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Thursday, June 8, 2023

Arizona Highways: “The Southwest Furthers”

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An Artist’s Legacy

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A check of today's New Yorker  penbots yields
an entertaining piece on pop culture by Sarah Larson:

Perhaps, in death's dream kingdom, there is some guidance from
the illustrator who reportedly did the book cover in the previous post
one Hector Garrido.  

"Operation Childlike Innocence, Phase One."

— Sarah Larson, quoted here  on Sept. 5, 2015.

Garrido's dies natalis  was reportedly 19 April, 2020.
Synchronology check — Log24 search: "Wittgenstein Easter."

Pilgrimage . . . Not  the Sontag Version

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Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Links for Wednesday (and Nevermore Academy)

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1. New York Times  obituary from today

2. The name Caputo  in this  journal

3. Death and Venice: The Flyin' Lion

Exploring Color Space . . . Continues.

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"Another story" —

See also Sontag's own  account of the Mann meeting.

Related material —

It would seem that Moser is deeply confused about  two different
meetings of Sontag with Mann — discussing Doctor Faustus 
in 1947, and, later, as a U. of Chicago student, discussing
The Magic Mountain  with Mann in 1949 on the Feast of the
Holy Innocents — coincidentally, also the date of her dies natalis
(in the Catholic sense) in 2004.

Hermeneutics for Sontag:  Interpretation!

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Tuesday, June 6, 2023

Ornament

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Keeping Ahead of the New Yorker Penbots:
Runaway Cockrider!

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From Burning Man 2022 —

The source: https://www.tiktok.com/@marrific/video/7143118383100300590

From The New Yorker  yesterday —

 

The Usual Suspects

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'The Umbrella Academy' according to Wikipedia

For further details, see a Log24 post from October 2002 and . . .

See as well today's previous post.

Shadow Play: Ombre Ella

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Monday, June 5, 2023

Coordination: The View from Academia

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230605-Malsburg-on-pattern-simultaneity.jpg (500×365)

More-recent reading on different modalities:

"Microsoft believes a multimodal approach
paves the way for human-level AI."

Ars Technica , 3/1/2023

As for "pattern simultaneity in the real world," note the March 1 date
of the above Ars Technica  article, and some remarks here  on March 1.

Annals of Set Design

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Related dramatic dialogue from FUBAR

Hero — I guess I'll take the pill, and get it over with. (Dramatic music playing.)

Villain — This will be fun. (Music intensifies.) Cheers Nothing's happening.

Hero — Come to think of it, I might have taken the antidote.

Read more at: https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/… .

Related synchronology check —

Vienna Requiem

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"You put the lime in the coconut . . ."

Truth, Beauty, and The Good

Art is magic delivered from
the lie of being truth.
 — Theodor Adorno, Minima moralia,
London, New Left Books, 1974, p. 222
(First published in German in 1951.)

The director, Carol Reed, makes…
 impeccable use of the beauty of black….
— V. B. Daniel on The Third Man 

I see your ironical smile.
— Hans Reichenbach 

Adorno, The Third Man, and Reichenbach
are illustrated below (l. to r.) above the names of
cities with which they are associated. 

 

Sunday, June 4, 2023

The Galois Core

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  Rubik core:

 

Swarthmore Cube Project, 2008


Non- Rubik core:

Illustration for weblog post 'The Galois Core'

Central structure from a Galois plane

    (See image below.)

Some small Galois spaces (the Cullinane models)

“Design is how it works.” — Steve Jobs

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The Hitchcock Version

Saturday, June 3, 2023

Space Drama

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"It seems fitting that a handsome, professional and future-minded
space drama in fine color, like 'Marooned,' should open a new
jewel box of a theater, the Ziegfeld."

— Howard Thompson in The New York Times , Dec. 19, 1969

A related film tells of a real-life April 1970 sequel 
to the 1969 film "Marooned."

Then there is my own "jewel box" picture with three horses . . .

Lyric Poetry

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For those whose only philosophy comes from song lyrics —

See also … ADMAN PURSUED BY JEFFERSON AIRPLANE —

Gesamtkunstwerk for Wagner

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In memory of set designer Robin Wagner, winner of three
Tony awards, who reportedly died at 89 on May 29 —

From Log24 on May 29
and the preceding day —

"When the men on the chessboard
get up and tell you where to go . . . ."

