitions of sets to geometric objects
. The 35 combinatorial structures arising from permutations of diamond tiles (related to the bricks) are isomorphic to the 35 lines of . These 35 structures also mirror the 35 square patterns within the original MOG
.
• Partitions of the 8-Set: The lines correspond to the 35 partitions of an 8-set into two 4-sets
. This same framework connects to the 105 partitions of an 8-set into four 2-sets, which are essentially the same as the 105 lines contained in the Klein quadric
.
• Latin Squares: The combinatorial property of orthogonality of Latin squares (specifically, order-4 Latin squares) is unified geometrically by corresponding exactly to the property of skewness of lines (non-intersecting lines) in
. This provides a geometric dictionary for abstract algebraic combinatorics
.
3. Algebraic Unification
Algebraic structures, rooted in finite field theory and group theory, govern the behavior and symmetries observed in the combinatorial and geometric models
.
• Binary Field : The foundation of the geometry is the Galois field of two elements, (binary arithmetic: )
. The algebraic rules of dictate the structure of the affine and projective spaces represented by the bricks
.
• Binary Addition (XOR): The line diagrams used to formalize the patterns (related to the bricks) can be "added" via component-wise binary addition (XOR)
. The closure property of lines in is represented algebraically by the fact that the three line diagrams corresponding to a pattern always sum to zero ()
.
• Group Theory and Symmetry: The massive permutation group (of order 322,560) that transforms the visual patterns is isomorphic to the affine group
. This group, which explains the pervasive symmetry found in all -images, is the automorphism group of the underlying finite geometry, establishing the algebraic control over the system's geometric and combinatorial properties
.
• Ring Theory: The patterns can be endowed with algebraic structure to generate an ideal within a ring of symmetric patterns, leading to an infinite family of "diamond rings" isomorphic to rings of matrices over
. This links the geometry to the machinery of abstract algebra
.
• M24 Connection: The affine group is identified as the octad stabilizer subgroup of the Mathieu group
, linking the visual patterns and the underlying geometries to the abstract world of sporadic simple groups, coding theory (Golay code), and lattice theory (Leech lattice)
.
The Brick Space model, therefore, functions as a visual tapestry where graphic arrangements (geometry/visualization) encode set partitions (combinatorics) that behave according to the rules of binary algebra ( and affine groups)
. The entire structure is unified by powerful isomorphisms relating these three mathematical domains through finite geometries like and . |
Yale Art Note: The Hunt for Bleak November
For Doctor Faustus*
Design from 1514
"One of those bells that now
and then rings" — Song lyric
* And Royal Holloway University.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
For Harlan Kane (and SID 6.7):
Nutella Story
Nutella Story
Balenciaga Girl: The Northwest Corner*
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Now in Google’s “AI Mode” Search: Gemini 3
Thursday, March 14, 2024
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For Tomorrow: Product Nineteen
“This is the garden of Apollo,
the field of Reason….”
John Outram, architect
— This journal on October 9, 2006.
The Hunt for Nine October: Solidifying the Link
See also First and Last Things . . . and The Stephen King Version.
Monday, November 17, 2025
Slick Trick Meets Brick Trick
♫ "When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards…."
Related reading . . .
Boole as Psalmist
Compare and contrast Psalm xc, verse 2, with
the words of Optimus Prime — "Before time began . . . ."
Annals of Artspeak
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Understanding Media: Analogy
"Say hello to my little friend."
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https://subslikescript.com/movie/Hurlyburly-119336 — So what do you want to do?
You want to go to your place, You want to go to a sex motel? They got waterbeds.
They got porn I'm hungry. You want a Jack-in-the-Box? I love Jack-in-the-Box. Is that code for something? What? What? Is what code for what? I don't know. I don't know the goddamn code! |
Prose Style
"Vast realm . . . enchanting . . . capturing the imagination . . .
profound elegance . . . deep connections . . . ."
— Jarod Alper in the December 2025
Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
discussing a topic illustrated on the Notices cover.
Sounds to me like he's channeling SID 6.7 (or Mark Helprin).
Related reading — "Diamonds and Dogs" and "Wag the Tag."
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Small Town Theater Nostalgia (Stephen King Version)

