November « 2024

Saturday, November 30, 2024

Our Haptic Future?

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:59 pm

“The Platters were singing ‘Each day I pray for evening just to be with you,’ and then it started to happen. The pump turns on in ecstasy. I closed my eyes, I held her with my eyes closed and went into her that way, that way you do, shaking all over, hearing the heel of my shoe drumming against the driver’s-side door in a spastic tattoo, thinking that I could do this even if I was dying, even if I was dying, even if I was dying; thinking also that it was information. The pump turns on in ecstasy, the cards fall where they fall, the world never misses a beat, the queen hides, the queen is found, and it was all information.”

— Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis, August 2000
Pocket Books paperback, page 437

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Ah . . . *

Filed under: General — Tags: Crimson and Clover — m759 @ 6:06 am

New art print shop — https://art.marcelanowak.com/collections/all.

* Opening, "Crimson and Clover."

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The Whistleblower Revelado

Filed under: General — Tags: October X Case Study — m759 @ 3:34 am

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Friday, November 29, 2024

Black Friday for Emma Watson

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:17 pm

Ms. Watson recently updated her Instagram page
with a holiday ad for her family's gin that very nicely
displays her artistic skills … in the manner of Matisse.

Hence this Black Friday greeting for her, which illustrates
the phrase "Behind the Black Door." —

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“Remember, Remember the Fifth of November.”

Filed under: General — Tags: Geometric Imagery — m759 @ 3:33 pm

Related reading . . . Max and Dorothea.

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Revelado: A Drama for Coppola

Filed under: General — Tags: In Loco — m759 @ 1:32 pm

Episode 6 of "The Penguin" is titled "The Gold Summit."
I am savoring this series, watching it slowly, and I just saw the scene*
described as the Gold Summit. It takes place under what the scene
calls "the Eliot** Bridge," but the scene opening shows what seems to be
an area of Brooklyn under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.

Vide Private Gray.

*42:45 – 48:53.

** An actual Eliot Bridge in Cambridge, Mass., crosses the Charles River
at Weld Boathouse. The bridge, built in 1950, was named in part for Harvard
president Charles Eliot, author of inscriptions on my hometown public library
that I read many times growing up.

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A Song for Heinlein

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:03 am

Just uphill from Robert A. Heinlein's former home in Laurel Canyon —

♫ "Slow down, you move too fast . . ."

Entities for an AI Overview

Filed under: General — Tags: Geometric Imagery, Timeless — m759 @ 5:20 am

Thomas Wolfe, On Time and the River* —

"The great river burned there in his vision
in that light of fading day and it was hung there
in that spell of silence and for ever, and it was
flowing on for ever, and it was stranger than a legend,
and as dark as time."

For the birthdate of Madeleine L'Engle and C. S. Lewis,
two geometric entities . . . Tesseract and MOG —

Related unicode for fans of Siri Hustvedt, who wrote
Mysteries of the Rectangle —

Related AI Overview —

"Specifically" correction —
Vide http://www.davidgorman.com/4quartets/3-salvages.htm.

* “I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river
Is a strong brown god . . . ." — "The Dry Salvages"

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Thursday, November 28, 2024

From Oz: “Remember, Remember . . .”

Filed under: General — Tags: Art Plan — m759 @ 11:15 am

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Thanksgiving Koan for Red One

Filed under: General — Tags: Alias: Red One, Private Gray — m759 @ 8:49 am

Koan:

"What was your original face before you were born?"

Hint from Wallace Stevens:

"That which was public green turned private gray."
— Wallace Stevens

Koan reply:

ELF's Bounty

"Down under Manhattan Bridge Overpass,
Private Gray tries not to think of an elephant."

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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

For Those Who Prefer Spheres to Cubes . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: Throwing Shapes — m759 @ 10:50 pm

From this journal on April 2, 2019 —

Cover design by Greg Stadnyk, available in an animated gif.

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For the Still Point: “Congregated Light”

Filed under: General — Tags: Clerisy, Congregated Light, Throwing Shapes — m759 @ 11:28 am

An instance of T. S. Eliot's poetic "still point" is the
center of a 3x3x3 Galois cube made up of 27 subcubes …
Not Rubik's puzzle, whose center is a mere mechanical contrivance.

Associated with that Galois cube is the set of
13 symmetry axes of its central subcube.

The figure above is not unrelated to the so-called "free will theorem."

Mathematician Peter J. Cameron's recent quotation of St. Bernard*
on free will and grace, while not impressive as a philosophical
statement, is at least preferable to the TV sitcom "Will and Grace."

See also the notion of free will in other posts tagged "Congregated Light."

Some context: Tom Wolfe, below, on the word "clerisy." It seems that the
word applies to many academics besides those in areas named by Wolfe.

* Vide http://www.catholictradition.org/Tradition/efficacious-grace3.htm#67 —
"De gratia et Libero arbitrio, chaps. 1 and 14."

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Hoarding Space*

Filed under: General — Tags: Decomposition — m759 @ 4:38 am

The domain bitcube.space has now been renewed for another year.
It leads to — among other things — the following remarks . . .

Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics, by David Corfield, Cambridge U. Press, 2003, p. 206:

“Now, it is no easy business defining what one means by the term conceptual…. I think we can say that the conceptual is usually expressible in terms of broad principles. A nice example of this comes in the form of harmonic analysis, which is based on the idea, whose scope has been shown by George Mackey (1992) to be immense, that many kinds of entity become easier to handle by decomposing them into components belonging to spaces invariant under specified symmetries.”