Don't take the Brown acid!

IMAGE- Illuminati Diamond, pp. 359-360 in 'Angels & Demons,' Simon & Schuster Pocket Books 2005, 448 pages, ISBN 0743412397

Sunday, May 28, 2023

Breadcrumbs for Gretel . . .

Tags:  — m759 @ 3:47 PM 

Continues .

See as well Chess Set and Efficient Packing.

Friday, June 2, 2023

Annals of Philosophy

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James Hillman
EGALITARIAN TYPOLOGIES
VERSUS THE PERCEPTION OF THE UNIQUE

“The kind of movement Olson urges is an inward deepening of the image,
an in-sighting of the superimposed levels of significance within it.
This is the very mode that Jung suggested for grasping dreams —
not as a sequence in time, but as revolving around  a nodal complex.”

. . . Or, sometimes, as . . .

'A hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck'— Jake Tapper

Requiem for a Lyricist*

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See posts tagged Weil Misery.

* Vide  a New York Times  obituary.

Geometric Entertainment

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From Log24 on the reported date of Singmaster's death —

    Related geometric entertainment —

Grimness with Wit: Time-Space Variations on 101

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For the American  Nomenklatura —

The obituary's 101 above refers to time ,
the Stanford page's below to space .

Reichenbach’s Fell Swoop

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See The Eightfold Cube  and . . .

Truth, Beauty, and The Good

Art is magic delivered from
the lie of being truth.
 — Theodor Adorno, Minima moralia,
London, New Left Books, 1974, p. 222
(First published in German in 1951.)

The director, Carol Reed, makes…
 impeccable use of the beauty of black….
— V. B. Daniel on The Third Man 

I see your ironical smile.
— Hans Reichenbach 

Adorno, The Third Man, and Reichenbach
are illustrated below (l. to r.) above the names of
cities with which they are associated. 

 

Acid Test

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"Boro makes Jim Jones look like Jim Henson."

FUBAR, Netflix, Episode 1 (May 25, 2023)

"In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , Tom Wolfe writes about encountering 
'a young psychologist,' 'Clifton Fadiman’s nephew, it turned out,' in the
waiting room of the San Mateo County jail. Fadiman and his wife were
'happily stuffing three I-Ching coins into some interminable dense volume*
of Oriental mysticism' that they planned to give Ken Kesey, the Prankster-
in-Chief whom the FBI had just nabbed after eight months on the lam.
Wolfe had been granted an interview with Kesey, and they wanted him to
tell their friend about the hidden coins. During this difficult time, they
explained, Kesey needed oracular advice."

— Tim Doody in The Morning News  web 'zine on July 26, 2012

Related material — Brown Acid.

* The volume Wolfe mentions was, according to Fadiman, the I Ching.

Thursday, June 1, 2023

Universal Identity

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In memory of a public intellectual who reportedly argued in favor of
"a universal identity system" and died at 94 on May 31 —

Detail from an illustration linked to here  on May 31 —

Achtung, Baby!

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Cover art by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938.

Attention, Shoppers!

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The above detail from today's previous post suggests a review —

Garfield cartoon of June 24, 2008

Those who are not content to be merely entertained may consult
the date  of the above image . . . June 24, 2008.

For the House at Crary Corner*

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A website by today's MIT commencement speaker

* MIT-related news from May 19, 1961,
  in Warren, Pennsylvania  . . .

* "The Long Dark Trail" is the title of a recent film
directed by a later resident of 505 Market Street.

Toga Party!

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Geometry Toga Party!

"The stone may have contempt
  For too-familiar hands."

Adrienne Rich

Or not . . .

Antwerp Revisited: Diamond Space

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The opening of the new Netflix film FUBAR suggests a review . . . 

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Google AI-Powered-Overview Example

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Cullinane diamond theorem

"Finite geometry explains the surprising symmetry properties
of some simple graphic designs." Good summary.

May’s End

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23162/23162-h/23162-h.htm

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Benchmark

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"He stopped at a bench where people could catch buses
from Somewhere to Elsewhere." — John Crowley, 1981

 

Hat tip to Stephanie Dick, now at Simon Fraser U.

The Tour

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In memory of a co-founder of Hollywood's "Magic Castle"
who reportedly died at 92 on Sunday . . .

From posts that were tagged "Blake Tour" on Sunday

Seal 7 . . .

