More "spots of time": "0915."
Friday, November 10, 2023
The Writer as Trickster: A Date for Loki
Altman’s Monster* Version of Musk’s Grok Logo
Cube Mine
In memory of a former president of Boston University —
Other posts now tagged Cube Mine.
Related entertainment —
Thursday, November 9, 2023
For Sally Field, Pain Hustler . . .
“Who Wrote This Script?”
"My father's house hath many mansions."
“Who Wrote This Script?”
Meditation for Schicksalstag
"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
The Enormous Mess
"Symmetry is the concept that something can undergo a series of transformations—spinning, folding, reflecting, moving through time—and, at the end of all those changes, appear unchanged. It lurks everywhere in the universe, from the configuration of quarks to the arrangement of galaxies in the cosmos. The Enormous Theorem demonstrates with mathematical precision that any kind of symmetry can be broken down and grouped into one of four families, according to shared features. For mathematicians devoted to the rigorous study of symmetry, or group theorists, the theorem is an accomplishment no less sweeping, important, or fundamental than the periodic table of the elements was for chemists. In the future, it could lead to other profound discoveries about the fabric of the universe and the nature of reality. Except, of course, that it is a mess: the equations, corollaries, and conjectures of the proof have been tossed amid more than 500 journal articles, some buried in thick volumes, filled with the mixture of Greek, Latin, and other characters used in the dense language of mathematics. Add to that chaos the fact that each contributor wrote in his or her idiosyncratic style. That mess is a problem because without every piece of the proof in position, the entirety trembles. For comparison, imagine the two-million-plus stones of the Great Pyramid of Giza strewn haphazardly across the Sahara, with only a few people who know how they fit together. Without an accessible proof of the Enormous Theorem, future mathematicians would have two perilous choices: simply trust the proof without knowing much about how it works or reinvent the wheel. (No mathematician would ever be comfortable with the first option, and the second option would be nearly impossible.)" — Ornes, Stephen (2015). "The Whole Universe Catalog : Before they die, aging mathematicians are racing to save the Enormous Theorem's proof, all 15,000 pages of it, which divides existence four ways." Scientific American, July 2015: 313 (1), 68–75. Reprinted in Stewart, Amy; Folger, Tim. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 (The Best American Series) (pp. 222-230). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition. |
Compare and contrast with the ChatGPT version.
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Deanery
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 Theorem as Big as the Ritz
Cullinane Diamond Theorem at
University of the Basque Country
See also Shibumi Continues — June 29, 2022.
University of the Basque Country
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Dreamcatchers
The sort of Adult Services I prefer —
Stephen King's Dreamcatcher (2001) and Brian De Palma's "Body Double" (1984).
If It’s Tuesday . . .
Monday, November 6, 2023
Letter from Birmingham Grid
"Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind
so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths
to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal . . . ."
See also today's previous post, from "Terminator Zero: Rise of the Chatbots."
First OpenAI Developer Conference Is Today
Sunday, November 5, 2023
Art Song
From a December 2021 obituary —
"I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time"
Old-Guy Aesthetics
For Guy Fawkes Day, images from first and last posts —
an alpha and an omega of sorts —
from this journal in the month of December 2021 . . .
Some remarks on an artist who reportedly died
on the second day of that month —
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Columbian Exposition
Phrase from a Wikipedia article on a "Columbian Exposition" —
"to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's
arrival in the New World in 1492"
Id est, 1892. Another exposition —
Matters of Exposition
Friday, November 3, 2023
Doubleday Date
"Birthday, death-day — what day is not both?" — Updike
See today's New York Times report of
an October 12th death, and Log24 posts
tagged Oct. 12 2023.
“About Who”
Loki Season 2, Episode 5, minus spoilers . . .
"… then he learns to control his time slipping.
It's not about where, when, or why. It's about who."
Midrash for fans of narrative . . .
Sometimes tattoos are more useful than Post-It notes.
Thursday, November 2, 2023
No Joke
Saturday, April 21, 2018 A Getty logo — |
For All Souls' Day —
T. S. Eliot — "… intersection of the timeless with time …."
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Würfelspiel
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.
“Omega is as real as we need it to be.”