Claremont Review
For philosophy professor Ellie Anderson of Pomona College —
A remark from Claremont Review —
"'Once upon a time' used to be a gateway to
a land that was inviting precisely because
it was timeless, like the stories it introduced
and their ageless lessons about the human condition."
– Dorothea Israel Wolfson,
Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2006
Some backstory —
See also The Word Wizard of Claremont.
Friday, November 14, 2025
“Deep Blue” Continues.
Related catchphrase for Saturday Night Live —
Six Seven!
A Moduli Space
On the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis —
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December 2025 Notices of the American Mathematical Society Jarod Alper, "Evolution of Stacks and Moduli" — "By a moduli space, we mean a geometric space whose points are in 'natural' bijection (more on what we mean by 'natural' in a moment) with isomorphism classes of your favorite mathematical objects, for example, Riemann surfaces or vector bundles on a fixed space. A moduli space is a solution to the classification problem: it packages all of the data of the geometric objects into a single space, a mathematical catalogue where any object can be located by selecting the corresponding point." |
Analogous notions:
Klein Space and Klein Quadric in this journal.
The Source:
Related art from a Log24 post of July 1, 2018 —
Greg Egan’s animated image of the Klein quartic —
Defining Form at Pomona College:
The Paul B. Yale Prize
The Paul B. Yale Prize
Hollywood Games . . . Which Rules Apply?
Pickwick-related material . . .
My own Pickwick Books favorite is a book I first saw there in the 1960s —
Definition,
by Richard Robinson,
Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford,
Oxford U. Press, 1954, reprinted 1962.
Springer Nature Link
For the Jumbotron display, see yesterday's 7:04 PM EST post.
"If called by a panther, don't anther." — Ogden Nash
The above "First Online" date — April 18, 2025 —
suggests a post from that date tagged Opening Number.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Art Logic: An Unlikely Story
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Annals of Blue Politics:
“Time to rearrange the deck chairs?”
"IT: The Widener" Continues.
The trove of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
that were released on Wednesday was titanic —
more than 20,000 pages.
— Glenn Thrush in The New York Times today
“Time to rearrange the deck chairs?”
“Wonderful Life” Meets “Coordinated Mapping”
Twelfth Step for Stephen King . . .
AA AI‽
Related horror: Colorful Story.
AA AI‽
Abstract Politics
From a search in this journal for "Roof Beam" —
Related reading . . . Gifted Special and
Schlossberg … The Interview.
Robby’s Song
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
New York Times motto (adapted) — “Get the full experience”
For Susan Sontag (and Red One):
Notes on Camp
From a post of June 13, 2008 —
Also on June 13, 2008 —
From yesterday's Happy Birthday post, a Fourth Dimension Ball illustration —

Notes on Camp
Monday, November 10, 2025
Happy Birthday, Kiernan Shipka
For Harlan Kane: A Belt-Buckle Tale
Sunday, November 9, 2025
Bloomberg, Berners-Lee, and
Chaos vs. “Rigid Tables”
A rather different perspective . . . Static Pyramid vs. Dytnamic Array —
Two other views of Whitehead's work . . .
Related images: Parmy Olson herself and "the test of time" on Dec. 11, 2024,
as well as a geometric tomb raider, also on Dec. 11, 2024.
Chaos vs. “Rigid Tables”
Windows Programming
"Does the phrase 'in the pot'
mean anything to you?"
"No? How about 'nine days old'?"