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Continues.

See John Baez this morning on Galois. Note that Baez's
report of Galois's dies natalis  is in error.

Monday, May 29, 2023

The Story Theory of Truth

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From the Feast of St. Nicholas, 2022

"Does the phrase 'vinegar and brown paper'
mean anything to you?"

See also other posts tagged Up the Hill.

Math for Preppies

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Mashup

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"When the men on the chessboard
get up and tell you where to go . . . ."

Don't take the Brown acid!

IMAGE- Illuminati Diamond, pp. 359-360 in 'Angels & Demons,' Simon & Schuster Pocket Books 2005, 448 pages, ISBN 0743412397

Sunday, May 28, 2023

Breadcrumbs for Gretel . . .

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Continues .

 

Sophia Lillis at Woodstock Music Shop

Annals of Philosophy: Shadow Hacking

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In memory of philosopher Ian Hacking, who
reportedly died on May 10, some Log24 posts
are now tagged "Shadow Hacking."

Related material — Plato's Ghost  in this journal, and . . .

For a Stuntman . . .

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… who reportedly died on May 25Posts now tagged Blake Tour.

Saturday, May 27, 2023

Dies Natalis

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A related question  — From posts now tagged Weil Misery —
(See today's previous post) . . .

Filters, Fog Machines, and Makeshift Devices

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The title is from an April 9, 2019, post, "Old Guy with a Cane."

Related material —

  Senis Baculus 

Friday, May 26, 2023

Capilla Abierta : An Exercise in Bulk Apperception

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The previous post suggests a review . . .

'Saddle Chapel' at Cuernavaca

The above remarks on topology  are, of course, about as well-informed
as the remarks of Barry Mazur on locales .

Saddle Design

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For the title, see Saddle  in this  journal.

Friday, October 21, 2022

Meta Wordmark

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 — m759 @ 12:00 PM

Some will prefer the saddle shape of 

    Capilla Abierta.

Thursday, May 25, 2023

Woo for Burton (Tara Isabella Burton, that is)

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"William Blake's statement in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
'Eternity is in love with the productions of time' is an adumbration
of the paradoxology of the game of hide-and-seek that Non-duality
is playing with and in celebration of itself in Ia divina commedia of
this night of its dream."

— Joseph Campbell in "The Inner Reaches of Outer Space" (©1986)

Related material from a Log24 search for "inscapes4"—

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Symmetries

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(In memory of Robert Zimmer, a mathematician
who reportedly died yesterday)

Quantamagazine.org Oct. 23, 2018 — Zimmer and symmetries

This  journal on the above date

Facilis Descensus

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230524-OUP-HUP-logo-downgrades.jpg (500×665)

Related reading — OxfordHarvard.

For St. Sara’s Day

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https://archive.org/details/
TheOxfordBookOfEnglishProse1925/
page/n333/mode/2up

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

“A Mad Day’s Work” (Hat tip to Pierre Cartier)*

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Logos —

Logos**

* See an interview.

** See other posts tagged Triangle.graphics.

“The Southwest Furthers”

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Monday, May 22, 2023

Triangular Hyperplane Arrangement

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Abstract: Boolean functions on a triangular grid.

Note: It seems that the above rearrangement of a square array
of hyperplanes to a triangular array of hyperplanes, which was
rather arbitrarily constructed to have nice symmetries, will
answer a question posed here on Dec. 15, 2015.

See a check of the rearrangement.

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Ingathering

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The reference to "Magic: The Gathering" in the previous post
suggests a review of "gathering" tales that I personally prefer —

Putting the “Art” in “Artificial”

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"So far, AIs produce abstract, almost surreal ideas, that
may lead you somewhere but have no consistent purpose."

— Greg Rutkowski, quoted on May 8, 2023, as below:

Source Code —

<title>What can be done to stop generative AI art? | Creative Bloq</title>

<meta name="pub_date" content="2023-05-08T07:30:27+00:00">

<meta name="description" content="These professional artists are
fighting back against generative AI art.">

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.creativebloq.com/features/
what-can-stop-generative-ai-art">

What if the AIs are named Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof?

Yesterday's "Electric Avenue" post suggests an image by Rutkowski
from "Magic: The Gathering" . . .

Saturday, May 20, 2023

In Memory of Author Martin Amis…

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who reportedly died yesterday — See April 11, 2019.

