The most recent "Blacklist" episode suggests a review —
"Where past and future are gathered" — Four Quartets
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Friday, May 5, 2023
Dungeons, Dragons, and Wishing Wells
This journal ten years ago today —
This journal on April 10, 2022 —
Be careful what you wish for.
You might get . . .
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For St. Corky Lee
Today's Google Doodle honors a Chinese-American photographer
who reportedly died on January 27, 2021.
From his dies natalis (birth into heaven, in the Catholic tradition) —
See as well some background on a Chinese-related cube.
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The Singularity Speaks
"Extremely elementary," my dear Watson.
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For the Dragon School . . .
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Religious Vocabulary — “Hier Stehe Ich”
"I stood quietly, like a fսcking moron . . ."
Read more at:
https://tvshowtranscripts.ourboard.org/
viewtopic.php?f=1820&t=62232
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Thursday, May 4, 2023
The Hemingway Clause
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For Stephen King’s Night Table
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Into the West: Coachella* Concert
A trip down Memory Lane with the Eurythmics, and
a lullaby from Steely Dan.
"Some prefer more rural tunes . . . "
"I want to ride to the ridge where the West commences . . ."
* See a Log24 post of April 26, 2023.
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For Blacklist Fans: The Intelligencers
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“The Nothing That Is”*
The New York Times reports a March 26 death —
* Results of a title search —
For Thalia — "Apart from that, Mrs. Kaplan . . ."
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Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Art Lesson for Doktor Faustus
Exercise: Show that Dürer's 1514 "magic" square is an affine automorphism.
For a solution, see other posts now tagged Affine Squares.
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Art Lesson for Bardo College
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Kernels
Continued from yesterday's "Kernel" —
The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
has a news release today on an expert on "kernels,"
in the sense that they are used in AI —
"Schölkopf [link added] is recognized for his
widely used research in machine learning,
advancing both mathematical foundations and
a broad range of applications in science and
industry."
From Schölkopf in 2002 —
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Personal Folklore
From my hometown newspaper
on the eve of my 16th birthday —
"Just the facts, ma'am."
— A saying falsely attributed to the
LAPD's Sergeant Joe Friday .
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