Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Balera
From Dancing in the Moonlight (Log24, July 27) —
For those who prefer really tiny dancers (Humbert Humbert, etc.) —
The balero in an Oct. 3 post suggests a search for the feminine form
of that term. The result:
Click to enlarge the balera image.
Related viewing — The portrayal of a very young dancer in
the 2015 film "A Beautiful Now." I find the film's older version
of that dancer, played by Abigail Spencer, of greater interest.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Dancing in the Moonlight
Instagram screenshot with added note.
Easy E for an Accountant:
Not So Easy: E-Operators
"A great many other properties of E-operators
have been found, which I have not space
to examine in detail."
— Sir Arthur Eddington, New Pathways in Science ,
Cambridge University Press, 1935, page 271.
(This book also presents Eddington's unfortunate
speculations on the fine-structure constant.)
Update of 4:04 AM ET:
Here is the not-so-tiny-dancer in
the above Instagram screenshot.
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Sunday, September 27, 2020
Mosaic
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020
On the Road
From Mosaic Logic, a post of September 3, 2017 —
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”
—Many Dimensions (1931), by Charles Williams
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Sunday, November 17, 2019
E-Elements Revisited
The German mathematician Wolf Barth in the above post is not the
same person as the Swiss artist Wolf Barth in today's previous post.
An untitled, undated, picture by the latter —
Compare and contrast with an "elements" picture of my own —
— and with . . .
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”
—Many Dimensions (1931), by Charles Williams
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Sunday, September 3, 2017
Mosaic Logic
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”
—Many Dimensions (1931), by Charles Williams
While you're waiting …
Click the above illustration for
some remarks on mosaics.
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Sunday, August 13, 2017
Logos
In memoriam —
Zadeh is known for the unfortunate phrase "fuzzy logic."
Not-so-fuzzy related material —
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”
—Many Dimensions (1931), by Charles Williams
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Monday, June 12, 2017
Bubble
The "bubble" passage in the previous post suggests a review of
a post from December 21, 2006, with the following images —
Update of 11:01 PM ET the same day, June 12, 2017 —
Related material for the Church of Synchronology —
From a tech-article series that began on Halloween 2006 and
ended on the date of the above Geometry's Tombstones post —
Compare and contrast (from a post of Feb. 27, 2017) —
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”
—Many Dimensions (1931), by Charles Williams
See also "The Geometry of Logic:
Finite Geometry and the 16 Boolean Connectives"
by Steven H. Cullinane in 2007.
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Monday, February 27, 2017
Logic for Jews
Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker today reacts to the startling
outcomes of three recent contests: the presidential election,
the Super Bowl, and the Oscar for Best Picture —
"The implicit dread logic is plain."
Related material —
Transformers in this journal and …
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”
—Many Dimensions (1931), by Charles Williams
See also …
The above figure is from Ian Stewart's 1996 revision of a 1941 classic,
What Is Mathematics? , by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins.
One wonders how the confused slave boy of Plato's Meno would react
to Stewart's remark that
"The number of copies required to double an
object's size depends on its dimension."
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Saturday, January 28, 2017
Cranking It Up
From "Core," a post of St. Lucia's Day, Dec. 13, 2016 —
In related news yesterday —
California yoga mogul’s mysterious death:
Trevor Tice’s drunken last hours detailed
"Police found Tice dead on the floor in his home office,
blood puddled around his head. They also found blood
on walls, furniture, on a sofa and on sheets in a nearby
bedroom, where there was a large bottle of Grey Goose
vodka under several blood-stained pillows on the floor."
See as well an image from "The Stone," a post of March 18, 2016 —
Some backstory —
“Lord Arglay had a suspicion that the Stone would be
purely logical. Yes, he thought, but what, in that sense,
were the rules of its pure logic?”
—Many Dimensions (1931), by Charles Williams
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