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Monday, October 3, 2022

Old Code

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:23 pm

In memory of a mathematics professor who
reportedly died on May 21, 2022 —

"… mouses over to a file …."  Or a folder.

The Abstract and the Concrete

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:42 am

Counting symmetries with the orbit-stabilizer theorem

The above art by Steven H. Cullinane is not unrelated to
art by Josefine Lyche. Her work includes sculpted replicas
of the above abstract  Platonic solids, as well as replicas of
my own work related to properties of the 4×6 rectangle above.
Symmetries of both the solids and the rectangle may be
viewed as permutations of  parts — In the Platonic solids,
the parts are permuted by continuous  rotations of space itself.
In the rectangle, the parts are permuted by non-continuous 
transformations, as in the I Ching . . . i.e., by concrete  illustrations
of change.

Sunday, October 2, 2022

Epistemology in Norway

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:53 pm

Saturday, October 1, 2022

Mexican Beach Bum Glam

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:20 am

Also on the above Berlin date —

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Bullshit Studies

Filed under: General — Tags:  
— m759 @ 3:12 PM 

The essay excerpted in last night's post on structuralism
is of value as part of a sustained attack by the late
Robert de Marrais on the damned nonsense of the late
French literary theorist Jacques Derrida—

Catastrophes, Kaleidoscopes, String Quartets:
Deploying the Glass Bead Game

Part I:  Ministrations Concerning Silliness, or:
Is “Interdisciplinary Thought” an Oxymoron?

Part II:  Canonical Collage-oscopes, or:
Claude in Jacques’ Trap?  Not What It Sounds Like!

Part III:  Grooving on the Sly with Klein Groups

Part IV:  Claude’s Kaleidoscope . . . and Carl’s

Part V:  Spelling the Tree, from Aleph to Tav
(While  Not Forgetting to Shin)

The response of de Marrais to Derrida's oeuvre  nicely
exemplifies the maxim of Norman Mailer that

"At times, bullshit can only be countered
with superior bullshit."

Imagine.

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:09 am

"… a hyper-intellectual fable that riddles you into a house
of mirrors from which you wonder if you’ll ever emerge.
(Imagine packaging the universe’s most existential questions
as Abbott and Costello’s 'Who’s on First?' routine.)"

Book review by Michael Callahan in The New York Times
on September 19, 2022.

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