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New today…
John Markoff in this morning's New York Times—

"…what is new in recent months is the growing speed and accuracy
of deep-learning programs, often called artificial neural networks
or just 'neural nets' for their resemblance to the neural connections
in the brain."

Not so new…
From the early days of Mike Lynch's Autonomy Inc.—

"Autonomy 's intelligent agents use neural networking
to search for patterns of information, rather than
specific words or phrases, thereby distinguishing relevant
from irrelevant information." (Business Wire , October 8, 1996)

And from 1999—

On the late Hugo Chávez:

"A couple of years later, I asked him why,
so late in the day, he had decided to
adopt socialism. He acknowledged that he
had come to it late, long after most of
the world had abandoned it, but said that it
had clicked for him after he had read
Victor Hugo’s epic novel Les Misérables .
That, and listening to Fidel."

— The New Yorker 's  Jon Lee Anderson

"As you can see, we've had our eye on you
for some time now, Mr. Anderson."

The Kernel of the Concept of the Object…

according to the New York Lottery yesterday—

From 4/27

From 11/24

A page numbered 176

A page numbered 187

Betty Skelton, "the First Lady of Firsts," died on the last day of August.

From this  journal on August thirty-first—

"The Tesseract was the jewel of Odin's treasure room."

Hugo Weaving also played Agent Smith
in The Matrix Trilogy .

For Cynthia Zarin, biographer of Madeleine L'Engle—

"There is  such a thing as a tesseract."
— A Wrinkle in Time

Today is Wednesday.

O.E. Wodnesdæg  "Woden's day," a Gmc. loan-translation of L. dies Mercurii  "day of Mercury" (cf. O.N. Oðinsdagr , Swed. Onsdag , O.Fris. Wonsdei , M.Du. Wudensdach ). For Woden , see Odin  . — Online Etymology Dictionary

Above: Anthony Hopkins as Odin in the 2011 film "Thor"

Hugo Weaving as Johann Schmidt in the related 2011 film "Captain America"—

"The Tesseract* was the jewel of Odin's treasure room."

Weaving also played Agent Smith in The Matrix Trilogy.

The figure at the top in the circle of 13** "Thor" characters above is Agent Coulson.

"I think I'm lucky that they found out they need somebody who's connected to the real world to help bring these characters all together."

— Clark Gregg, who plays Agent Coulson in "Thor," at UGO.com

For another circle of 13, see the Crystal Skull film implicitly referenced in the Bright Star link from Abel Prize (Friday, Aug. 26, 2011)—

Today's New York Times  has a quote about a former mathematician who died on that day (Friday, Aug. 26, 2011)—

"He treated it like a puzzle."

Sometimes that's the best you can do.

* See also tesseract  in this journal.

** For a different arrangement of 13 things, see the cube's 13 axes in this journal.

From an Instagram post today:

As for SIX — the non-musical —

For further details, see Lost in the Matrix.

“What kind of person bokehs an inscape?“

Perhaps the same kind that would bokeh Gugu:

From an earlier post, "Lost in Quantum Space" —

Encountered today  —