"Finite geometry explains the surprising symmetry properties
of some simple graphic designs." … Good summary.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Google AI-Powered-Overview Example
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Benchmark
"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
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 . . .
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
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.
Mashup
Sunday, May 28, 2023
Annals of Philosophy: Shadow Hacking
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 . . .
… who reportedly died on May 25 — Posts now tagged Blake Tour.
Saturday, May 27, 2023
Dies Natalis
Filters, Fog Machines, and Makeshift Devices
Friday, May 26, 2023
Capilla Abierta : An Exercise in Bulk Apperception
The previous post suggests a review . . .
The above remarks on topology are, of course, about as well-informed
as the remarks of Barry Mazur on locales .
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Woo for Burton (Tara Isabella Burton, that is)
"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
(In memory of Robert Zimmer, a mathematician
who reportedly died yesterday)
This journal on the above date —
For St. Sara’s Day
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
“A Mad Day’s Work” (Hat tip to Pierre Cartier)*
Monday, May 22, 2023
Triangular Hyperplane Arrangement
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.
Sunday, May 21, 2023
Ingathering
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”
"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…
… who reportedly died yesterday — See April 11, 2019.
Ask Not . . . For Whom the Notifications Sleep
Friday, May 19, 2023
Der Schlußstein des Gewölbes
Thursday, May 18, 2023
The Grave Dancer
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.
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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. |

