A Title for Kalpana Mahalingam* —
Monolithic Parallelism**
The date — Dec. 28, 2017 — on an arXiv paper suggests
a review of the Log24 posts of December 25-31, 2017.
From Christmas 2017 —
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"See the remarks today of Harvard philosophy professor Sean D. Kelly Alexander's "15 properties that create the wholeness and aliveness" —
This is the sort of bullshit that seems to go over well at Harvard. |
* See last night's post on Array Studies.
** See "In Search of Monolithic Tenure," as well as the
meaning in Sanskrit of the name "Kalpana Mahalingam,"
a post on Peter J. Cameron's "Seventh Seal," and
a four-color monolith (one of 105 such structures).
Monolithic Parallelism**
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Friday, November 7, 2025
In Search of Hidden Structure
Thursday, November 6, 2025
On Middlemarch: “The Patterns Are Out There!”
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The Hunt for the World’s Oldest Story From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we go—and what might we find? By Manvir Singh in The New Yorker
October 13, 2025 The Reverend Edward Casaubon is Eliot’s grand study in futility: an aging, self-important, faintly ridiculous clergyman who has dedicated his life to an audacious quest. Casaubon is convinced that every mythic system is a decayed remnant of a single original revelation—a claim he plans to substantiate in his magnum opus, “The Key to All Mythologies.” He means to chart the world’s myths, trace their similarities, and produce a codex that, as Eliot puts it, would make “the vast field of mythical constructions . . . intelligible, nay, luminous with the reflected light of correspondences.” The ill-fated project founders between the unruly diversity of cultural traditions and the fantasy of a single source, between the expanse of his material and the impossibility of ever mastering it, between the need for theory and the distortions it introduces. These failures are deepened by Casaubon’s limitations—his pedantic love of minutiae (he “dreams footnotes”) and his refusal to engage with scholarship in languages he doesn’t know (if only he’d learned German).
Casaubon’s quest stands as both an indictment of overreach and a warning about the senselessness of such sweeping comparisons. But is this entirely fair? The patterns are out there. Floods, tricksters, battles with monsters, creation and apocalypse—sometimes the resemblances are uncanny. |
"Before time began . . ." — Optimus Prime
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Annals of Academia:
In Search of Monolithic Tenure
In Search of Monolithic Tenure
Bullshit Studies — Boole Meets Dickens:
Triangulating the Isomorphic Formalisms
Triangulating the Isomorphic Formalisms
The Gospel According to Commonweal . . .
Via CHE, The Chronicle of Higher Education*
Via CHE, The Chronicle of Higher Education*
Baggage Claim
“Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November”
And perhaps also . . .

Tuesday, November 4, 2025
In Memoriam
Note the publication date of the above Devil's Gate image.
See as well this journal on August 23, 2020.
Monday, November 3, 2025
“Relentlessly”
The New York Times reports the Nov. 3 death of an actress —

The Monolith Mystery
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Transcript of NotebookLM video
Okay, so our first clue |
Scholium
Related material —
From a post for the opening of Cullinane College
on January 29, 2003:
"Young man sings 'Dry Bones'"
Illustrations:
See as well "Monolith" in this journal.
Bullshit fans may also enjoy "the monolith to El"
in James Michener's archaeology epic The Source :

Sunday, November 2, 2025
The Mystery of Brick Space . . .
. . . is the title of a NotebookLM video now on YouTube —
See https://youtu.be/6zUKg4dNEbM .
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The current NotebookLM summary for the Diamond Theory notebook, the source of the above video — "These sources comprehensively explore the deep connections between finite geometry, particularly the projective spaces PG(3,2) and PG(5,2) over GF(2), and various topics in combinatorics, group theory, and coding theory. Central to this discussion are the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) and the Cullinane Diamond Theorem, which model highly symmetric structures like the affine group AGL(4,2) and the sporadic Mathieu group M24 using geometric figures such as 4×4 arrays or 'brick space.' The geometry of PG(3,2), described as the 'smallest perfect universe,' is shown to be crucial, relating to concepts like Conwell's Heptads, Klein correspondence, spreads, and mutually orthogonal Latin squares (MOLS), which also have applications in error-correcting codes and quantum information theory involving n-qubits. Ultimately, these texts demonstrate how abstract mathematical symmetry is intrinsically linked across algebra, geometry, and visual art, often leveraging automorphism groups to reveal structural invariants." |

















































































































