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Friday, April 23, 2021
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Canonicity* Illustrated: The Offensive Tet
* “Canonicity” is a reference to the previous post.
See as well Tetrahedron vs. Square and Algebra for Schoolgirls.
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Canonicity
Review:
Note the "Milestones" date of receipt — 25 January 2012.
This journal on the eve of the above "Milestones" date —
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Friday, April 28, 2023
The Large Language Model
"… sometimes large models undergo a 'discontinuous phase shift'
where the model suddenly acquires substantial abilities not seen
in smaller models. These are known as 'emergent abilities,' and
have been the subject of substantial study." — Wikipedia
See also the first five episodes of "Mrs. Davis."
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Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Onestone Parable
“You’re literally looking for like a one in a million thing.
You filter out the 999,999 of the boring ones, then
you’ve got something that’s weird, and then that’s worth
further exploration.”
— Quote from a mathematics story today at Gizmodo
A different "one in a million" mathematics story —
On Steiner Quadruple Systems of Order 16.
See also Galois Tesseract.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Raiders of the Lost Coordinates
Variations on the title theme —
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Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Portrait with Holocron
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Monday, April 18, 2016
The Philosopher’s Apprentice…
… is a novel by James Morrow reviewed in The New York Times
on March 23, 2008:
"Morrow’s inventiveness is beguiling, as are his delight
in Western philosophy and his concern for the sorry state
of the world. Yet there’s also something comic-bookish
about his novel…."
"Something comic-bookish"
in memory of Albert Einstein,
who reportedly died on this date
in 1955 —
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Screwing
"Debates about canonicity have been raging in my field
(literary studies) for as long as the field has been
around. Who's in? Who's out? How do we decide?"
— Stephen Ramsay, "The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around"
An example of canonicity in geometry—
"There are eight heptads of 7 mutually azygetic screws, each consisting of the screws having a fixed subscript (from 0 to 7) in common. The transformations of LF(4,2) correspond in a one-to-one manner with the even permutations on these heptads, and this establishes the isomorphism of LF(4,2) and A8. The 35 lines in S3 correspond uniquely to the separations of the eight heptads into two complementary sets of 4…."
— J.S. Frame, 1955 review of a 1954 paper by W.L. Edge,
"The Geometry of the Linear Fractional Group LF(4,2)"
Thanks for the Ramsay link are due to Stanley Fish
(last evening's online New York Times ).
For further details, see The Galois Tesseract.
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Friday, January 20, 2006
Friday January 20, 2006
Fourstone Parable
"Wherefore let it hardly… be… thought that the prisoner… was at his best a onestone parable…
for… pathetically few… cared… to doubt… the canonicity of his existence as a tesseract."
— Finnegans Wake, page 100, abridged
"… we have forgotten that we were angels and painted ourselves into a corner
of resource extraction and commodification of ourselves."
— A discussion, in a draft of a paper (rtf) attributed to Josh Schultz,
of the poem "Diamond" by Attila Jozsef
Commodification of
the name Cullinane:
See the logos at
cullinane.com,
a design firm with
the motto
To adapt a phrase from
Finnegans Wake, the
"fourstone parable" below
is an attempt to
decommodify my name.
Fourstone Parable:
(See also yesterday's "Logos."
The "communicate" logo is taken from
an online library at Calvin College;
the "connect" logo is a commonly
available picture of a tesseract
(Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, p. 123),
and the other two logos
are more or less original.)
For a more elegant
four-diamond figure, see
Jung and the Imago Dei.
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