Ask Not . . . For Whom the Notifications Sleep

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The Big Bokeh

Quality

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Friday, May 19, 2023

Der Schlußstein des Gewölbes

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From a search in this journal for Beethoven

Thursday, May 18, 2023

The Grave Dancer

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CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE) — It is with profound sadness
that Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR) mourns the death of its
Founder and Chairman, Samuel Zell, who died today at age 81.

New York CNN — 

By Allison Morrow, CNN

Updated 12:38 PM EDT, Thu May 18, 2023

Sam Zell, the Chicago real-estate magnate whose knack for buying up distressed assets turned him into a billionaire and earned him the nickname “grave dancer,” died on Thursday, his company said. He was 81.

Equity Residential, the company he founded decades ago, did not provide a cause of death but described Zell as an “iconic figure in real estate and throughout the corporate world.”

Among his wide-ranging portfolio of investments were distressed assets in real estate and in media, including an ultimately disastrous bet on the Tribune Company. Zell had a personal net worth of $5.9 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Zell had a penchant for scooping up cheap real estate and selling it later at a profit, a strategy he outlined in a 1978 article titled “The Grave Dancer,” which became his nickname in the industry.

“I was dancing on the skeletons of other people’s mistakes,” he wrote.

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Barometers of Appropriateness

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LOOPER / BRANDON SHOAFF / MARCH 21, 2023 5:55 PM EST

"Speaking of artificial intelligence, it seems as if the creators of 'Mrs. Davis' have ironically chosen to utilize A.I. in the show's production. During a panel at the film festival South by Southwest, Lindelof mentioned how they used artificial intelligence and said, 'We thought it would be fun to build an A.I. that would title our episodes, and that we just basically said that whatever it comes up with, we have to stick to as long as it is appropriate for whatever barometers of appropriateness exist.'

Damon Lindelof continued and explained that in the process of creating the A.I. that would title episodes for the upcoming 'Mrs. Davis,' the artificial intelligence struggled to understand what a title actually was, despite the information that was filtered through the program. Lindelof then said that the entire production crew learned a great deal about algorithms and how A.I. works while attempting to get it to generate episode titles. In the end, Lindelof and the rest of the crew were quite happy with the results, noting that Episode 7 is titled 'Great Gatsby: 2001: A Space Odyssey.' "

Read More: https://www.looper.com/1234974/
mrs-davis-how-the-creators-actually-utilized-ai-
in-the-writers-room/

See also the previous post and "Merton College" in this  journal.

British Combinatorics 2023

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"Martin told us about his work on machine learning…."

Peter J. Cameron reports on last week's (May 10 and 11)
London Combinatorics Colloquia 2023.

Related material — Boolean Functions in this journal and in a book
from May 16, 2011 . . .

Some historical background on machine learning —

https://tripleampersand.org/kernelled-connections-perceptron-diagram/ .

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

The Cassirer in the Rye

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From the American Mathematical Society today —

Robert Earl Tubbs (1954-2023)
May 15, 2023

"Tubbs, associate professor of mathematics at
the University of Colorado Boulder, died April 11, 2023,
at the age of 69. He received his PhD in 1981 from
Penn State University under the supervision of 
W. Dale Brownawell. His research interests included
number theory, especially transcendental number theory,
the intellectual history of mathematical ideas and mathematics,
and the humanities."

This  journal on the dies natalis  of Tubbs had the third of three
posts tagged "Space and Form."  Those posts dealt with European
cultural history related to Tubbs's interests. The "Space and Form"
posts, along with today's previous Log24 post, suggest a review of
the Nov. 10, 2021 post titled European Culture.  An image from that post —

Those who share Cassirer's enthusiasm for myth may regard the
above Josefine Lyche version of my work as a sort of "secret writing,"
to quote a phrase of Cassirer's I find very distasteful. But there is nothing
secret  about it, although there is some resemblance to written characters.

This  post's title was suggested by a Salinger quote in the European Culture post.

Update on the next day, May  17 —

Further reading in Cassirer's Mythical Thought  indicates that in the
passages above, on Schelling, he may be presenting a parody of
Schelling when he writes "a poem hidden behind a wonderful
secret writing."  Later, on page 10, he asks, sensibly, 

"… is there, perhaps, a means of retaining the question
put forward by Schelling's Philosophie der Mythologie
but of transferring it from the sphere of a philosophy of
the absolute to that of critical philosophy?"

