* See Stephanies in this journal.
See also Best Picture and, more generally, The Accountant.
Friday, November 29, 2019
Tech Drama for Stephanie*
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Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Benchmark
"He stopped at a bench where people could catch buses
from Somewhere to Elsewhere." — John Crowley, 1981
Hat tip to Stephanie Dick, now at Simon Fraser U.
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Sunday, February 13, 2022
For a Time
This journal on the above date —
The New York Times yesterday reported that the above dancer,
no longer very young, died on February 3, 2022.
Some Log24 flashback images reposted on that date —
See as well two Dec. 22, 2002, posts
now tagged Trifecta —
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Thursday, May 6, 2021
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Upcoming Lecture
From thinking-machines.online/ —
“Online lecture series on artificial intelligence, summer 2021. . . .
The series will be jointly hosted by
the Research Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Deutsches Museum,
as part of their traditional »Montagskolloquium«,
the STS group at the European New School of Digital Studies, EUV,
Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), TUM, and
the Philosophy of Computing group, ICFO, Warsaw University of Technology.”
From thinking-machines.online/dick/ —
“… it is urgent to unpack what is at stake….”
See as well the phrase “possible, necessary, and urgent”
in the April 10 post Bond.
And then there is Foreigner . . . .
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(For the “possible, necessary” part, see Modal Nietzsche.)
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Thursday, September 17, 2020
At the Intersection…
Or: Personal Shopping for T. S. Eliot
Fact check:
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Saturday, May 30, 2020
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Something to Look At
Stephen Ornes in Quanta Magazine today —
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
Symbolic Mathematics Finally Yields to Neural Networks
“Another possible direction for the neural net to explore
is the development of automated theorem generators.
Mathematicians are increasingly investigating ways to
use AI to generate new theorems and proofs, though
‘the state of the art has not made a lot of progress,’
Lample said. ‘It’s something we’re looking at.’ “
As is Stephanie Dick.
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Monday, January 13, 2020
D8ing Continues
For the Church of Synchronology —
See as well this journal on the above lecture date: April 4, 2018,
in other posts now also tagged D8.
Update of 11:22 PM ET Jan. 13, 2020 —
Note the Christmas Eve date, and compare and contrast with the previous post.
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Sunday, November 17, 2019
Deep Beauty
From a Log24 search for Deep Beauty —
From a related search —
For the Church of Synchronology —
An image from this journal on the above Dick date, Feb. 9, 2011 —
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Monday, October 14, 2019
Friday, October 11, 2019
Dick Date (YouTube, August 7, 2013)
Down the Rabbit Hole with Stephen King —
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017
The Diamond Theorem in Vancouver
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Saturday, September 27, 2014
Sweet Sixteen
Google celebrates its 16th birthday today.
Here are some family values found with its help.
The father-in-law of the late Thomas A. Tombrello
(previous post) was sociologist Robert K. Merton.
See a tribute to Merton by his daughter Stephanie,
Tombrello's widow. See also a Log24 post mentioning
Merton from Oct. 19, 2005. That post leads to a
post from the date of Merton's death, Feb. 23, 2003.
From that 2003 post:
“Her wall is filled with pictures,
She gets ‘em one by one.”
— “Sweet Little Sixteen,” by Chuck Berry
(Chess Records, January 1958)
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Diabolically Complex Riddle
Steve Chawkins in the Los Angeles Times
Friday, September 26, 2014, 12:09 PM LA time —
"Tom Tombrello, a Caltech physics professor for more than
50 years and an inspiration for freshmen who had to grapple
with diabolically complex riddles to enter his legendary class
on scientific thinking [Physics 11], has died. He was 78.
Tombrello collapsed Tuesday [Sept. 23, 2014] on a bus
between terminals at London's Heathrow airport, his wife,
Stephanie, said. The cause of his death has not yet been determined….
… Tombrello accepted only a handful of students for each year's
session of Physics 11."
How many students is a handful?
Related material from this journal on the day of the professor's death:
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Class of 64
A NY Times researcher from this morning’s previous post
tweeted last fall about art forgery and China.
Related material — Art Cube.
