Entertainment suggested by TV news tonight …
See as well some related humor.
Monday, October 31, 2016
Beeline
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Best Costume Design
"So, how do we sift truth from belief? How do we write
our own histories, personally or culturally, and thereby
define ourselves? How do we penetrate years, centuries,
of historical distortion to find original truth? Tonight, this
will be our quest."
— Robert Langdon, symbologist, in "The Da Vinci Code."
"… in Spain. There they are robes worn by priests."
— Langdon, op. cit.
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How do you stop an elephant from charging?
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Sunday, October 30, 2016
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Nine Years Ago…
And tomorrow's New York Times
Scene from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" included in
"The Living Dead," a 1995 BBC TV series by Adam Curtis —
Related material — A post from nine years ago today and
Adam Curtis in tomorrow's New York Times Magazine :
"Several times, Curtis and I circled back to
the notion of the 'hyperobject' — that which
is too big in time and space to comprehend."
See as well the BBC TV series in the previous post, "Boo."
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Boo
The word "intruders" in the previous post suggests
a Log24 search that yields …
A scene from the 2014 BBC TV series “Intruders”
(Season 1, Episode 1, at 9:22 of 45 min.)
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Friday, October 28, 2016
Diamond-Theorem Application
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Abstract: "Protection of digital content from being tapped by intruders is a crucial task in the present generation of Internet world. In this paper, we proposed an implementation of new visual secret sharing scheme for gray level images using diamond theorem correlation. A secret image has broken into 4 × 4 non overlapped blocks and patterns of diamond theorem are applied sequentially to ensure the secure image transmission. Separate diamond patterns are utilized to share the blocks of both odd and even sectors. Finally, the numerical results show that a novel secret shares are generated by using diamond theorem correlations. Histogram representations demonstrate the novelty of the proposed visual secret sharing scheme." — "New visual secret sharing scheme for gray-level images using diamond theorem correlation pattern structure," by V. Harish, N. Rajesh Kumar, and N. R. Raajan.
Published in: 2016 International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies (ICCPCT). |
Excerpts —
Related material — Posts tagged Diamond Theorem Correlation.
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
“Space Is the Place!”
Or: Pentagram Meets Counting-Pattern, Continued
Arts & Letters Daily today links to a Chronicle of Higher Education
piece on philosophy with an illustration by the late Paul Laffoley …
This suggests a review of Laffoley's work. In particular —
For a larger view of the above Laffoley pentagram, click here.
Contrast with Wittgenstein's "counting-pattern" above, which
is, in fact, a hyperspace.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Cartoonist’s Requiem
In memory of Jack T. Chick, 1924-2016.
Related material —
See also Log24 on the date of Chick's death.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Monday, October 24, 2016
Princeton Space
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From the Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, Daily Princetonian — The ever-elusive “space” is a word spoken into a great expanse of hopes and fears and delusions: “safe spaces,” “inclusive spaces,” “open spaces,” “green spaces,” “learning spaces.” In this space, words float around abstractly, almost effortlessly, seemingly without the weight of any gravity; appearing to be a distant glimmer of an idea, a once bright and assuring light, which— without much definition— easily fades into obscurity. Coming to Princeton, it’s tempting to feel as though the rhetoric surrounding the term “space” stretches the word out, magnifies it, and tacks it onto well-designed brochures and anonymous invitations. Yet the question remains— how do you comfortably situate yourself within the incredibly abstruse concept of “space,” especially when you happen to exist in a territory that has been occupied and claimed by an endless sea of others, and which has been upheld by an impregnable and deeply rooted history? In the process of interviewing various members of the University, one thing has become clear; the question of space is an issue that is pertinent to all members of the Princeton community. |
For greater depth on this topic, see the previous post.
For less depth, see a post of January 18, 2005.
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Sunday, October 23, 2016
Voids
From mathematician Izabella Laba today —
From Harry T. Antrim’s 1967 thesis on Eliot —
“That words can be made to reach across the void
left by the disappearance of God (and hence of all
Absolutes) and thereby reestablish some basis of
relation with forms existing outside the subjective
and ego-centered self has been one of the chief
concerns of the first half of the twentieth century.”
