See the post "The Ghent Links" from the day a former Vanity Fair
art director turned 81.
Peacock fans may prefer a back-door view from Las Mañanitas .
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Whiteout
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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Art for Nihilists
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"I am serious about my study. I am a distinguished professor of mathematics at Brown University, though I have not for decades concerned myself with arithmetic, calculus, matrices, theorems, Hausdorff spaces, finite lattice representations, or anything else that involves values or numbers or representations of values or numbers or any such somethings, whether they have substance or not. I have spent my career in my little office on George Street in Providence contemplating and searching for nothing. I have not found it."
Everett, Percival. Dr. No: A Novel (p. 6). |
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Tuesday, March 5, 2024
“If It’s Tuesday…”
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Monday, February 5, 2024
Quantum Kernel Incarnate
The "quantum kernel" of Koen Thas is a version of the incidence
structure — the Cremona-Richmond configuration — discussed
in the previous post, Doily vs. Inscape .
That post's inscape is, as noted there, an incarnation of the
abstract incidence structure. More generally, see incarnation
in this journal . . . In particular, from Michaelmas last year,
Annals of Mathematical Theology.
A somewhat more sophisticated "incarnation" example
related to the "inscape" concept —
"The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation."
— T. S. Eliot in Four Quartets
See also Numberland in this journal.
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Sunday, February 4, 2024
Doily vs. Inscape: Same Abstract Structure, Different Models
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My own term "inscape" names a square incarnation of what is also
known as the "Cremona-Richmond configuration," the "generalized
quadrangle of order (2, 2)," and the "doily." —
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Friday, October 27, 2023
Monday, October 16, 2023
For Harlan Kane — The Heidegger Conundrum
Where's Y?
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Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Void Game
Fans of the phrase "God-shaped hole" may have some opinions
about what should fill the inner 3×3 void of the above 5×5 array.
Update of 3:53 pm ET — The White Paper —
The Source —
The Atlantic . . . Technology:
Washington and Beijing have been locked in a conflict
over AI development. Now a new battle line is being drawn.
By Karen Hao. October 11, 2023, 9:13 AM ET
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023
“If It’s Tuesday…” Continues.
A nihilist altarpiece, from other posts tagged "Ghent Links" —
Some will prefer the "Better to light one candle" philosophy and . . .
Candle from Sense8, Season 1, Episode 1: “Limbic Resonance” —
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Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Tuesday… Belgium.
The inscape in the previous post suggests a review of
work by the Belgian mathematician Koen Thas on what
might be called the "quantum tesseract theorem."
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Babes in Tweeland
The New Yorker yesterday on a film director —
"Lest viewers become even briefly comfortable with
the enchantments of his staging and of his actors’
performances, Anderson jolts them alert with
ever more audacious contrivances."
"As you can see, we've had our eye on you
for some time now, Mr. Anderson."
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Tags: Ghent Links — m759 @ 4:07 PM
Related material: "Ducky" died, Circle Zen, Palmervision
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Monday, August 28, 2023
The Missing Links
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“Ach du lieber August” — John O’Hara, Hope of Heaven
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"We stopped at the Trocadero and there was hardly anyone there. We had Lanson 1926. 'Drink up, sweet. You gotta go some. How I love music. Frère Jacques, Cuernavaca, ach du lieber August. All languages. A walking Berlitz. Berlitz sounds like you with that champagne, my sweet, or how you're gonna sound.'" — John O'Hara, Hope of Heaven, Chapter 11, 1938 "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." "Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the
PARIS, — James Joyce, conclusion of Finnegans Wake |
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Sunday, August 27, 2023
Shadow Work* for Alcoholics
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Midnight Wrinkle
See as well the life of a real astrophysicist.
Update of 12:26 PM ET March 15:
Vide other posts now tagged The Rosenhain Symmetry.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Blackboard Jungle Continues.
From the 1955 film "Blackboard Jungle" —
From a trailer for the recent film version of A Wrinkle in Time —
Detail of the phrase "quantum tesseract theorem":
From the 1962 book —
"There's something phoney
in the whole setup, Meg thought.
There is definitely something rotten
in the state of Camazotz."
Related mathematics from Koen Thas that some might call a
"quantum tesseract theorem" —
Some background —
See also posts tagged Dirac and Geometry. For more
background on finite geometry, see a web page
at Thas's institution, Ghent University.
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