Meanwhile, in this journal on the above Ice Stone date —
Thursday, December 31, 2020
The Dreaming Jewels . . .
Comments Off on The Dreaming Jewels . . .
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Space Force
New Yorker video today, at 14:00-14:25 —
"What's good about KenKen, and Sudoku, and crosswords,
all of those puzzles like that, is that they have grids to be filled in,
empty squares. I think there is something about human nature
that we want to fill up spaces. And if you're a puzzle person,
or almost anybody, and you see an empty grid, you want to
put something in those spaces. It gives a feeling of satisfaction
that you don't get often in life and that really feels good."
— Will Shortz, New York Times puzzle editor
"I can't get no… satisfaction…." — The Rolling Stones
The New Yorker recently restarted the Weiner story,
which includes —
"… the fall of 2017, when he began a twenty-one-month
prison sentence for sexting with a minor."
"You want to put something in those spaces."
— Will Shortz, New York Times puzzle editor
Yes, you do.
Weiner is now with a Brooklyn countertops company called IceStone.
Comments Off on Space Force
The Whiteboard Jungle
Detail:
A story in numbers:
It is what it is.
See also the phrase “Beautiful Mathematics” in this journal.
Comments Off on The Whiteboard Jungle
The Sixteenth Subset
A four-set has sixteen subsets. Fifteen of these symbolize the points
of “the smallest perfect universe,”* PG(3,2). The sixteenth is empty.
In memory of . . .
Polish this — “The Nothing That Is.”
* Phrase by Burkard Polster.
Comments Off on The Sixteenth Subset
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
Raiders of the Lost Coordinates
Variations on the title theme —
Comments Off on Raiders of the Lost Coordinates
Memorial by Kinbote for Cardin: WWW
A Harvard student* attempts to summarize Nabokov’s aesthetics —
“Take ‘Pale Fire,’ his 1962 poem-as-novel
bursting with butterfly as theme:
‘I can do what only a true artist can do —
pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation …
see the web of the world,
and the warp and the weft of that web.’ “
“True artist” here refers to Kinbote, not Nabokov.
* Tessa K.J. Haining, Harvard Crimson Contributing Opinion Writer.
Tessa K.J. Haining ’23 lives in Adams House. Her column appears on
alternate Fridays. December 11, 2020.
Comments Off on Memorial by Kinbote for Cardin: WWW
I Ching Geometry
Comments Off on I Ching Geometry
Monday, December 28, 2020
Theology for the Wiener Kreis
The previous post suggests a look at The New Yorker today —
Another “core claim” —
“Change arises from the structure of the object.“
See also Wiener Kreis and Schlick.
Comments Off on Theology for the Wiener Kreis
Childermas
Related material for innocents — Siobhan Roberts
on Conway’s Game of Life in today’s New York Times .
Those desiring greater literary depth may consult
this journal’s Gameplayers.
Comments Off on Childermas
Sunday, December 27, 2020
Knight Move for Trevanian
“Knight move” remark from The Eiger Sanction —
“I like to put people on myself by skipping logical steps
in the conversation until they’re dizzy.”
The following logical step — a check of the date Nov. 18, 2017 —
was omitted in the post Futon Dream on this year’s St. Stephen’s Day.
For further context, see James Propp in this journal.
Comments Off on Knight Move for Trevanian
V
From today’s post “Logo Animation” —
Related material from the art world —
Related entertainment —
“V. is whatever lights you to the end of the street: she is also the dark annihilation waiting at the end of the street.” (Tony Tanner, page 36, "V. and V-2," in Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Edward Mendelson. Prentice-Hall, 1978. 16-55). |
Midrash — Other posts tagged Annihilation.
Comments Off on V
Logo Animation
Related material from Log24 yesterday —
Click the Aquarius symbol for a puzzle.
A related animation —
Comments Off on Logo Animation
Box
“… a revisionist account of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz…
portrays the Wicked Witch of the West ….”
Note the ambiguity of the initials “WW” in the above passage,
mirrored in the current film title “WW84.”