— “The Osterman Weekend”
For art more closely related to the title "Alpha and Omega,"
see a different view of the above Hoyersten exhibition.
— “The Osterman Weekend”
Monday, October 30, 2023
Red October Revisited
A New Yorker piece from October 7th, 2023 —
"Terry Bisson's History of the Future" . . .
The "May 19th" name "was derived from the birthdays
of Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X." — Wikipedia
And then there is the May 19 Gestalt . . .
For a prequel of sorts, see a May 19, 2023, arXiv paper —
Related Log24 reading: Other posts tagged Kummerhenge.
Sunday, October 29, 2023
For Nevermore Academy
Log24 on Friday, April 14, 2023 —
“Why is a raven like a writing desk?”
Elsewhere on that date —
See also Eric Sheng at
https://www.ericshengphotography.com/about-avenue
and https://www.instagram.com/ericshengphoto/.
An Endgame for Beckett…
and Multispeech for Joyce
"In the service of which"
— a phrase from the previous post
See also the song lyrics in the subtitles of the
end credits in a Matthew Perry film from 2002.
and Multispeech for Joyce
“By these festival rites, from the age that is past…”
The Black Thumbnail
For the source, click here.
The 4/18 refers to the name of a Warren, PA, film production company,
Four Eighteen Films." The name itself refers to the April 18th birthday
shared by the company's two founders.
For the date 4/18 in this journal, see "April 18" and the tag "on0418."
Happy belated birthday.
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Spheres of Influence
Friday, October 27, 2023
Ford vs. Ferrari
Burning Man Meets Flaming Cactus
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Gala
Flashback from a Log24 search for Caprica —
Monday, July 3, 2017 |
From Log24 on July 2, 2017 —
"For times like these, the Reading View feature in Microsoft Edge
acts as your own personal horse blinders, stripping unwanted
distractions and rendering just what you want to see."
— Scott Orgera at lifewire.com, January 12, 2017
"Feeling of belonging to the virtual environment" —
Marcela Nowak, May 10, 2017
Not always a good thing .
Related reading from a Google search today —
“Unfathomable” Art
The previous post displayed the word "unfathomable" in a
summary of the June 15, 2023, Netflix drama "Beyond the Sea."
Vide "full fathom five" in this journal.
Light and Space* — Facilis Descensus Averno
A scene, at time-remaining 48:22 in "Beyond the Sea,"
that might be titled "The Landing."
* The "Light and Space" phrase is in memory of an artist who
reportedly died yesterday at 95 in La Jolla, California.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
For Judy Chicago, Née Cohen
From the University of Chicago Press…
The Nutshell:
Related Narrative:
………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
House Call
"When you build your house
Then call me home"
— Fleetwood Mac, "Sara"
“If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Art Update
Related travel writing . . .
The Boondocks – Lone Pine &
The Alabama Hills, California
See as well Lone Pine in this journal.
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Two Views of Mathieu Geometry*
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."
Monday, October 23, 2023
For the Church of Stephen King
Sunday, October 22, 2023
Space Dreams: The High/Low Life
See Claire Denis. Not unrelated —
For Bad Bunny
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 —
The Yellow Brick House (Not the Commodores’ Version)
For Emma Watson . . .
For fashion fans, a Truly Tasteless
musical accompaniment . . .
"Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie . . . ."
I prefer a companion piece —
Saturday, October 21, 2023
“Proof of Concept” at The New York Times
About the author of the above —
A related questionable "proof of concept" :
Aitchison at Hiroshima in this journal — a scholar's 2018 investigation
of M24 actions on a cuboctahedon — and . . .
For St. Ursula’s Day
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.”
Friday, October 20, 2023
Thursday, October 19, 2023
A “Doctor Sleep” Song…
For Vincent Patrick, author of Family Business (1985), who reportedly died on
October 6, 2023, a song that might fit the protagonist of Doctor Sleep —
See as well October 6 in posts tagged The Prize Shining.
Mathematics as a Language Game
From Peter Woit's weblog today —
A background check yields . . .
For the Church of Synchronology . . . Posts now tagged
Norwegian Spaceball Express
“42 Really Is the Answer”
"Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice . . . ." — Tom Lehrer
The Lineweaver* Citation
* See recent posts on the Schwartz-Metterklume method.
