The title refers to the previous post.
Recommended reading:
From the above review —
"His book is the box; he himself is Maxwell's demon."
See also "Outside the Box" in this journal.
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Binary
"Benedict Cumberbatch Says a Journey
From Fact to Faith Is at the Heart of Doctor Strange"
— io9 yesterday
" 'This man comes from a binary universe where it’s all about logic,'
the actor told us at San Diego Comic-Con . . . .
'And there’s a lot of humor in the collision between Easter [sic ]
mysticism and Western scientific, sort of logical binary.' "
Related material — Strange Awards, April 14, 2016.
I prefer a different sort of journey. See Boole vs. Galois.
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Darkness Visible
Andrew O'Hehir on July 22 —
— and on July 27 —
"Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain
His dark materials to create more Worlds …
Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend
Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while,
Pondering his Voyage…."
— John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book II
For Benedict Cumberbatch as a "warie fiend,"
see posts now tagged Both Hands.
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More About Maya
"I implore you, teach me more about Maya."
— from a novel by Hermann Hesse —
This suggests a review —
See also posts now tagged Both Hands.
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Friday, July 29, 2016
The Cumberbatch Question
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Thursday, July 28, 2016
A Mad Day’s Work
Yesterday was the dies natalis , in the Catholic sense,
of the great cartoonist Jack Davis.
From an obituary —
From this journal yesterday afternoon and morning—
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The Giglmayr Foldings
Giglmayr's transformations (a), (c), and (e) convert
his starting pattern
1 2 5 6
3 4 7 8
9 10 13 14
11 12 15 16
to three length-16 sequences. Putting these resulting
sequences back into the 4×4 array in normal reading
order, we have
1 2 3 4 1 2 4 3 1 4 2 3
5 6 7 8 5 6 8 7 7 6 8 5
9 10 11 12 13 14 16 15 15 14 16 13
13 14 15 16 9 10 12 11 9 12 10 11
(a) (c) (e)
Four length-16 basis vectors for a Galois 4-space consisting
of the origin and 15 weight-8 vectors over GF(2):
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1
0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1
1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 .
(See "Finite Relativity" at finitegeometry.org/sc.)
The actions of Giglmayr's transformations on the above
four basis vectors indicate the transformations are part of
the affine group (of order 322,560) on the affine space
corresponding to the above vector space.
For a description of such transformations as "foldings,"
see a search for Zarin + Folded in this journal.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016
The Bialystock* Memorandum
"By the time Forrest Mars Jr. retired from active management
in 1999, it was an $18 billion-a-year company selling Snickers,
Uncle Ben’s Rice and Pedigree pet food."
— NY Times obituary by Sam Roberts for a business figure who
reportedly died yesterday (Uncle Ben's link added)
This, in light of the previous post, suggests a different passage
from yesterday's online New York Times —
* Spelling in honor of Max Bialystock —
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All About Eve
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Deathly Hallows
The previous post, on the July 13 death of computer scientist Robert Fano,
suggests a review of "Deathly Hallows" posts in this journal. From that review —
|
Mathematics
The Fano plane block design |
Magic
The Deathly Hallows symbol— |
For further information, click the image below —
.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
In Nomine Patris
"Robert Fano, an electrical engineer who was instrumental
in creating a world of instantly responsive computers, died
on July 13 in Naples, Fla. He was 98."
— John Markoff in this evening's online New York Times
"Fano's father was the mathematician Gino Fano . . . ."
A mnemonic I associate with the Fano plane — "Seven is Heaven . . . ."
Log24 on the date of Robert Fano's death —
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Installation: Area 51 Meets Apollo
Ben Lerner on Judd's art at Marfa —
"as if the installation were waiting to be visited
by an alien or god" — 10:04: A Novel
Oslo artist Josefine Lyche's public Instagram today —
See also Space (May 13, 2015).
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The Day of the Locus
From A. Trehub's remarks on the "space-like retinoid system"
mentioned by Bernd Schmeikal in his masterpiece of bullshit,
"Four Forms Make a Universe" —
The Self Locus
For a different grounding of the self, see the previous post.
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Pinpoint
"Pinpoint high note"
— Phrase by Margalit Fox in yesterday
morning's online NY Times
For a pinpoint low note, see …
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Monday, July 25, 2016
The Retinoid Self
"… which grounds the self" . . .
Popular Mechanics online today —
"Verizon exec Marni Walden seemed to
indicate Mayer's future may still be up in the air."
See also 5×5 in this journal —
"If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Viennese Thought Continues
"Now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes?" — Philip Roth
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She Thrusts Her Fists Against the Posts …
"Per the New York Times , embattled CEO Marissa Mayer
will not be joining the company, but is expected to receive
a $40 million severance package—as always, it pays to be
the boss. But Mayer said in a Tumblr post that she planned
to stay on—while Verizon exec Marni Walden seemed to
indicate Meyer's future may still be up in the air."
— Jake Swearingen
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Sunday, July 24, 2016
LA Stories
The contents page in the previous post is from a novel
by a Los Angeles screenwriter, Robert J. Avrech.
Avrech's story —
LA stories I prefer —
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In the Details
The previous post mentioned the late film publicist David Horowitz.
This post is more in the spirit of a different David Horowitz.
From a digital copy of The Hebrew Kid and the Apache Maiden —
Detail from lower right — the date 9/29/04 —
See also Log24 on that date (Michaelmas 2004).
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Late Show
"Sometime in the wee hours Linda wakes me up
after a troubled sleep and she said, ‘Look, he’s
got to go on the Carson show to make this right.’"
— The late David Horowitz,
according to an obituary
A different Carson show —
Horowitz reportedly died on Sunday, July 17, 2016.
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Point Omega …
In this post, "Omega" denotes a generic 4-element set.
For instance … Cullinane's
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or Schmeikal's
.
The mathematics appropriate for describing
group actions on such a set is not Schmeikal's
Clifford algebra, but rather Galois's finite fields.
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Saturday, July 23, 2016
Annals of Viennese Thought
From a University of Vienna researcher
quoted in yesterday's 11 AM ET post —
For further University of Vienna meditations, see Fitch.
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But Seriously …
Those who want a serious approach to the mathematics
of Clifford algebras — via finite geometry, the natural setting
of the four-group of the previous post — should consult
"Finite Geometry, Dirac Groups and the Table of
Real Clifford Algebras," by Ron Shaw (1995).
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Friday, July 22, 2016
The Four-Group Manifesto
"The four base units commute and satisfy
the multiplication table of the Klein 4 group."
— Bernd Schmeikal, article accepted
for publication on 11 April 2015
See also Log24 on 11 April 2015 (Orthodox Holy Saturday).
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