There has reportedly been "an upsurge of interest" in Cassirer —

Monday, May 15, 2023

Art Theory

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Chatbot Review

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 9:49 pm
 

By ChatGPT* — 

What is the Cullinane diamond theorem? 
5/10/2023, revised as below on 5/15/2023

The Cullinane Diamond Theorem, also known as the Diamond Theorem, is a result in combinatorial mathematics proposed by Steven H. Cullinane. The theorem explores connections between finite geometries, algebraic structures, and combinatorial designs. 

The theorem is primarily concerned with four related structures:
 
1. Finite geometries: Specifically, the theorem relates to finite projective geometries over finite fields, such as projective planes and projective spaces. 

2. Vector spaces: The theorem connects finite vector spaces over finite fields to the aforementioned finite geometries. 

3. Boolean functions:* The theorem establishes relationships between the finite geometries and certain Boolean functions derived from them. 

4. Symmetry groups: The theorem involves symmetry groups associated with the finite geometries.
 
The precise details and implications of the Cullinane Diamond Theorem are beyond the scope of this response. It involves abstract algebra, group theory, combinatorial designs, and finite fields. The theorem has been the subject of various publications and research discussions in mathematical literature. If you are interested in delving deeper into the Cullinane Diamond Theorem, I recommend referring to the original works by Steven H. Cullinane and related research articles on the topic.

* With one revision by Cullinane: "Boolean functions" replaces "Boolean algebras." See (for instance) M. A. Harrison, “On the classification of Boolean functions by the general linear and affine groups,” Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics  1964 12:2, 285-299.

Boolean Functions Review

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The previous post included an illustration by Solomon Golomb
from his 1959 paper "On the Classification of Boolean Functions."

This suggests a review of some later work in this area —

This post was suggested by the word "Boolean" in a May 10
ChatGPT response —

In the above, "Boolean algebras" should be "Boolean functions,"
as indicated by Harrison's 1964 remarks.

Death on Beltane

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"Stencils" from a 1959 paper by Golomb —

Boolean functions illustration by Golomb, 1959

These 15 figures also represent the 15 points of a finite geometry
(Cullinane diamond theorem, February 1979).

This  journal on Beltane (May 1), 2016 —

Sunday, May 14, 2023

“At the Bottom of Reality”

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(Title phrase by Lee E. Mosley)

"Where past and future are gathered" — T. S. Eliot

(Image from a post of June 28, 2020.)

Sunday School —

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:56 am

Terminator Zero: Rise of the Chatbots

“The Structure of Space”

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The above title. by one Lee E. Mosley, is from 

"CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform;
1st edition (June 4, 2017).
"

From the preface —

"So simple . . . ."

"Building blocks"? — See the literature of pop physics.

Natural companions to building blocks, are, of course, 
"permutation groups."

See the oeuvre  of physics writer John Baez —
For instance, in a Log24 post from the above Mosley
publication date — June 4, 2017 —

Saturday, May 13, 2023

The Identity of an Entity

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From posts of Walpurgisnacht 2023

Multicultural Memorial:  Death and Venice

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Variety.com May 8, 2023, 1:45 AM PT —

“Pema Tseden, a famous Tibetan director, screenwriter and
professor at the Film School of the China Academy of Art,
died in Tibet in the early hours of May 8 due to an acute illness." 

"The news was reported by the China Academy of Art."

The time in Lhasa, Tibet, is 12 hours ahead of New York time.

From this journal in the afternoon of May 7 (New York time) —

For a relationship between the above image and classic Chinese culture,
see Geometry of the I Ching.

A memorial image from Variety

Tseden with the award for best screenplay at Venice on Sept. 8, 2018.

See also that date in this  journal . . . Posts now tagged Space Structure.

Friday, May 12, 2023

Famous Chatbot School

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Summary of a TV episode from yesterday that seems like
it was written by a hallucinating chatbot —

In other chatbot news . . .

As for 2001 . . . See "Notes from a (Paper) Journal 1993-2001."

Number and Time

Filed under: General — m759 @ 8:36 am

(Title purloined from Marie-Louise von Franz.)

BCE/CE — A game with three letters … See Michener Game.

BC/AD — A game with four letters … See Eddington Game.

