Art for today — All Souls' Day, also known as the Day of the Dead —
Saturday, November 2, 2024
Saturday, October 19, 2024
“Must be the season . . . .” — Song lyric
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Sunday, October 13, 2024
Sunday, September 29, 2024
Annals of Snark: The Matchwood Patch
From The New York Times on Michaelmas 2024 —
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A Requiem for Lana: “Knock, Knock, Knockin'”
Mathematician-programmer Lana Creal reportedly died on Sept. 14.
An image reposted in this journal on that date —
Notes on some other women in mathematics —
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Monday, September 23, 2024
Point Alpha — “What’s Your Rush, Miss Minutes?”
"Sometimes a wind comes before the rain
and sends birds sailing past the window,
spirit birds that ride the night,
stranger than dreams."
— The end of DeLillo's Point Omega
Meanwhile on that YouTube date . . .
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Monday, September 16, 2024
Publication Date
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The Strangelove Doctrine
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Sunday, September 15, 2024
Welcome!
"The state of Florida will be
conducting its own investigation . . . ."
As will Miss Minutes.
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Singing the Academic Blues
Dædalus, the Journal
of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Related readings —
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Saturday, September 14, 2024
Notes on a Friday the 13th Death
A passage accessed via the new URL Starbrick.art* —
Thursday, February 25, 2021
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A related cultural note suggested by the New York Times obituary today
of fashion designer Mary McFadden, who reportedly died yesterday
(a Friday the Thirteenth) and is described by the Times as a late-life
partner of "eightfold-way" physicist Murray Gell-Mann —
* A reference to the 2-column 4-row matrix (a "brick") that underlies
the patterns in the Miracle Octad Generator of R. T. Curtis. The only
connection of this eight-part matrix to Gell-Mann's "Eightfold Way"
that I know of is simply the number 8 itself.
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Seven Years of Group Actions (and Non-Actions)
The previous post's Wired reference to a seven-year AI project
suggests a review of this journal seven years ago . . .
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Incarnating Miss Minutes
From "Inside Google's 7-Year Mission
to Give AI a Robot Body" —
Or not.
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Theological Choreography: Cloud Nine from Xanadu
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“Defying the Odds” — Point Omega Continues.
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