Friday, May 1, 2026
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Welcome to Prettyman Law*
"There is no writing on glass."
— Paraphrase of Mark Zuckerberg at 2017 Harvard Commencement
* Cf. this journal on August 4, 2021.
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Friday, May 26, 2023
Saddle Design
For the title, see Saddle in this journal.
Friday, October 21, 2022
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
“Social Networks” . . .
“They’re saying it’s ‘Hunger Games’ meets ‘Lord of the Flies.’"
— https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/technology/
meta-layoffs-employees-management.html .
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Friday, April 7, 2023
Nightmare Gresham
… And then there is Gresham College —
Film script adapted from the Gresham novel Nightmare Alley —
Update of 4:04 PM ET —
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Monday, December 12, 2022
Trying Yet Another Social Network
An existential question . . .
If at first you don't succeed . . .
The word "counterarts" in the Medium URL above suggests
a review of Log24 on Defense Against the Dark Arts.
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Saturday, November 26, 2022
Metaphorical Possibilities
"I’m kind of surprised there isn’t a Wisława Szymborska poem or
Tom Stoppard play that explores the metaphorical possibilities
in the Borromean rings."
— Evelyn Lamb in Scientific American , September 30, 2016.
Other mathematical structures also have metaphorical possibilities.
Perhaps not encantado enough.
See Szymborska in this journal in the context of St. Bridget's Day.
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Sunday, October 23, 2022
Saddle Design: The Little Big Horn
Related material —
CLIPPED FROM The Californian , Salinas, California,
28 July 2001, Saturday • Page 25 —
The above 2001 article on Cruz Saddlery in Salinas is about the family
of "Sacheen Littlefeather," whose real name was reportedly Maria Louise Cruz.
For more about Maria/Sacheen, see yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle :
"Sacheen Littlefeather was a Native American icon.
Her sisters say she was an ethnic fraud."
From that article —
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Friday, October 21, 2022
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Meta Verse
"Meta isn't such a new thing …
Meta started long ago."
— Log24 on All Souls' Day (Nov. 2), 2021
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Anthony Garreffa at tweaktown.com — PUBLISHED SAT, DEC 11 2021 10:23 PM CST When asked about the metaverse by The Verge in their interview [Dec. 9] with The Matrix Resurrections stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, Keanu said: "can we just not have metaverse be invented by Facebook". He was asked by The Verge "you're not a fan?" to which Keanu replied: "No, but just the concept of metaverse is like way older than that. It's like a way older, and so for that moment to get to… I'm just like, 'Come on, man'". Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/83337/keanu-reeves-wants-you-to-know-facebook-didnt-invent-the-metaverse/index.html |
See also Log24 posts tagged Date Time (Nov. 4, 2021).
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Monday, February 25, 2019
The Sartwell Illusion
See Sartwell in this journal and . . .
"Read something that means something." — New Yorker motto.
From a search for Alperin in this journal —
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Saturday, June 10, 2017
Strange
Mark Zuckerberg in a commencement speech
at Harvard on May 25 —
"Movies and pop culture get this all wrong.
The idea of a single eureka moment
is a dangerous lie. It makes us feel inadequate
since we haven’t had ours. It prevents people
with seeds of good ideas from getting started.
Oh, you know what else movies get wrong about
innovation? No one writes math formulas on glass.
That’s not a thing."
THE ACCOUNTANT (2016) 8 p.m. on HBO.
Ben Affleck stars as Christian Wolff, an enigmatic mathematics savant
with special-ops-caliber skills who moonlights as a numbers cruncher ….
— The New York Times today, What's on TV Saturday
In other news today —
“You can’t play Batman in a serious, square-jawed, straight-ahead way
without giving the audience the sense that there’s something behind
that mask waiting to get out, that he’s a little crazed, he’s strange.”
— The late Adam West, according to The Hollywood Reporter
Update of 2:42 PM ET Saturday —
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Mystery Box
In honor of the tenth anniversary of Facebook
Viewed in the Chrome browser, a Facebook post from
January 29, 2014, displays an artist's Mystery Box*…
In the Internet Explorer browser, the mystery is solved:
Further details —
Related material — Lyche + Geometry in this journal.
See also the cat and triangle pictured by David Justice yesterday—
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* A phrase of filmmaker J.J. Abrams. Click the link
for further details. See also a mystery box
in The New York Times on June 2, 2011.
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Friday, October 1, 2010
Volcano Dawn
Estas son las mañanitas
Que cantaba el rey David
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning,
fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Good question.
From The Hunchback of Notre Dame :
Un cofre de gran riqueza
Hallaron dentro un pilar,
Dentro del, nuevas banderas
Con figuras de espantar.
A coffer of great richness
In a pillar’s heart they found,
Within it lay new banners,
With figures to astound.
Those who prefer more commercial banners may consult this morning's New York Times.
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Monday, September 27, 2010
The Social Network…
… In the Age of Citation
1. INTRODUCTION TO THE PROBLEM
Social network analysis is focused on the patterning of the social
relationships that link social actors. Typically, network data take the
form of a square-actor by actor-binary adjacency matrix, where
each row and each column in the matrix represents a social actor. A
cell entry is 1 if and only if a pair of actors is linked by some social
relationship of interest (Freeman 1989).
— "Using Galois Lattices to Represent Network Data,"
by Linton C. Freeman and Douglas R. White,
Sociological Methodology, Vol. 23, pp. 127–146 (1993)
From this paper's CiteSeer page—
Citations
| 766 | Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications – WASSERMAN, FAUST – 1994 |
| 100 | The act of creation – Koestler – 1964 |
| 75 | Visual Thinking – Arnheim – 1969 |
Visual Image of the Problem—
From a Google search today:
Related material—
"It is better to light one candle…"
"… the early favorite for best picture at the Oscars" — Roger Moore
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