From The Man Who Knew Infinity to The Man Who Knew Zero.
Related mathematics: The Diamond Theorem Correlation, which
results from interchanging infinity and zero in the figure below.
"Read something that means something."
— New Yorker ad
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Click image for
related posts.
Background — Relativity Problem in Log24.
A perhaps more subtle vibe —
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Wikipedia on Erewhon — The novel is one of the first to explore ideas of artificial intelligence, as influenced by Darwin's recently published On the Origin of Species (1859) and the machines developed out of the Industrial Revolution (late 18th to early 19th centuries). Specifically, it concerns itself, in the three-chapter "Book of the Machines", with the potentially dangerous ideas of machine consciousness and self-replicating machines. |
Friday, July 11, 2014
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* Author of Jewel Box: Stories ( Erewhon Books, Oct. 24, 2023).
For the image at upper left below, see
https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-alan-rickman.
On the Rickman domain . . .
See as well "Stella Maris" in this journal.
" In 2017, Milioti appeared in the fourth season of
the sci-fi anthology show Black Mirror in the episode
"USS Callister" as Nanette Cole, a newly employed
game developer whose digital recreation becomes
trapped in a virtual simulator game.[16] "
16. Strause, Jackie (December 30, 2017).
"'Black Mirror': Cristin Milioti on Battling a "Misogynistic Bully"
in Empowering Space Epic". The Hollywood Reporter.
Retrieved June 22, 2021.
Bridge
Dam
April 11, 2020, was the dies natalis ,
in the Catholic sense,
of John Horton Conway.
Whatever.
See as well . . .
April 11, 2020, was the dies natalis ,
in the Catholic sense,
of John Horton Conway.
“On their way to obscurity, the Simulmatics people
played minor parts in major events, appearing Zelig-like
at crucial moments of 1960s history.”
— James Gleick reviewing a new book by Jill Lepore
From the subtitles of the recent Kristen Stewart film “Underwater” —
427
00:30:26,144 –> 00:30:27,476
He’d always say
he had a new joke,
428
00:30:27,478 –> 00:30:29,445
and then he’d tell
the same stupid joke.
429
00:30:29,447 –> 00:30:32,785
I was… laughing at that joke.
430
00:30:34,053 –> 00:30:35,685
Yeah, what was it?
431
00:30:35,687 –> 00:30:38,654
What did the fish say when
it bumped into the brick wall?
April 11 was the dies natalis , in the Catholic sense, of John Horton Conway.
Related material: Other posts containing the phrase “brick wall.”
“A love story of epic, epic, epic proportion” — Kristen Stewart
See also the following letter to Knuth on four-color enthusiast
Spencer-Brown, as well as Tim Robinson on the same subject
in his book My Time in Space .
“All the schools of philosophy, from ancient Greece to the Enlightenment
encyclopedists, have dreamt of one day arriving at total and definitive
knowledge, a knowledge that encompasses the world. Indeed, the dream
lives on in the minds of some scientists today.”
— “Does Basic Research Have Meaning?” by Laurent Lafforgue —
“La recherche fondamentale a-t-elle un sens?
Quelques remarques d’un mathématicien catholique,”
Conférence donnée à l’Université de Notre-Dame,
aux États-Unis, le 20 mai 2011. Voici la version anglaise
de cette conférence (traduite par Hélène Wilkinson)
Et voici Larkin in Devs —
See too “musical brocade” in this journal.
Suggested by the previous post: "Garland is an architect of complicated stories and actual spaces."
— Adam Rogers, 7 AM March 4th, 2020,
https://www.wired.com/story/
inside-devs-dreamy-silicon-valley-quantum-thriller/.
See also The Reality Blocks.
Friday, July 11, 2014Spiegel-Spiel des GeviertsFiled under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 12:00 PM See Cube Symbology.
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Into the Sunset
I just learned of Johnny’s Cash’s death. On Google News, the headline was Johnny Cash rides into sunset. The source was the Bangkok Post.
“Don’t you know that
when you play at this level
there’s no ordinary venue.”
— One Night in Bangkok (midi)
No Ordinary Venue
“They are the horses of a dream.
They are not what they seem.”
— The Hex Witch of Seldom, page 16
A Singer
7-Cycle
The Magnificent Seven:
CLICK HERE for
“the adventures of filming this epic
on location in Cuernavaca, Mexico.”
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“He is the outlaw the people love, — The Hex Witch of Seldom, |
“Words are events.”
— Walter J. Ong, Society of Jesus
“…search for thirty-three and three…”
— The Black Queen in The Eight
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