For Emma Watson — Elemental: Fire and Water
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
The Schwartz Is With Her.
See also, in this journal, Spaceballs.
Song for an X-Girl:
“Bring me my bride!”— Sondheim
“Bring me my bride!”— Sondheim
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
“A Fair Thought” — Hamlet
"Nothing can come from nothing," or
"Ex nihilo nihil fit " — Classic adage
"Creation is the birth of something, and
something cannot come from nothing."
— Photographer Peter Lindbergh
See as well Peter Lindbergh's short film of
Emma Watson with goat and horse.
"Elemental, my dear Watson."
Monday, October 16, 2023
For Harlan Kane — The Heidegger Conundrum
Sunday, October 15, 2023
For Broomsday Eve
Efficient Packend
"Stencils" from a 1959 paper by Golomb —
These 15 figures also represent the 15 points of a finite geometry
(Cullinane diamond theorem, February 1979).
This journal on Beltane (May 1), 2016 —
Light at the End of the Tunnel… Hometown Version
“Simplify, simplify.” — Thoreau
Logic at Edmonton
For some background, see Edmonton in this journal.
From the Edmonton professor, in the November AMS Notices —
See also Stillwell in this journal.
A Red Dot in Memory of Candida Royalle*
For another version of the helpful
video-positioning tongue icon, see
https://marcelanowak.com/port/harmonious-resonance/ .
* See tonight's previous post.
Purple Cocktail Napkins…
For Vegas Kool-Aid
From the Instagram history of Marcela Nowak —
… And other Vegas-related material —
"Can you make it any more complicated?"
For the Adelson* Sphere —
Saturday, October 14, 2023
News for a Stephen King Prom Queen*
* Sissy Spacek (1976). Some will prefer a more recent version.
May 19 Gestalt
The prominent role played by the date "May 19" in a New Yorker piece
from Oct. 7 — "Terry Bisson's History of the Future" . . .
. . . suggests a review of "May 19 Gestalt" in this journal
and posts so tagged.
“Teaching Position”
The title is from a recent poet's obituary.
Some will prefer other sorts of position …
From a search for "Audrey Grace nude" …
Midrash for Ben Stiller —
Click the above quotation for
other remarks from 2018-05-25.
For the First Church of Tweeland*
* See Babes in Tweeland (Oct. 3). I prefer other sorts of religious gatherings.
“Sally go round the sun,
Sally go round the moon….”
Related material —
And then there is Goddard College . . .
"Seeing the potential in an idea is everything."
— https://www.goddard.edu/person/darrah-cloud/
" Cloud’s father once asked her why he was paying tuition
if she was working at Goddard for free. Her reply?
'I can’t tell you — all I know is I can drive an ambulance now.' ”
Sally go round the moon….”
Review
Robert Stone " 'That old Jew gave me this here.' Egan looked at the diamond. 'I ain't giving this to you, understand? The old man gave it to me for my boy. It's worth a whole lot of money– you can tell that just by looking– but it means something, I think. It's got a meaning, like.' 'Let's see,' Egan said, 'what would it mean?' He took hold of Pablo's hand cupping the stone and held his own hand under it. '"The jewel is in the lotus," perhaps that's what it means. The eternal in the temporal. The Boddhisattva declining nirvana out of compassion. Contemplating the ignorance of you and me, eh? That's a metaphor of our Buddhist friends.' Pablo's eyes glazed over. 'Holy shit,' he said. 'Santa Maria.' He stared at the diamond in his palm with passion. 'Hey,' he said to the priest, 'diamonds are forever! You heard of that, right? That means something, don't it?'
'I have heard it,' Egan said. 'Perhaps it has a religious meaning.' "
"We symbolize logical necessity — Keith Allen Korcz |
Friday, October 13, 2023
Trauma and Loss . . .
. . . versus Elegance (a post from Augustine's Day 2003).
Hungarian Puzzle
See "Cube Space" + Lovasz.
This search was suggested by . . .
The conclusion of Solomon Golomb's
"Rubik's Cube and Quarks,"
American Scientist , May-June 1982 —