(Continued from May 2, 2023 and December 18, 2022)
Harmonic analysis based on the circle involves the
circular functions. Dyadic harmonic analysis involves …
Summary, as an illustration of a title by George Mackey —
Friday, September 27, 2024
To Phrase a Coin
Whiteboard Jungle: “Harmonic” as Buzzword
From a Sept. 23 New York Times article headlined
"Is Math the Path to Chatbots
That Don’t Make Stuff Up?
Chatbots like ChatGPT get stuff wrong.
But researchers are building new A.I.
systems that can verify their own math
— and maybe more."
The article is about an AI startup named "Harmonic."
From a Times photo illustrating the article —
See also the word "harmonic" in this journal yesterday.
The word "whiteboard" in this journal is also instructive.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Words and Images
From a post on "Matrix Bingo" —
From a Log24 search for "Women's Night" —
The Mackey material, from St. Patrick's Day 2006, suggests a look
at the angels of Noah Jacobs' 1958 classic Naming Day in Eden —
Jacobs on angels —
"Their sensuous functions have been extinguished so that they
have no idea of sensible images, metaphor, tones or gestures.
They have no need in their noumenal sphere of these seductive
and puzzling artifices. Their penchant for unashamed abstraction
is the deepest strain in their make-up."
Compare and contrast —
Quilts (for instance) as "seductive and puzzling artifices"
that embody symmetry.
Quilt geometry as the exploitation of symmetry.