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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Google AI-Powered-Overview Example

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:00 pm

Cullinane diamond theorem

"Finite geometry explains the surprising symmetry properties
of some simple graphic designs." Good summary.

May’s End

Filed under: General — m759 @ 9:51 am

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23162/23162-h/23162-h.htm

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Benchmark

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 7:23 pm

"He stopped at a bench where people could catch buses
from Somewhere to Elsewhere." — John Crowley, 1981

 

Hat tip to Stephanie Dick, now at Simon Fraser U.

The Tour

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:36 am

In memory of a co-founder of Hollywood's "Magic Castle"
who reportedly died at 92 on Sunday . . .

From posts that were tagged "Blake Tour" on Sunday

Seal 7 . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 5:24 am

Continues.

See John Baez this morning on Galois. Note that Baez's
report of Galois's dies natalis  is in error.

Monday, May 29, 2023

The Story Theory of Truth

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 6:15 pm

From the Feast of St. Nicholas, 2022

"Does the phrase 'vinegar and brown paper'
mean anything to you?"

See also other posts tagged Up the Hill.

Math for Preppies

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:25 am

Mashup

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 3:21 am

"When the men on the chessboard
get up and tell you where to go . . . ."

Don't take the Brown acid!

IMAGE- Illuminati Diamond, pp. 359-360 in 'Angels & Demons,' Simon & Schuster Pocket Books 2005, 448 pages, ISBN 0743412397

Sunday, May 28, 2023

Breadcrumbs for Gretel . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:47 pm

Continues .

 

Sophia Lillis at Woodstock Music Shop

Annals of Philosophy: Shadow Hacking

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:18 pm

In memory of philosopher Ian Hacking, who
reportedly died on May 10, some Log24 posts
are now tagged "Shadow Hacking."

Related material — Plato's Ghost  in this journal, and . . .

For a Stuntman . . .

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:16 am

… who reportedly died on May 25Posts now tagged Blake Tour.

Saturday, May 27, 2023

Dies Natalis

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:01 pm

A related question  — From posts now tagged Weil Misery —
(See today's previous post) . . .

Filters, Fog Machines, and Makeshift Devices

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:12 am

The title is from an April 9, 2019, post, "Old Guy with a Cane."

Related material —

  Senis Baculus 

Friday, May 26, 2023

Capilla Abierta : An Exercise in Bulk Apperception

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:36 am

The previous post suggests a review . . .

'Saddle Chapel' at Cuernavaca

The above remarks on topology  are, of course, about as well-informed
as the remarks of Barry Mazur on locales .

Saddle Design

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:03 am

For the title, see Saddle  in this  journal.

Friday, October 21, 2022

Meta Wordmark

Filed under: General — Tags: 
 — m759 @ 12:00 PM

Some will prefer the saddle shape of 

    Capilla Abierta.

Thursday, May 25, 2023

Woo for Burton (Tara Isabella Burton, that is)

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:07 am

"William Blake's statement in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
'Eternity is in love with the productions of time' is an adumbration
of the paradoxology of the game of hide-and-seek that Non-duality
is playing with and in celebration of itself in Ia divina commedia of
this night of its dream."

— Joseph Campbell in "The Inner Reaches of Outer Space" (©1986)

Related material from a Log24 search for "inscapes4"—

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Symmetries

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:03 pm

(In memory of Robert Zimmer, a mathematician
who reportedly died yesterday)

Quantamagazine.org Oct. 23, 2018 — Zimmer and symmetries

This  journal on the above date

Facilis Descensus

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:11 am

230524-OUP-HUP-logo-downgrades.jpg (500×665)

Related reading — OxfordHarvard.

For St. Sara’s Day

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:00 am

https://archive.org/details/
TheOxfordBookOfEnglishProse1925/
page/n333/mode/2up

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

“A Mad Day’s Work” (Hat tip to Pierre Cartier)*

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 6:37 pm

Logos —

Logos**

* See an interview.

