The date of the the above photo, November 8, 2015, suggests a look
at this journal on that date. See Sunday Art.
Saturday, August 31, 2024
Annals of British Humor
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Script Idea for Harlan Kane:
The Timeless Meets Time
"kalosmi lokaksaya krt pravrddho"
Also on July 13, 2023 . . .
From the Publications webpage of Dan Gordon —
Math Databases on the Cheap,
lightning talk at LuCaNT, July 2023.
Background from 2022 —
Gordon's informative webpage on mathematical repositories:
https://ljcr.dmgordon.org/cwm/jupyter_book/math_repos.html.
See also ICERM in this journal on November 14, 2012.
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The Timeless Meets Time
The Timeless Meets Time
Friday, August 30, 2024
Annals of Geometric Group Theory
"Eliyahu Rips, Who Claimed to Find
Secret Codes in the Torah, Dies at 75"
See also Gromov in this journal.
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Dimensions
From August 17 —
-Representations-Wikipedia.jpg)
Also from August 17, a dies natalis —
I prefer the "three D's" of Debbie Does Dallas.
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Thursday, August 29, 2024
Fearful Symmetry
Peter Woit this afternoon on "The Terrifying Power of Mathematics" —
"… the quantum field theory of fields satisfying the Dirac equation.
Here there’s a standard apparatus of how to calculate given in
every quantum field theory textbook. These standard calculations
involving Dirac gamma-matrices fit well with Feynman’s 'physicists
finding they have the correct equations without understanding them
have been so terrified they give up trying to understand them'."
For a definition of these matrices, see . . .
Weisstein, Eric W. "Dirac Matrices."
From MathWorld — A Wolfram Web Resource.
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/DiracMatrices.html —
"The Dirac matrices are a class of 4×4 matrices which arise
in quantum electrodynamics. There are a variety of different
symbols used, and Dirac matrices are also known as
gamma matrices or Dirac gamma matrices."
For related religious remarks, see "Physics for Poets"
( Log24, April 20, 2022 ).
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Walpurgisnacht and More!
Today’s Zuckerberg Temptation
In related news . . .
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Today’s Zuckerberg Temptation
Today’s Zuckerberg Temptation
The Coal Mining Daughters
Tag suggested by the previous post and by the dies natalis
in a New York Times obituary from today —
Kesey Benchmarks . . .
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Amaya
Scene from a TV series that reportedly reached Anya Taylor-Joy's
childhood home, Argentina, on August 29, 2021 . . .
Clip of Taylor-Joy in a film that opened on Augustine's Day, 2020.
Taylor-Joy is currently streaming in "Furiosa."
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Forms
'In the wide realm of the world
there are ancient forms,
incorruptible and eternal forms —
any one of them might be
the symbol that I sought."
— "The Writing of the God," by Jorge Luis Borges
"The governor showed him a cell
whose floor, walls, and vaulted ceiling
were covered by a drawing (in barbaric colors
that time, before obliterating, had refined)
of an infinite tiger. It was a tiger composed of
many tigers, in the most dizzying of ways;
it was crisscrossed with tigers, striped with tigers,
and contained seas and Himalayas and armies
that resembled other tigers."
— "The Zahir," by Jorge Luis Borges
Related art:
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For Augustine’s Day
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"Every city has its gates, which need not be of stone. Nor need soldiers be upon them or watchers before them. At first, when cities were jewels in a dark and mysterious world, they tended to be round and they had protective walls. To enter, one had to pass through gates, the reward for which was shelter from the overwhelming forests and seas, the merciless and taxing expanse of greens, whites, and blues–wild and free–that stopped at the city walls. In time the ramparts became higher and the gates more massive, until they simply disappeared and were replaced by barriers, subtler than stone, that girded every city like a crown and held in its spirit." — Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale |
Cervantes Oyster Shack sign, 2018,
from photo by marrific :
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Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Design Logic
From this journal on November 21, 2011 . . .
Joseph T. Clark, S. J., Conventional Logic and Modern Logic:
A Prelude to Transition (Philosophical Studies of the American
Catholic Philosophical Association, III) Woodstock, Maryland:
Woodstock College Press, 1952—
| Alonzo Church, "Logic: formal, symbolic, traditional," Dictionary of Philosophy (New York: Philosophical Library, 1942), pp. 170-182. | The contents of this ambitious Dictionary are most uneven. Random reference to its pages is dangerous. But this contribution is among its best. It is condensed. But not dense. A patient and attentive study will pay big dividends in comprehension. Church knows the field and knows how to depict it. A most valuable reference. |
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For Rubik Worshippers
The above is six-dimensional as an affine space, but only five-dimensional
as a projective space . . . the space PG(5, 2).
As the domain of the smallest model of the Klein correspondence and the
Klein quadric, PG (5,2) is not without mathematical importance.
See Chess Bricks and Ovid.group.
This post was suggested by the date July 6, 2024 in a Warren, PA obituary
and by that date in this journal.
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“Accomplished in Steps”
"It's going to be accomplished in steps,
this establishment of the Talented
in the scheme of things."
— To Ride Pegasus ,
by Anne McCaffrey* (Radcliffe '47)
An AI image created on Feb. 24, 2024, by https://neural.love —
"Lily Collins Playing Chess" —
* Dies Natalis: November 21, 2011.
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Monday, August 26, 2024
For the Spanish Steps: Amores Perros
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Annals of Entertainment:
Emily in Paris Meets Eyes Wide Shut
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Emily in Paris Meets Eyes Wide Shut
Emily in Paris Meets Eyes Wide Shut
Sunday, August 25, 2024
Log Lady Lines
From the post "Log Lady" of June 12, 2020 —
"Battle of White has raged on endlessly.
Everywhere Black will strive to seal his fate."
— Katherine Neville's chess novel The Eight
For Nathalie Emmanuel, star of the recent Francis Ford Coppola
extravaganza "Megalopolis" and, more impressively, of
a John Woo film released to streaming on Aug. 23 . . .
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Saturday, August 24, 2024
Right Up Sturgeon’s Alley
See as well the previous post for the above "Pearl" filming location,
an alley beside a movie theater in Whanganui, New Zealand.
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Bunker Bingo …
For Theodore Sturgeon (in Vonnegut's oeuvre, "Kilgore Trout") —
Memoir of a (fictional) Whanganui Projectionist and . . .
Related posts: Music for Steiner .
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Landmarks
From a Log24 post of May 11, 2022 . . .
From a John Woo film released to streaming on Aug. 23 . . .
Related reading: Hexagram 43.
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Language Game for Harlan Kane:
The Mountain Fountain
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The Mountain Fountain
The Mountain Fountain
From Megalopolis … Back to Paris
Foreword: Emmanuel in this journal.
Prompted by the time 0:47:41 in the above John Woo scene,
some may wish to consult hexagrams 47 and 41.
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Friday, August 23, 2024
One Hundred Years of Showbiz
For James Joyce . . . "Here Comes Little Miss Everybody!"
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Scandia Tech
In my long-ago high school days, the above title referred to
an imaginary local institution of higher education.
Memories of those days inspired the URL Scandia.tech.
See also the real Scandia, about nine miles northeast of my old school . . .
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For Harlan Kane: The Sicilian Defense
From the Feast of Saint Nicholas, 2023 . . .
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