The five stages of grief meet
the four stages of design:
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Thursday, August 14, 2014
MIT Mystery
Robin Williams and the Stages of Grief
A weblog post from Jan. 25, 2014 (click image to enlarge)—
Clues for a Mystery (Click links for more details)—
Clue 1: A June 11,* 2014, math death.
Clue 2: The answer is a surname.
Midrash for Will Hunting:
See Nanavira Thera at Wikipedia and space notes from September 2012.
* According to a (perhaps inaccurate) math department.
June 10, according to other sources cited by the department.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021
For Julie Heng, Harvard Crimson writer
Heng today states clearly the obvious problem with peer review —
“… because reviewers must have a certain level of authority
in the subject, their work is often in direct competition with
what’s presented in these potential publications.”
Thursday, August 21, 2014
NoxFiled under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 1:00 AM ( A sequel to Lux ) “By groping toward the light we are made to realize — Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy ,
Robin Williams and the Stages of Math i) shock & denial A related description of the process — “You know how sometimes someone tells you a theorem, — Tom Leinster yesterday at The n-Category Café |
“Why did no one tell me this before?” See The Crimson .
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Thursday, November 12, 2020
Storylines
Related material for comedians —
Thursday, August 21, 2014
NoxFiled under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 1:00 AM ( A sequel to Lux ) “By groping toward the light we are made to realize — Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy ,
Robin Williams and the Stages of Math i) shock & denial A related description of the process — “You know how sometimes someone tells you a theorem, — Tom Leinster yesterday at The n-Category Café |
See as well . . .
Damonizing Your Opponent
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Sunday, April 12, 2020
Blackboard Jungle Continues.
From a post this morning by Peter J. Cameron
in memory of John Horton Conway —
| ” This happened at a conference somewhere in North America. I was chairing the session at which he was to speak. When I got up to introduce him, his title had not yet been announced, and the stage had a blackboard on an easel. I said something like ‘The next speaker is John Conway, and no doubt he is going to tell us what he will talk about.’ John came onto the stage, went over to the easel, picked up the blackboard, and turned it over. On the other side were revealed five titles of talks. He said, ‘I am going to give one of these talks. I will count down to zero; you are to shout as loudly as you can the number of the talk you want to hear, and the chairman will judge which number is most popular.’ “ |
From Log24 on August 21, 2014 —
Thursday, August 21, 2014
NoxFiled under: Uncategorized — m759 @ 1:00 AM ( A sequel to Lux ) “By groping toward the light we are made to realize — Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy ,
Robin Williams and the Stages of Math i) shock & denial A related description of the process — “You know how sometimes someone tells you a theorem, — Tom Leinster yesterday at The n-Category Café |
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Friday, June 8, 2018
For Anthony Bourdain
Flashback —
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Thursday, August 21, 2014
Nox
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
The Seventh Stage
Robin Williams and the Stages of Math
i) shock & denial
ii) anger
iii) bargaining
iv) depression
v) acceptance
And then…
vi) checking
vii) Joan Rivers
See also
- today’s previous post, Claves Regni Caelorum ,
- Robin Williams in “The Final Cut,” and
- a book with a related title (illustrated below).
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Saturday, September 6, 2014
Infinite Jest
“1 + 2 + 3 + … = –1/12.”
Robin Williams and the Stages of Math
i) shock & denial
ii) anger
iii) bargaining
iv) depression
v) acceptance
And then…
vi) checking
vii) Joan Rivers:
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Thursday, August 21, 2014
Nox
( A sequel to Lux )
“By groping toward the light we are made to realize
how deep the darkness is around us.”
— Arthur Koestler, The Call Girls: A Tragi-Comedy ,
Random House, 1973, page 118
Robin Williams and the Stages of Math
i) shock & denial
ii) anger
iii) bargaining
iv) depression
v) acceptance
A related description of the process —
“You know how sometimes someone tells you a theorem,
and it’s obviously false, and you reach for one of the many
easy counterexamples only to realize that it’s not a
counterexample after all, then you reach for another one
and another one and find that they fail too, and you begin
to concede the possibility that the theorem might not
actually be false after all, and you feel your world start to
shift on its axis, and you think to yourself: ‘Why did no one
tell me this before?’ “
— Tom Leinster yesterday at The n-Category Café
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