Friday, June 26, 2020
Saturday, June 20, 2020
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Cue the Violins
In memory of a music editor.
Blangsted reportedly died on May 1.
See also that date in this journal, among
other posts tagged The Next Level.
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Tuesday, May 5, 2020
In Memoriam: Jan Saxl, Mathematician
For the conference, see
https://www.birs.ca/events/2009/5-day-workshops/09w5030 .
For the Church of Synchronology:
“Time for you to see the field.” (Posts now tagged “For Banff 2009”)
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If Not Sublime
This is perhaps the same Robert Mezey, poet at Pomona College,
who reportedly died on April 25.
See a Pomona link, the Fano Hallows, from this journal on that date.
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Monday, May 4, 2020
The Man Behind the Counter
The title is a phrase from the Suzanne Vega song in the previous post.
“Always busy counting . . . .” — Tagline at Peter J. Cameron’s weblog.
“This morning brought the news that Jan Saxl died on Saturday.”
A search for Saxl in this weblog yields a post related to a topic in
Wolfram Neutsch’s book Coordinates. See Saturday’s post
“Turyn’s Octad Theorem: The Next Level.”
Related narrative from the Saturday post —
Related narrative from Sunday’s Westworld finale —
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The Thing and I …
Update at 4 PM —
“It is always
Nice to see you”
Says the man
Behind the counter
Tom Stall’s diner in “A History of Violence” (30 September 2005).
This journal on 30 September 2005 —
“This place ain’t doing me any good.
I’m in the wrong town,
I should be in Hollywood.”
— Dylan, “Things Have Changed“
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Sunday, May 3, 2020
Into the Westworld
He beomes aware of something else… some other presence.
“Anybody here?” he says.
I am here.
He almost jumps, it is so loud. Or it seems loud. Then he wonders if
he has heard anything at all.
“Did you speak?”
No.
How are we communicating? he wonders.
The way everything communicates with everything else.
Which way is that?
Why do you ask if you already know the answer?
— Sphere by Michael Crichton, Harvard ’64
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Saturday, May 2, 2020
Turyn’s Octad Theorem: The Next Level*
From the obituary of a game inventor who reportedly died
on Monday, February 25, 2013 —
” ‘He was hired because of the game,’ Richard Turyn,
a mathematician who worked at Sylvania, told
the Washington Post in a 2004 feature on Diplomacy.”
* For the theorem, see Wolfram Neutsch, Coordinates .
(Published by de Gruyter, 1996. See pp. 761-766.)
Having defined (pp. 751-752) the Miracle Octad Generator (MOG)
as a 4×6 array to be used with Conway’s “hexacode,” Neutsch says . . .
“Apart from the three constructions of the Golay codes
discussed at length in this book (lexicographic and via
the MOG or the projective line), there are literally
dozens of alternatives. For lack of space, we have to
restrict our attention to a single example. It has been
discovered by Turyn and can be connected in a very
beautiful way with the Miracle Octad Generator….
To this end, we consider the natural splitting of the MOG into
three disjoint octads L, M, R (‘left’, ‘middle’, and ‘right’ octad)….”
— From page 761
“The theorem of Turyn” is on page 764 —
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