Thursday, April 11, 2024
Devs: Hollywood Development Hell
From The Man Who Knew Infinity to The Man Who Knew Zero.
Related mathematics: The Diamond Theorem Correlation, which
results from interchanging infinity and zero in the figure below.
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Background — Relativity Problem in Log24.
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Saturday, September 2, 2023
Combinations
The combination of Shakespeare and Frankenstein
in the previous post suggests a more potent combination —
Hypnotic and Propaganda.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Tuesday May 20, 2008
The China Candidate
In honor of the 100th birthday of actor James Stewart,
Turner Classic Movies is now showing
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
In light of an ABC News story tonight,
Report: U.S. Soldiers Did 'Dirty Work' for Chinese Interrogators,
the following film seems more relevant:
Welcome to the Garden Club, Pilgrim
Related material:
The Dictatorship of Talent, by David Brooks
in The New York Times of December 4, 2007—
"When you talk to Americans, you find that they have all these weird notions about Chinese communism. You try to tell them that China isn’t a communist country anymore. It’s got a different system: meritocratic paternalism. You joke: Imagine the Ivy League taking over the shell of the Communist Party and deciding not to change the name. Imagine the Harvard Alumni Association with an army."
— and Harvard mathematician
See also Sylvia Nasar's 2006 New Yorker article on Yau
and the screenplay of The Manchurian Candidate:
A long pause. Finally, Yen Lo laughs. YEN LO With humor, my dear Zilkov. Always with a little humor.