Fields of Force

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Lockscreen: A Beach for KenKen

Filed under: General — Tags: Barbenheimer, Fields of Force — m759 @ 11:21 pm

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“Proof of Concept” at The New York Times

Filed under: General — Tags: Aitchison, Bullshit Studies, Fields of Force — m759 @ 6:11 pm

About the author of the above —

A related questionable "proof of concept" :

Aitchison at Hiroshima in this journal — a scholar's 2018 investigation
of M₂₄ actions on a cuboctahedon — and . . .

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Chapter 11 Continues: A Larger Box

Filed under: General — Tags: Fields of Force, Iconology 2023, Priority — m759 @ 12:00 pm

"… really we should use larger boxes." — Ursula K. Le Guin

"The Steiner system S (5, 8, 24) is a block design
made up of 24 points and 759 blocks, each of size 8,
with the property that every 5 points lie in exactly one block.
This design is naturally associated with the Golay code, and
its automorphism group is the simple Mathieu group M₂₄;
see [3, Ch. 11].

3. J.H. Conway and N.J.A. Sloane, Sphere Packings,
Lattices and Groups, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1988."

— New Zealand Journal of Mathematics,
Volume 25 (1996), 133-139.
"Markings of the Golay Code," by
Marston Conder and John McKay.
(Received July 1995.)

See also the Harlan Kane Special from Broomsday 2023.
That post relates properties of the 4×4 box (Cullinane, 1979)
to those of the 4×6 box (Conway and Sloane, 1988, without
mention of Cullinane 1979).

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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Games

Filed under: General — Tags: Fields, Fields of Force, Recreational Bullshit — m759 @ 7:28 am

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Related reading — George Steiner's Fields of Force , on chess in Iceland, and . . .

The New Yorker , article by Sam Knight dated March 28, 2022 —

They went to Björk’s house. She cooked salmon.
She had seen “The Witch” and introduced Eggers
to Sjón, who had written a novel about seventeenth-
century witchcraft in Iceland. When he got home,
Eggers read Sjón’s books. “I was, like, this guy’s
a fucking magician,” Eggers said. “He sees all time,
in time, out of time.”

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