Illustration from December 25, 2013.
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Museum Quality
For Marissa, continued from Jan. 13—
"Killer App" —
By David Barboza in today's print NY Times.
Stephanie Yifan Yang contributed research.
A version of this article appears in print on January 21, 2014,
on page B1 of the New York edition with the headline:
A Popular Chinese Social Networking App Blazes Its Own Path.
Another path —
See also Chinese Oracle.
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Friday, December 7, 2012
The Embedding
( Continued from December 6th — and from Duelle here and in Pynchon )
Part I
The Galois Embedding
Part II
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Deep Craft
Stephanie Hlywak on author Mary Gaitskill (March 22, 2010)—
"In her most recent collection of short stories, Don’t Cry ,
now out in paperback, memory converges with present,
fantasy collides with reality, and sparse prose reveals deep craft."
Mary Gaitskill
See also Gaitskill in the Log24 post Plain Hunt Maximus,
Gaitskill on The Hunchback of Notre-Dame , and yesterday's
New York Times on the bells of Notre-Dame.
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Wednesday February 18, 2009
Raiders of
the Lost Well
| “The challenge is to keep high standards of scholarship while maintaining showmanship as well.” |
— Olga Raggio, a graduate of the Vatican library school and the University of Rome who, at one point in her almost 60 years with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, organized “The Vatican Collections,” a blockbuster show. Dr. Raggio died on January 24.
The next day, “The Last Templar,” starring Mira Sorvino, debuted on NBC.
“The story, involving the Knights Templar, the Vatican, sunken treasure, the fate of Christianity and a decoding device that looks as if it came out of a really big box of medieval Cracker Jack, is the latest attempt to combine Indiana Jones derring-do with ‘Da Vinci Code’ mysticism.”
Sorvino in “The Last Templar”
at the Church of the Lost Well:
at the Church of the Lost Well:
“One highlight of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s first overseas trip will be a stop in China. Her main mission in Beijing will be to ensure that US-China relations under the new Obama administration get off to a positive start.”
— Stephanie Ho, Voice of America Beijing bureau chief, today
Symbol of The Positive,
from this journal
on Valentine’s Day:
“Stephanie started at the Voice of America as an intern in 1991. She left briefly to attend film school in London in 2000. Although she didn’t finish, she has always wanted to be a film school dropout, so now she’s living one of her dreams.
Stephanie was born in Ohio and grew up in California. She has a bachelor’s degree in Asian studies with an emphasis on Chinese history and economics, from the University of California at Berkeley.”
“She is fluent in
Mandrin Chinese.”
—VOA
As is Mira Sorvino.
Those who, like Clinton, Raggio, and
Sorvino’s fictional archaeologist in
“The Last Templar,” prefer Judeo-
Christian myths to Asian myths,
may convert the above Chinese
“well” symbol to a cross
(or a thick “+” sign)
by filling in five of
the nine spaces outlined
by the well symbol.
In so doing, they of course
run the risk, so dramatically
portrayed by Angelina Jolie
as Lara Croft, of opening
Pandora’s Box.
(See Rosalind Krauss, Professor
of Art and Theory at Columbia,
for scholarly details.)
Krauss
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Friday, October 27, 2006
Friday October 27, 2006
Excerpt from Harvard Magazine:
“The people who intermediate between lunatics and the world used to be called alienists; the go-betweens for mathematicians are called teachers. Many a student may rightly have wondered if the terms shouldn’t be reversed.”
— Review of The Magic of Numbers, a book by Benedict H. Gross, Leverett Professor of Mathematics and Dean of Harvard College
For the full review, see
On Mathematical Imagination–
Harvard Magazine
(January-February 2004):
… part of a New Instauration
that will bring mathematics, at last, …
Wednesday,
http://www.harvardmagazine.com/
on-line/010442.html
Related material:
the previous entry,
Hall of Shem,
and the link, in the
Ash Wednesday, 2006,
entry, Deaconess,
to The House of God,
a novel by
Samuel Shem.
Shem is the pen-name
of Stephen J. Bergman,
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry
at Harvard Medical School.
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