ABCDE — A game with five letters … See Simplex.

Thursday, May 11, 2023

Beach Song for Sister Simone

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Today's "Mrs. Davis" episode ends with Sister Simone
on a beach being sung to by a beachgoer choir.

This bizarre plot twist suggests some other images —

Also from March 8, 2020 —

The above Puchner remarks on the Communist Manifesto featured 
a banner at the top crediting "California State University, Chico."

More recently, from this  journal —

Besides "Mrs. Davis," this post was suggested by . . .

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/
is-multiculturalism-an-oxymoron-on-martin-puchners-culture/
.

Approaching the End of the Route

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Images suggested by the above route number, 948 —

This post was suggested by the reported death last Friday (May 5)
at 91 of Christian Alexander Maria Strachwitz, folk music collector.

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Elegy in a Cartoon Graveyard

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:59 pm

Cartoonist obit published 2023-05-10T22:29:03.000Z

See also posts now tagged Parable.

What’s in a Name (or Number)?

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Puzzle Begun: Barnes Foundations

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Albert Barnes —

Cliff Barnes —

Jake Barnes —


   "Isn't it pretty to think so?"

Saving the Appearances

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Douglas Hofstadter —

“… I realized that to me,
Gödel and Escher and Bach
were only shadows
cast in different directions by
some central solid essence.
I tried to reconstruct
the central object, and
came up with this book.”

Goedel Escher Bach cover

Related images —

Image-- Escher's 'Verbum'

Escher’s Verbum

Image-- Solomon's Cube

Solomon’s Cube

ChatGPT Improves

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Previous ChatGPT responses to questions like those below
have been, to put it mildly, lacking in accuracy. But there has
lately been considerable improvement . . .

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Embedding Space

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"Ideally, a single joint embedding space — where many different kinds
of data are distributed — could allow a model to learn visual features
along with other modalities."

— https://ai.facebook.com/blog/imagebind-six-modalities-binding-ai/

The Blacklist School

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The most recent "Blacklist" episode suggests a review —

"Where past and future are gathered" — Four Quartets

Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It

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"To achieve our mission of bringing everyone the inspiration
to create a life they love, we need to personalize our content
with our user’s interests and context, taking into consideration
feedback a user has given on their Pinterest journey; i.e., we
need a strong representation of our users."

From the arXiv one year ago, on 9 May 2022

See as well this  journal on that date — "Will the Circle."

Alternate Film Title: Something, Somewhere, Sometime

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"Long promised road
Flows to the source, gentle force"

— The Beach Boys

From a post of June 10, 2013

Plan 9: The Center

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The Lo Shu as a Finite Space

Monday, May 8, 2023

The Eighth Day… Continues.

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From my hometown newspaper
on the eve of my 16th birthday —

Sunday, May 7, 2023

Logos

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For the title, see Logos  in this journal.

Some examples —

"Please wait as your operating system is initiated."

New Queen

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:56 pm

This post is in memory of Adam Brace, a British comedy director.
His dies natalis  is reported to be April 29, 2023.

See also Dramarama and, from the above story's date . . .

Windows Programming: The Postman

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:09 pm

From "The Postman," the most recent "Blacklist" episode —

Related material —

A Bosch Xmas

Cicely Tyson as the future Mrs. Davis … Mrs. Miles  Davis —

In Search of the Good: A Postman for Sunrise

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The above title was suggested by the previous post.

Wikipedia on "Sunrise Semester" in 1976 —

Neil Postman taught a course, Communication,
The Invisible Environment
, in the Fall of 1976.[7]

The cited link —

See also a search for Postman in this journal.

The Good, the Banal, and the Mayhem

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:46 am

For the Latin Club Gang: Tabula Rasa

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:52 am

From the previous post

From a Log24 post of February 28, 2023 —

Dead Time: A Rabbit Hole Named Desire

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For the above title, see a Log24 search.

Related material:

Oscar Hammerstein in Episode 6 of "Mrs. Davis" —

Flores para los Muertos

Saturday, May 6, 2023

The Chico Hallows

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:33 pm

The above illustration is from Log24 on the dies natalis
day of birth into heaven, in the Catholic tradition —
of Grace C. Hertlein, a sort of patron saint of computer art
from Chico, California, who reportedly died at 91 in 2015.

It supplies the parts missing from a J. K. Rowling design
See Cinco de Mayo , 2011.