Comments Off on Box
Saturday, December 26, 2020
Memorial
Comments Off on Memorial
For Children of the Labyrinth
Comments Off on For Children of the Labyrinth
Futon Dream
” There’s a line from the movie ‘The Paper Chase’, in which
the fearsome Professor Kingsfield tells a room of first-year
law-school students ‘You come in here with a skull full of mush …
and you leave thinking like a lawyer.’ “
— James Propp on December 14, 2020, in . . .
Related material — Japanese Bed.
Comments Off on Futon Dream
Friday, December 25, 2020
Design Theory
|
Mathematics
The Fano plane block design |
Magic
The Deathly Hallows symbol— |
Another name for the Fano plane design — The Ghostly Hallows.
From a search in this journal for Ghostly —
Comments Off on Design Theory
Ghosts of Christmas Present
Related material — Digital Theology in a search for Dyson Bits.
Comments Off on Ghosts of Christmas Present
Circle of Positivity
“A quick note on terminology. Members of the Circle
were logical empiricists, sometimes called logical positivists.
Positivism is the view that our knowledge derives from
the natural world and includes the idea that we can have
positive knowledge of it. The Circle combined this position
with the use of modern logic; the aim was to build a new
philosophy.”
— Edmonds, David. The Murder of Professor Schlick (p. vii).
Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
For aficionados of associative logic —
See Triple Cross in this journal and the Fano-plane circle
in the illustration below.
Comments Off on Circle of Positivity
Change Arises: Mathematical Examples
From old posts tagged Change Arises —
|
From Christmas 2005:
For the eightfold cube
For an rather more
Click on image for details. |
The phrase "change arises" is from Arkani-Hamed in 2013, describing
calculations in physics related to properties of the positive Grassmannian —
A related recent illustration from Quanta Magazine —
The above illustration of seven cells is not unrelated to
the eightfold-cube model of the seven projective points in
the Fano plane.
Comments Off on Change Arises: Mathematical Examples
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Change Arises: A Literary Example
The “Change Arises” part of the title refers to the previous post.
The 1905 “geometric object” there, a 4×4 square, appeared earlier,
in 1869, in a paper by Camille Jordan. For that paper, and the
“literary example” of the title, see “Ici vient M. Jordan .”
This post was suggested by the appearance of Jordan in today’s
memorial post for Peter M. Neumann by Peter J. Cameron.
Related remarks on Jordan and “geometrical objects” from 2016 —
These reflections are available from their author as a postprint.
Comments Off on Change Arises: A Literary Example
Change Arises
See posts so tagged.
"Change arises from the structure of the object." — Arkani-Hamed
Related material from 1936 —
Related material from 1905, with the "object" a 4×4 array —
Related material from 1976, with the "object"
a 4×6 array — See Curtis.
Related material from 2018, with the "object"
a cuboctahedron — See Aitchison.
Comments Off on Change Arises
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Facets . . .
“The book by Hesse has many facets ….” (Link added.)
— V. V. Nalimov, In the Labyrinths of Language ,
Ch. 1, “What Language Is,” p. 22.
Related philosophical speculation —
Comments Off on Facets . . .
Kind of a Drag
See also remarks from Berlin on the 6×6 square and . . .
a Harvard illustration from Linden Street —
Comments Off on Kind of a Drag
Associative Logic
“The bureaucratic innovations of the New Deal
fed into the powerful associative logic
of commonsense reasoning,
leading a number of Americans to equate science
with the technocratic, managerial liberalism
of Roosevelt and his allies.”
— http://bostonreview.net/science-nature/
andrew-jewett-how-americans-came-distrust-science
From a Log24 search for “Notes Toward” —
| “Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis, Incipit and a form to speak the word And every latent double in the word….” — Wallace Stevens, “Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction“ |
Comments Off on Associative Logic
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Small Venues
“… her art was rarely exhibited until the 1970s,
and then only sporadically and in small venues . . . .”
— New York Times obituary suggested by
today’s review,
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/
arts/artists-who-died-2020.html
“No ordinary venue.” — Song lyric
Related material now linked to in the previous post —
Comments Off on Small Venues
Monday, December 21, 2020
Re Volvo
“The crystal was a sort of magnifying glass,
vastly enlarging the things inside the block.
Strange things they were, too.”
Comments Off on Re Volvo