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Saturday, July 19, 2025

Traumnovelle:  ZZZ Accounting

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:04 am

The "Barth Art" tag in the previous post, a reference to 
a visual artist, suggests a check of the dies natalis  of
mathematician  Wolf Barth — December 30, 2016.

Friday, July 18, 2025

Eddington Mean Girl

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 6:55 pm

Pascal (Pedro, not Blaise) . . .

♫ "By the time I get to Phoenix . . . ."

Friday, December 30, 2016

ZZZ Accounting

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:48 pm

Or:  Lost in Conversion

The main title is the name of Ben Affleck's firm in "The Accountant."
The subtitle was suggested by religious remarks in the previous post.

From "The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic" —

"The following June, 1945, von Neumann penned
what would become a historic document entitled
'First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC,' the first published
description of a stored-program binary computing machine—
the modern computer."

Image from von Neumann's report

Version converted to text —

See also "Turing + Dyson" in this journal . . . 

For a character  that "spans both worlds,"
see posts tagged "Oscar Day 2007."

Related image data —

" 'No views' is good." — Christian Wolff

For the Accountant*

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:17 pm

From "The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic" —

"To store the programs as data, the computer would need
something newa memory. That’s where Pitts’ loops 
came into play.  'An element which stimulates itself
will hold a stimulus indefinitely,' von Neumann wrote
in his report . . . ."

Amanda Gefter, Nautilus , Feb. 5, 2015

Related material —

"Here we go loop de loop" — Johnny Thunder, 1962

* I.e., Ben Affleck in his new film.

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