Degenerate and Illusory

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(Title suggested by the previous post)

"Like a ghost from a wishing well" — Song lyric

Point Six

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(TItle suggested by the song lyric "Hey, ninety-eight point six . . .")

IMAGE- Alan McGlashan on 'the Hidden Treasure, which is the Center'

(From a search in this journal for McGlashan )

Friday, May 5, 2023

High Concept: Retrofuture

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:30 pm

The title is taken from the New York Times  obituary
of an artist who reportedly died today.

See also the retrofuture concept in this  journal.

Dungeons, Dragons, and Wishing Wells

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This journal ten years ago today

This journal on April 10, 2022

Be careful what you wish for.

You might get . . .

Steven Strogatz and the Time Crystal .

For St. Corky Lee

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Today's Google Doodle honors a Chinese-American photographer
who reportedly died on January 27, 2021.

From his dies natalis  (birth into heaven, in the Catholic tradition) —

See as well some background on a Chinese-related cube.

For the Latin Club Gang:  Sigillum Veri

Filed under: General — m759 @ 5:55 am

From http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=SIMPLEX

Inside Story

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The Bermuda Octahedron


Related narrative —

This post was suggested by the Möbius Dick  air date
August 4, 2011 — in this  journal.

A Bigger Boat

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Earlier in this journal  . . .


 

". . . A  bigger  boat."

The Singularity Speaks

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"Extremely  elementary," my dear Watson.

For the Dragon School . . .

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. . . and Peter Straub, author of Floating Dragon

"We all float down here."  

Religious Vocabulary — “Hier Stehe Ich”

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"I stood quietly, like a fսcking moron . . ."

Read more at:
https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/
viewtopic.php?f=1820&t=62232

Thursday, May 4, 2023

The Hemingway Clause

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Sorkin in Paris:  Walk and Talk


"Isn't it pretty to think so?"

For Stephen King’s Night Table

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Click the night-table book for a musical accompaniment.

Into the West: Coachella* Concert

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A trip down Memory Lane with the Eurythmics, and
a lullaby from Steely Dan.

"Some prefer more rural tunes . . . "

"I want to ride to the ridge where the West commences . . ."

* See a Log24 post of April 26, 2023.

Religious Vocabulary —

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   Confirmation Hell: The Source

For Blacklist  Fans: The Intelligencers

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A different "Intelligencer" logo —

See my own remarks in the mathematical  Intelligencer.

“The Nothing That Is”*

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   The New York Times  reports a March 26 death —

* Results of a title search —

For Thalia — "Apart from that, Mrs. Kaplan . . ."

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Art Lesson for Doktor Faustus

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Exercise Show that Dürer's 1514 "magic" square is an affine automorphism.

For a solution, see other posts now tagged Affine Squares.

Art Lesson for Bardo College

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Helen Mirren with plastic Gankyil .

See also Wikipedia.

Kernels

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Continued from yesterday's "Kernel" —

The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) 
has a news release today on an expert on "kernels,"
in the sense that they are used in AI —

"Schölkopf [link added] is recognized for his
widely used research in machine learning,
advancing both mathematical foundations and
a broad range of applications in science and
industry."

From Schölkopf in 2002 —

Personal  Folklore

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:42 am

From my hometown newspaper
on the eve of my 16th birthday —

"Just the facts, ma'am." 
— A saying falsely attributed to the
LAPD's Sergeant Joe Friday .

Folklore

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:58 am

"Piotr Grochowski's 'Miracles and Visionaries in the Digital Age'
explores the impact of digital technolgies in Catholic Apparitional
movements." (links added) — Journal of American Folklore
Fall issue, October 2022 preview.

As for "Miracles and Visionaries," I prefer the literature associated
with the 1974 Miracle Octad Generator  of R. T. Curtis.

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

To Phrase a Coin

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In lieu of a Fields medal . . .

https://www.armstrong.edu/history-journal/history-journal-myth-ritual-and-the-labyrinth-of-king-minos

Kernel

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:32 pm

From a post of September 24, 2011 —

Weyl on coordinate systems,
Cassirer on the kernel of being,
and A Study in Art Education.

Digital Heaven: Cloud Nine

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:39 pm

Secular viewers during the writers' strike must rely on AI . . .

 

“If You Could Read My Mind, Love . . .”

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:17 am

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