Hexagram 39:
Obstruction
Obstruction. The southwest furthers.
(See Zenna Henderson.)
The northeast does not further.
(See Daniel Dennett.)
Friday, April 19, 2024
Daniel Dennett Dies
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Something Old . . .
See Zihuatanejo in this journal.
Sombrero tip to a Venice Beach Space Barn* reporter for . . .
Space meditation at Zihuatanejo.
* Adapted song lyric: "Whose barn, what barn, her barn . . . ."
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… Something New … Something Borrowed …
… Something Blue
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Friday, April 12, 2024
The Gambit Plan
Citation — Lattanzio, Ryan (December 7, 2020). "After 'Queen's Gambit,'
Anya Taylor-Joy and Scott Frank Reuniting for Nabokov Adaptation".
IndieWire. — Wikipedia
Thanks for the warning.
See as well Scott Frank on chessboard space.
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Carmel Review
"Clint Eastwood, 93, appears frail but spirited
as he is seen in rare public appearance at
primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall event in Carmel"
— By Karen Ruiz For Dailymail.com
Published: 10:39 am EDT, 12 April 2024
The event, on Sunday, March 24, 2024, suggests a review —
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Friday, January 26, 2024
Barbenheimer: The Sanskrit Part
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Monday, November 29, 2021
Apophenia for Woit
Peter Woit is quoted in the previous post as saying that
"Deluding oneself by seeing deep connections
in unrelated events is a common human problem."
Namely . . .
The term occurred in a recent miniseries, "The Queen's Gambit,"
in dialogue by screenwriter Scott Frank. "Apophenia" is not in the
book of the same title, by the much better writer Walter Tevis.
The original version of the fictional LIFE Magazine interview —
The version by Scott Frank —
As for the phrase "an entire world of just 64 squares," also not in the book,
some mathematicians may recall the definition of impolite numbers .
The reader may supply his or her own impolite commentary.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Women in Mathematics
This book was not in the original novel, and its title is plagiarized.
Blame screenwriter Scott Frank, not Gambit author Walter Tevis.
Related material:
The previous post, and Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy
in The Witch: A New England Folktale (2015).
See as well, from the late-October Strogatz date above —
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Friday, September 14, 2018
Denkraum
Underlying the I Ching structure is the finite affine space
of six dimensions over the Galois field with two elements.
In this field, "1 + 1 = 0," as noted here Wednesday.
See also other posts now tagged Interstice.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Board
In several posts now tagged Chessboard,
an I Ching chessboard
image in which adjacent squares
have the Karnaugh property—
— has been replaced by a picture of
the original 1989 version in which
the Karnaugh property applies only to cells
that are adjacent in a cubic, not square,
arrangement—
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Wednesday May 6, 2009
Joke
“My pursuits are a joke
in that the universe is a joke.
One has to reflect
the universe faithfully.”
— John Frederick Michell
Feb. 9, 1933 –
April 24, 2009
“I laugh because I dare not cry.
This is a crazy world and
the only way to enjoy it
is to treat it as a joke.”
This is a crazy world and
the only way to enjoy it
is to treat it as a joke.”
— Robert A. Heinlein,
The Number of the Beast
For Marisa Tomei
(born Dec. 4, 1964) —
on the day that
Bob Seger turns 64 —
A Joke:
Points All Her Own
Points All Her Own,
Part I:
(For the backstory, see
the Log24 entries and links
on Marisa Tomei’s birthday
last year.)
Points All Her Own,
Part II:
(For the backstory, see
Galois Geometry:
The Simplest Examples.)
Points All Her Own,
Part III:
(For the backstory, see
Geometry of the I Ching
and the history of
Chinese philosophy.)
In simpler terms:
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