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Thursday, March 27, 2025

Math Noir  Continues . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:54 pm

Friday, March 21, 2025

Axiom Attics … Continues.

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:19 pm
 

Thursday, March 13, 2025

In Memory of Professor James Reason,
Error Analyst:
A Flashback for Doctor Who

Filed under: General — Tags: ,
— m759 @ 11:16 am 

The New York Times  today reports that Doctor Reason
died on Feb. 5 (the date of the Log24 post "Axiom Attics:
Ars Longa
 ").

An illustration from the Axiom Attics post linked to on March 13 —

Clay Risen in The New York Times  yesterday, in reporting the March 13
death of a Mother-Jones-cofounding journalist . . .

"In between editing investigative journalism, he wrote
a science fiction thriller, The Black Hole Affair  (1991)."

The description at Amazon.com of that thriller —

The Black Hole Affair Paperback – January 1, 1991

by Jeffrey Klein (Author)

Zebra Books, 1991. Mass market paperback, stated first Zebra printing, August 1991. (SBN 0-8217-3470-9) Embossed wrappers with foil lettering. Good copy, back wrapper scuffed. thight copy, unread.

It was the orbital weapon powerful enough to destroy entire nations. The Pentagon would kill anyone who tried to expose the lethal secrets of the Black Hole Affair. "Klein knows more about Silicon Valley's Dark Side than anyone!" — Mike Malone, PBS. "'The Black Hole Affair' captures the terror of our times!" — Mike Weiss, Edgar Award Winner. The Black Hole Affair, code name for a super secret Star Wars weapons program powerful enough to destroy America's enemies in minutes and reduce half the earth to a nuclear wasteland. The most closely guarded military program ever funded by the Pentagon's infamous "black budget" — only two men knew its true power and would kill to protect it. The deadliest government conspiracy in U.S. history, it was the story of a lifetime for Silicon Valley's investigative reporter Eli Franklin, that if if he lived long enough to tell it. Fiction.

"Jeffrey, Calvin … Calvin, Jeffrey."

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Types of Ambiguity: “X-Caliber”

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:26 pm

In Memory of Professor James Reason, Error Analyst:
A Flashback for Doctor Who

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:16 am

The New York Times  today reports that Doctor Reason died on Feb. 5
(the date of the Log24 post "Axiom Attics: Ars Longa").

Perhaps he has now escaped the confines of time. From this  journal . . .

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

A Sunday Sermon: Math Noir

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 12:29 pm

From this journal  last Sunday morning . . .

From this journal  this  morning . . .

"In conclusion: what an axiomatic presentation of a piece of mathematics
conceals  is at least as relevant to the understanding of mathematics
as what an axiomatic presentation pretends  to state." — Gian-Carlo Rota

As for noir . . .

Consider how Apple TV recently created "brutal, exaggerated worlds
that originated in actual locations" and also created a villainous
private company named Axiom .

Some relevant history of mathematics . . .

"The bond with reality is cut." — Freudenthal on axiomatics .

The Doctor Who Kool-Aid

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:11 am

On Monday, March 10, 2025, The New York Times 
reported a Sunday, March 9, death  —

Simon Fisher-Becker, Actor in
‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Doctor Who,’
Dies at 63

Rota and the Iceberg

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:51 am

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Axiom Attics: Ars Longa

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , , — m759 @ 8:29 pm

At about 37:28 —

Okay. What's the operating system?

Um

Is there a logo, an extension? Anything?
Go to the top left and open system settings.

( breathes heavily )
Uh, it says AXI .

I know that system, but it's US government only.
The software's designed by Axiorn. ( sighs )
They're a private security firm.

Read more at: https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/
viewtopic.php?f=2457&t=72920
&sid=37ef753cee8a0baf2bab3e2e4f32967c

From this journal on January 10, 2025, a cartoon from
Axiomatics: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism

Okay. What's the operating system? Um… Is there a logo, an extension? Anything? Go to the top left and open system settings. ( breathes heavily ) Uh, it says AXI. I know that system, but it's US government only. The software's designed by Axiorn. ( sighs ) They're a private security firm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more at: https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/viewtopic.php?f=2457&t=72920&sid=37ef753cee8a0baf2bab3e2e4f32967c

Okay. What's the operating system? Um… Is there a logo, an extension? Anything? Go to the top left and open system settings. ( breathes heavily ) Uh, it says AXI. I know that system, but it's US government only. The software's designed by Axiorn. ( sighs ) They're a private security firm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more at: https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/viewtopic.php?f=2457&t=72920&sid=37ef753cee8a0baf2bab3e2e4f32967c

 

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