From "Sunday Dinner" in this journal—
"'If Jesus were to visit us, it would have been
the Sunday dinner he would have insisted on
being a part of, not the worship service at the church.'"
—Judith Shulevitz at The New York Times
on Sunday, July 18, 2010
Some table topics—
Today's midday New York Lottery numbers were 027 and 7002.
The former suggests a Galois cube, the latter a course syllabus—
CSC 7002
Graduate Computer Security (Spring 2011)
University of Colorado at Denver
Department of Computer Science
An item from that syllabus:
| Six | 22 February 2011 | DES | History of DES; Encryption process; Decryption; Expander function; S-boxes and their output; Key; the function f that takes the modified key and part of the text as input; mulitple Rounds of DES; Present-day lack of Security in DES, which led to the new Encryption Standard, namely AES. Warmup for AES: the mathematics of Fields: Galois Fields, particularly the one of order 256 and its relation to the irreducible polynomial x^8 + x^4 + x^3 + x + 1 with coefficients from the field Z_2. |
Related material: A novel, PopCo , was required reading for the course.
Discuss a different novel by the same author—
Discuss the author herself, Scarlett Thomas.
Background for the discussion—
Derrida in this journal versus Charles Williams in this journal.
Related topics from the above syllabus date—
Metaphor and Gestell and Quadrat.
Some context— Midsummer Eve's Dream.