Saturday, March 31, 2018
"Those seeking an understanding of the historical elements
of Jesus’ saga might find it profitable to engage the vast work
of David Friedrich Strauss, the German intellectual, whose
monumental 'The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined' was
translated into English in the 19th century by George Eliot.
(At times, the translation reads like a scholarly 'Middlemarch,'
much to its credit.)"
— Jon Meacham in the Easter Sunday print edition of
The New York Times. The above passage is
paragraph 10 of Meacham's article.
See also "Over the Mountains" (Log24, Feb. 21, 2018).
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For Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan —
See also a Log24 post from the above Cube Theory date —
April 12, 2016 — Lyrics for a Cartoon Graveyard — as well as . . .
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“The greatest obstacle to discovery
is not ignorance —
it is the illusion of knowledge.”
— Daniel J. Boorstin,
Librarian of Congress,
quoted here in 2006.
Related material —
Remarks on Rubik's Cube from June 13, 2014 and . . .
See as well a different Gresham, author of Nightmare Alley ,
and Log24 posts on that book and the film of the same name .
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From a post of April 15, 2006 —
From elsewhere —
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Friday, March 30, 2018
The online New York Times this evening has an obituary
for "an unorthodox … drama scholar" who reportedly died
on Thursday, March 22, 2018.
Some drama in this journal from around that date — in posts
tagged "The Cubes" — includes the following excerpt from
a graphic novel:
"Program or be programmed."
— A saying by the author of the above graphic novel.
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Thursday, March 29, 2018
The title reverses a phrase of Fano —
“costruire (o, dirò meglio immaginare).”
Illustrations of imagining (the Fano plane) and of constructing (the eightfold cube) —
The Fano plane and the eightfold cube
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From the Diamond Theorem Facebook page —
A question three hours ago at that page —
"Is this Time Cube?"
Notes toward an answer —
And from Six-Set Geometry in this journal . . .
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Or: The Discreet Charm of Stéphane
For Lisa Halliday
Supplementary images —
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Wednesday, March 28, 2018
A comment on the the Diamond Theorem Facebook page —
Those who enjoy asymmetry may consult the "Expert's Cube" —
For further details see the previous post.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Related material on automorphism groups —
The "Eightfold Cube" structure shown above with Weyl
competes rather directly with the "Eightfold Way" sculpture
shown above with Bryant. The structure and the sculpture
each illustrate Klein's order-168 simple group.
Perhaps in part because of this competition, fans of the Mathematical
Sciences Research Institute (MSRI, pronounced "Misery') are less likely
to enjoy, and discuss, the eight-cube mathematical structure above
than they are an eight-cube mechanical puzzle like the one below.
Note also the earlier (2006) "Design Cube 2x2x2" webpage
illustrating graphic designs on the eightfold cube. This is visually,
if not mathematically, related to the (2010) "Expert's Cube."
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Monday, March 26, 2018
Sunday, March 25, 2018
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Saturday, March 24, 2018
From a personal Kindle library —
From the world of mass entertainment —
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See also a search in this journal for Compulsion.
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The search for Langlands in the previous post
yields the following Toronto Star illustration —
From a review of the recent film "Justice League" —
"Now all they need is to resurrect Superman (Henry Cavill),
stop Steppenwolf from reuniting his three Mother Cubes
(sure, whatever) and wrap things up in under two cinematic
hours (God bless)."
For other cubic adventures, see yesterday's post on A Piece of Justice
and the block patterns in posts tagged Design Cube.
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Friday, March 23, 2018
Copy editing — From Wikipedia
"Copy editing (also copy-editing or copyediting, sometimes abbreviated ce)
is the process of reviewing and correcting written material to improve accuracy,
readability, and fitness for its purpose, and to ensure that it is free of error,
omission, inconsistency, and repetition. . . ."
An example of the need for copy editing:
Related material: Langlands and Reciprocity in this journal.
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On the Oslo artist Josefine Lyche —
"Josefine has taken me through beautiful stories,
ranging from the personal to the platonic
explaining the extensive use of geometry in her art.
I now know that she bursts into laughter when reading
Dostoyevsky, and that she has a weird connection
with a retired mathematician."
— Ann Cathrin Andersen,
http://bryggmagasin.no/2017/behind-the-glitter/
Personal —
The Rushkoff Logo
— From a 2016 graphic novel by Douglas Rushkoff.
See also Rushkoff and Talisman in this journal.
Platonic —
The Diamond Cube.
Compare and contrast the shifting hexagon logo in the Rushkoff novel above
with the hexagon-inside-a-cube in my "Diamonds and Whirls" note (1984).
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Thursday, March 22, 2018
Also on March 18, 2015 . . .
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The Java applets at the webpage "Diamonds and Whirls"
that illustrate Cullinane cubes may be difficult to display.
Here instead is an animated GIF that shows the basic unit
for the "design cube" pages at finitegeometry.org.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2018
MIPS Illustrated — (The above computing meaning from Wiktionary,
"millions of instructions per second") —
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WISC = Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
RISC = Reduced Instruction Set Computer or
Rust Inventory of Schizotypal Cognitions
See related material in earlier WISC RISC posts.
See also . . .
"Many parents ask us about the Block Design section
on the WISC and hope to purchase blocks and exercises
like those used on the WISC test. We explain that doing that
has the potential to invalidate their child's test results.
These Froebel Color Cubes will give you a tool to work with
your child on the skills tested for in the Block Design section
of the WISC in an ethical and appropriate way. These same
skills are applicable to any test of non-verbal reasoning like
the NNAT, Raven's or non-verbal sections of the CogAT or OLSAT. "
— An online marketing webpage
For a webpage that is perhaps un ethical and in appropriate,
see Block Designs in Art and Mathematics.
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The title is from the URL of a paper discussed here yesterday
in the post "Mad Men vs. Math Men" —
https://www.psychometrics.cam.ac.uk/
uploads/documents/docs2016/RISC/RISCSects .
Abstract (See also a webpage on this and related publications.) —
Related material from today's news —
Update: For further background, see a WIRED article from today.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Video starring the CEO of Cambridge Analytica —
Related material from John Rust, now the director of the
Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge —
My own sympathies are with the Mad Men.
See also Rust in the previous post, Cambridge Psychometrics.
He is known for the UK version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale
for Children.
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* Not to be confused with Cambridge Analytica.
See also Wechsler in this journal.
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Monday, March 19, 2018
"Ready for More?" — The Times
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Sunday, March 18, 2018
From The Atlantic , September 2017 issue, online —
"How America Lost Its Mind," by former Harvard Lampoon
writer Kurt Andersen —
Related material —
"There is a transformation, a metamorphosis that's going on here."
— Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica
The Lucasian Version —
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