From "The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic" —
"To store the programs as data, the computer would need
something new: a memory. That’s where Pitts’ loops
came into play. 'An element which stimulates itself
will hold a stimulus indefinitely,' von Neumann wrote
in his report . . . ."
— Amanda Gefter, Nautilus , Feb. 5, 2015
Related material —
"Here we go loop de loop" — Johnny Thunder, 1962
* I.e., Ben Affleck in his new film.
* See Stephanies in this journal.
See also Best Picture and, more generally, The Accountant.
Mark Zuckerberg in a commencement speech
at Harvard on May 25 —
"Movies and pop culture get this all wrong.
The idea of a single eureka moment
is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate
since we haven’t had ours. It prevents people
with seeds of good ideas from getting started.
Oh, you know what else movies get wrong about
innovation? No one writes math formulas on glass.
That’s not a thing."
THE ACCOUNTANT (2016) 8 p.m. on HBO.
Ben Affleck stars as Christian Wolff, an enigmatic mathematics savant
with special-ops-caliber skills who moonlights as a numbers cruncher ….
— The New York Times today, What's on TV Saturday
In other news today —
“You can’t play Batman in a serious, square-jawed, straight-ahead way
without giving the audience the sense that there’s something behind
that mask waiting to get out, that he’s a little crazed, he’s strange.”
— The late Adam West, according to The Hollywood Reporter
Update of 2:42 PM ET Saturday —
A note at the end of an article on architecture historian
Christopher Gray in the current online New Yorker —
This article appears in other versions
of the April 10, 2017, issue, with
the headline “Dem Bones.”
"Defeated, you will rise to your feet as is said of Dry Bones .
These bones will rise again." — Agnes Martin, 1973
Accounting for Taste —
Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty at the Oscars:
Ben Affleck, star of "The Accountant," at the Oscars:
See also Prisoner + Bones in this journal.
Or: Lost in Conversion
The main title is the name of Ben Affleck's firm in "The Accountant."
The subtitle was suggested by religious remarks in the previous post.
From "The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic" —
"The following June, 1945, von Neumann penned
what would become a historic document entitled
'First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC,' the first published
description of a stored-program binary computing machine—
the modern computer."
Image from von Neumann's report —
Version converted to text —
See also "Turing + Dyson" in this journal . . .
For a character that "spans both worlds,"
see posts tagged "Oscar Day 2007."
Related image data —
" 'No views' is good." — Christian Wolff
A Meditation on Two Dates
The dates are October 14, 2016, the release date of
the new film "The Accountant" —
"… clearer, more economical and formal, more liturgical."
— David Remnick on lyrics of Leonard Cohen
vs. those of Bob Dylan, quoted here on Oct. 14
— and May 12, 2016, the publication date of
a YouTube trailer for "The Accountant."
Also quoted in the May 12 post —
See as well the Ape with Skull (Affe mit Schädel) statue in
the Oct. 17 post Memorial Encounter. The version of the statue
pictured there omits the inscription "ERITIS SICUT DEUS"
in a book at the statue's base. There are related remarks on
Mephistopheles and Faust at a different weblog.
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