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"There might be, too, a change immenser than
A poet’s metaphors in which being would

Come true, a point in the fire of music where
Dazzle yields to a clarity and we observe,

And observing is completing and we are content,
In a world that shrinks to an immediate whole,

That we do not need to understand, complete
Without secret arrangements of it in the mind."

— Wallace Stevens, "Description Without Place,"
Sewanee Review,  October-December 1945

By Rahem D. Hamid, Harvard Crimson  Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 08, 2023 at 12:44 am ET

Harvard Dean of Science Christopher W. Stubbs is stepping down
at the end of the academic year, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean
Hopi E. Hoekstra announced at a faculty meeting Tuesday.

. . . .

A professor in Physics and Astronomy, Stubbs will continue to advise
Hoekstra on issues regarding artificial intelligence, according to Hoekstra.
Stubbs has made the incorporation of AI at Harvard a priority in recent months
and will be teaching a course on generative AI in the spring.

Musical accompaniment suggested by the previous Log24 post —

♫  "Deans could get no keener reception in a deanery."

The sort of Adult Services I prefer —

Stephen King's Dreamcatcher  (2001) and Brian De Palma's "Body Double" (1984).

For tomorrow, All Saints' Day . . . posts tagged  Würfelspiel .

This post was suggested by some 1973 remarks, made on receiving the
Heinemann prize at Göttingen, by a mathematician who reportedly died
on February 19, 2017.

"Send your camel-toe bed."

See as well  this  journal on October 15.

Background music: thepiano, from a post of Oct. 7, 2002.

For related remarks, see a reference from OEIS, A001438 —

David Joyner and Jon-Lark Kim,
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-8256-9_3">
Kittens, Mathematical Blackjack, and Combinatorial Codes</a>,
Chapter 3 in Selected Unsolved Problems in Coding Theory,
Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis, Springer, 2011,
pp. 47-70, DOI: 10.1007/978-0-8176-8256-9_3.

Today happens to be a related online-publication anniversary —

* A part of what might be called, more generally,. "figurate geometry."

From Walpurgisnacht 2023 —

From a Google search today —

In memory of "an influential geometer" who reportedly
died on Monday, September 25 . . .

A check of that date in this journal yields the post
Hicks Nix Styx Pix.

An obit in that post suggests, in turn, a phrase for
last night's SNL host, Bad Bunny —

Cosa Vuestra.

Click to enlarge.

The time loom engineer in "Loki" (Season 2, Episode 3, Oct. 19, 2023) —

"We need to scale the Loom’s capacity to manage
all those new branches, otherwise it will fail."

Ursula K. Le Guin in "Schrödinger's Cat" —

“Where is the cat?” he asked at last.

“Where is the box?”

“Here.”

“Where’s here?”

“Here is now.”

“We used to think so,” I said, “but really we should use larger boxes.”

"Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice . . . ." — Tom Lehrer

 * See recent posts on the Schwartz-Metterklume method.

http://log24.com/log/pix23/231018-X-Girl-at-Twitter.jpg —

In other X-Art news —

In memory of Charlie Watts . . .

See as well Hicks Nix Styx Pix.

* Sissy Spacek (1976).  Some will prefer a more recent version.