** See other posts tagged Triangle.graphics.

“The Southwest Furthers”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:59 am

Monday, May 22, 2023

Triangular Hyperplane Arrangement

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:07 am

Abstract: Boolean functions on a triangular grid.

Note: It seems that the above rearrangement of a square array
of hyperplanes to a triangular array of hyperplanes, which was
rather arbitrarily constructed to have nice symmetries, will
answer a question posed here on Dec. 15, 2015.

See a check of the rearrangement.

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Ingathering

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 10:32 am

The reference to "Magic: The Gathering" in the previous post
suggests a review of "gathering" tales that I personally prefer —

Putting the “Art” in “Artificial”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 9:57 am

"So far, AIs produce abstract, almost surreal ideas, that
may lead you somewhere but have no consistent purpose."

— Greg Rutkowski, quoted on May 8, 2023, as below:

Source Code —

<title>What can be done to stop generative AI art? | Creative Bloq</title>

<meta name="pub_date" content="2023-05-08T07:30:27+00:00">

<meta name="description" content="These professional artists are
fighting back against generative AI art.">

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.creativebloq.com/features/
what-can-stop-generative-ai-art">

What if the AIs are named Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof?

Yesterday's "Electric Avenue" post suggests an image by Rutkowski
from "Magic: The Gathering" . . .

Saturday, May 20, 2023

In Memory of Author Martin Amis…

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:02 pm

who reportedly died yesterday — See April 11, 2019.

Ask Not . . . For Whom the Notifications Sleep

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:35 am


 

The Big Bokeh

Quality

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:06 am

Friday, May 19, 2023

Der Schlußstein des Gewölbes

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:41 am

From a search in this journal for Beethoven

Thursday, May 18, 2023

The Grave Dancer

Filed under: General — m759 @ 2:01 pm

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE) — It is with profound sadness
that Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR) mourns the death of its
Founder and Chairman, Samuel Zell, who died today at age 81.

New York CNN — 

By Allison Morrow, CNN

Updated 12:38 PM EDT, Thu May 18, 2023

Sam Zell, the Chicago real-estate magnate whose knack for buying up distressed assets turned him into a billionaire and earned him the nickname “grave dancer,” died on Thursday, his company said. He was 81.

Equity Residential, the company he founded decades ago, did not provide a cause of death but described Zell as an “iconic figure in real estate and throughout the corporate world.”

Among his wide-ranging portfolio of investments were distressed assets in real estate and in media, including an ultimately disastrous bet on the Tribune Company. Zell had a personal net worth of $5.9 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Zell had a penchant for scooping up cheap real estate and selling it later at a profit, a strategy he outlined in a 1978 article titled “The Grave Dancer,” which became his nickname in the industry.

“I was dancing on the skeletons of other people’s mistakes,” he wrote.

Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Barometers of Appropriateness

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:08 pm

LOOPER / BRANDON SHOAFF / MARCH 21, 2023 5:55 PM EST

"Speaking of artificial intelligence, it seems as if the creators of 'Mrs. Davis' have ironically chosen to utilize A.I. in the show's production. During a panel at the film festival South by Southwest, Lindelof mentioned how they used artificial intelligence and said, 'We thought it would be fun to build an A.I. that would title our episodes, and that we just basically said that whatever it comes up with, we have to stick to as long as it is appropriate for whatever barometers of appropriateness exist.'

Damon Lindelof continued and explained that in the process of creating the A.I. that would title episodes for the upcoming 'Mrs. Davis,' the artificial intelligence struggled to understand what a title actually was, despite the information that was filtered through the program. Lindelof then said that the entire production crew learned a great deal about algorithms and how A.I. works while attempting to get it to generate episode titles. In the end, Lindelof and the rest of the crew were quite happy with the results, noting that Episode 7 is titled 'Great Gatsby: 2001: A Space Odyssey.' "

Read More: https://www.looper.com/1234974/
mrs-davis-how-the-creators-actually-utilized-ai-
in-the-writers-room/

See also the previous post and "Merton College" in this  journal.

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