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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

“Wilde Abyss”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:50 pm

Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Balera

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:45 pm

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.

Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Dancing in the Moonlight

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:00 am


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 EddingtonNew 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.

Sunday, September 27, 2020

Mosaic

Filed under: General — m759 @ 3:45 pm

See also a search in this  journal for instances of the following image —

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

On the Road

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:23 am

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

Sunday, November 17, 2019

E-Elements Revisited

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:22 am

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

Logo for 'Elements of Finite Geometry'

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

Sunday, September 3, 2017

Mosaic Logic

Filed under: General — m759 @ 10:45 am

“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.

Sunday, August 13, 2017

Logos

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 1:00 am

   

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

Monday, June 12, 2017

Bubble

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 1:19 pm

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.

Monday, February 27, 2017

Logic for Jews

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:07 pm

(Continued)

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."

Saturday, January 28, 2017

Cranking It Up

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:17 pm

From "Core," a post of St. Lucia's Day, Dec. 13, 2016 —

'We are rooted in yoga and love the magic that happens when that practice is cranked up to eleven.'

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

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

For Your Consideration

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:22 pm

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