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Sunday, March 27, 2016

Review

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:00 pm

Huber-Dyson's Dec. 1981 review of Hofstadter's 'Gödel, Escher, Bach'

See also Krapp in this  journal.

Easter Music

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:27 pm

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Savagery 101

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:01 pm
From Bloomberg.com

Beyond the First Slide

“It wasn’t unusual for presenters to fail to make it beyond the first slide before having their carefully prepared presentation ripped to shreds. The process was constructive savagery: It helped make Intel the world’s largest chipmaker, a distinction it still holds, a decade after Grove retired. ‘If you were to pick one person who built Silicon Valley, it was Andy,’ said Marc Andreessen, the entrepreneur and venture capitalist, during a 2015 Churchill Club award presentation. ‘Andy kind of set the model for what a high-quality Silicon Valley company should be.'”

See also Two Views of Finite Space.

In Memoriam

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 3:00 am

Slavik Jablan, a writer on symmetry.

A post from the date of his death —

See as well a post from yesterday and Fearful Princeton.

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