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.
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Traumnovelle: ZZZ Accounting
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Friday, December 30, 2016
ZZZ Accounting
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*
From "The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic" —
"To store the programs as data, the computer would need
something new: a 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.