… And then there is the Snow White void —
A logo that may be interpreted as one-eighth of a 2x2x2 array
of cubes —
The figure in white above may be viewed as a subcube representing,
when the eight-cube array is coordinatized, the identity (i.e., (0, 0, 0)).
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Quartet
“The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church
is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare to-morrow
at breakfast.”
— G. K. Chesterton
Or Sunday dinner.
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Saturday, October 22, 2016
Magis
From "The Magis way: Notes on the publishing culture,"
by Giampiero Bosoni, at http://www.magisdesign.com/magis-world/ —
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"… perhaps it is interesting to reflect further on the relationship between a design object and a literary work, by reading (in whatever interpretative key you choose) the illuminating definition given by the great semiologist Roland Barthes of the act of writing and of the literary value of a text. 'Writing,' Barthes tells us, 'is historically an action that involves constant contradiction, based on dual expectations. One aspect of writing is essentially commercial, a means of control and segregation, steeped in the most materialistic aspect of society. The other is an act of pleasure, connected to the deepest urges of the body and to the subtlest and most successful products of art. This is how the written text is woven. All I have done is to arrange and reveal the threads. Now each can add his own warp to the weft.' [3] Magis’ long and highly advanced experience has given evidence, further confirmed by this latest publishing catalogue, of an ever-growing awareness of this necessary interweaving between warp and weft, between the culture of craftsmanship and that of industry, between design culture and business culture, between form and technique, between symbolic codes and practical functions, between poetry and everyday life." — Giampiero Bosoni [3] Barthes R., Variations sur l’écriture (1972), Editions du Seuil, Paris 1994, published in the second volume of the Oeuvres complètes 1966-1975 (freely translated from the Italian translation, Variazioni sulla scrittura seguite da Il piacere del testo , Ossola C. (editor) Einaudi, Turin 1999). |
See as well "Interweaving" in this journal.
"Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs
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Friday, October 21, 2016
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
The Intelligent User:
A Meditation on Two Dates
The dates are October 14, 2016, the release date of
the new film "The Accountant" —
"… clearer, more economical and formal, more liturgical."
— David Remnick on lyrics of Leonard Cohen
vs. those of Bob Dylan, quoted here on Oct. 14
— and May 12, 2016, the publication date of
a YouTube trailer for "The Accountant."
Also quoted in the May 12 post —
See as well the Ape with Skull (Affe mit Schädel) statue in
the Oct. 17 post Memorial Encounter. The version of the statue
pictured there omits the inscription "ERITIS SICUT DEUS"
in a book at the statue's base. There are related remarks on
Mephistopheles and Faust at a different weblog.
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Decoration
A search for "Crosswicks Curse" in this journal leads (indirectly) to …
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The Crosswicks Curse Continues
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Parametrization
The term "parametrization," as discussed in Wikipedia,
seems useful for describing labelings that are not, at least
at first glance, of a vector-space nature.
Examples: The labelings of a 4×4 array by a blank space
plus the 15 two-subsets of a six-set (Hudson, 1905) or by a
blank plus the 5 elements and the 10 two-subsets of a five-set
(derived in 2014 from a 1906 page by Whitehead), or by
a blank plus the 15 line diagrams of the diamond theorem.
Thus "parametrization" is apparently more general than
the word "coodinatization" used by Hermann Weyl —
“This is the relativity problem: to fix objectively
a class of equivalent coordinatizations and to
ascertain the group of transformations S
mediating between them.”
— Hermann Weyl, The Classical Groups ,
Princeton University Press, 1946, p. 16
Note, however, that Weyl's definition of "coordinatization"
is not limited to vector-space coordinates. He describes it
as simply a mapping to a set of reproducible symbols .
(But Weyl does imply that these symbols should, like vector-space
coordinates, admit a group of transformations among themselves
that can be used to describe transformations of the point-space
being coordinatized.)
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