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Continued from Feb. 18, 2017 —

Related material — The previous post and . . .

Jersey Girls are Tough .

"Hi,  are  you  my  3  o'clock?"

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.

"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. 

"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 . . .

See posts tagged Weil Misery.

* Vide  a New York Times  obituary.

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 —

Cover art by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938.

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

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

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

— Adrienne Rich

Or not . . .

Cullinane diamond theorem —

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

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

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

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

May 18, 2023 10:24 AM Eastern Daylight Time

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.

(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.

"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/

"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."

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 . . .

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

Related material —

A Bosch Xmas

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

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.

From the previous post —

From a Log24 post of February 28, 2023 —