For a simpler example of this idea, see the entities in The Diamond Theorem, the decomposition in A Four-Color Theorem, and the space in Geometry of the 4×4 Square. The decomposition differs from that of harmonic analysis, although the subspaces involved in the diamond theorem are isomorphic to Walsh functions– well-known as discrete analogues of the trigonometric functions of traditional harmonic analysis.

* See that phrase in this journal.

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For the Umbrella Academy, a Meditation on Turning 25:
New Dog, Old Tricks

Filed under: General — Tags: Private Gray, Shadow Hacking — m759 @ 3:05 am

Hometown newspaper on the day I turned 25 —

A Sequel for Rubik: Turning 27 —

Related meditations: Turning.

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Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Annals of Surreality — “Literate Programming” Continued

Filed under: General — Tags: Surreal Numberland — m759 @ 6:34 pm

To clarify the previous post . . .

The "other intelligent being" in the Diamond Theory Studio example
below is the artificial intelligence at https://websim.ai .

To use WebSim, one simply states in plain English what one wants
a webpage to do, and WebSim constructs the page.

The above webpage, Diamond Theorem Studio, is an example of the
WebSim end product. Its construction was surprisingly easy … for the
human side of the process. For the code produced by
the AI side of the process, view my personal uploaded version of the
page at http://log24.com/DT/Websim-Diamond-Theorem-Studio.html
and then view that page's source code in the usual way.

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Annals of Surreality: “Other Intelligent Beings”

Filed under: General — Tags: Surreal Numberland, Yoda — m759 @ 10:27 am

For "the Yoda of Silicon Valley" . . .

See posts on programming the "Tents of Armageddon."

"It is the difference between performing and exposing
a magic trick." — Ross Williams on "literate programming"

Sometimes performing is exposing. See "Strip Joints."

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Annals of Surreality:
The Rat Pack Counteroffensive

Filed under: General — Tags: QDOS, Surreal Numberland — m759 @ 8:18 am

Wiki'd!

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Annals of Surreality:
Good News for KylieTastic!

Filed under: General — Tags: Alias: Red One, Surreal Numberland — m759 @ 7:31 am

The Wikiator* Defeats Red One , 169 to 13!

*Wiki'd!

An image from this journal on June 29, 2019 —

For the KylieTastic of this post's title, see a Wikipedia note.

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Monday, November 25, 2024

Moving Forward . . .

Filed under: General — Tags: Registration — m759 @ 6:38 pm

From Halloween 2024 (Log24 )—

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=" Tree"+"Stone" .

"We should definitely touch base moving forward."
— "Sweethearts" (2024)

From today (The New York Times ) —

See as well today's New York Times obituary of Mr. Caponigro,
who reportedly died on November 10 at 91 . . .

"Paul John Jerome Caponigro was born on Dec. 7, 1932, in Boston.
His father, George Caponigro, was an Italian immigrant whose many jobs
included floorer and mushroom farmer. His mother, Mary (Cultrera) Caponigro,
who was from Sicily, managed the home."

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Longfellow vs. Snark

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:46 am

"Such were the plans I'd made" — 1974 song lyric

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow —
"Life is real! Life is earnest!"

"New horizons open up!"
— Anonymous NY Times wit, 1924

Gatsby-Era Times Snark —

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From a Word-Wizard: Into the Claremont Woods

Filed under: General — Tags: Snow Invariance — m759 @ 9:52 am

"We are freed from one enchantment, only to be ensorcelled by another.⁷

7. Imagine, say, a boy forming the icy shards of reason into
a picture of eternity. The metaphor is not inadequate."

— Yu, E. Lily. The Time Invariance of Snow .
Tor Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

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Oz Noir

Filed under: General — Tags: Oz Noir — m759 @ 9:18 am

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A Swan Boat for Wiig

Filed under: General — m759 @ 7:58 am

"Then moved o’er the waters by might of the wind
that bark like a bird with breast of foam,
till in season due, on the second day,
the curved prow such course had run
that sailors now could see the land,
sea-cliffs shining, steep high hills,
headlands broad." — Beowulf

Or its prowess . . .

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For a Blackboard Jungle: Bridget Variations

Filed under: General — Tags: Glad Rags, St. Bridget's Day — m759 @ 7:27 am

From a post of St. Bridget's Day 2024 —

Also from that day —

This post was suggested by the St. Bridget's cross at lower right
in the shapes array below —

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Sunday, November 24, 2024

Annals of Mathematics:
Michael Harris on AI (and Vice Versa)

Filed under: General — Tags: Aspects, Galois Window, The Seventh Footnote — m759 @ 9:52 am

In his seventh footnote,* Harris quotes an old ChatGPT response to a query
about himself that he made at some unspecified time in the past —

Fact checks from this morning on the functioning of ChatGPT —

* For some context, see a PDF of all posts tagged
The Seventh Footnote.

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“Electric Dreams”

Filed under: General — Tags: Art Space, Aspects — m759 @ 7:37 am

The posts in the Log24 search

http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Electric+Dreams"

suggest a look at . . .

Financial Times, Sunday morning, Nov. 24, 2024 —

"With hindsight, Harold Cohen’s story looks like a parable, a possibility for an artist to neither dominate nor fear encroaching technology, but to grow alongside it.

His is one of many little-known stories told in Tate Modern’s new exhibition Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet (opening on November 28), which brings together work from more than 70 artists inspired by and creating art with technology between the end of the second world war and the dawn of the internet as we know it in the early 1990s. This spans a period of immense technological development during which, as curator Val Ravaglia points out, the computer evolved from being the size of an entire room to a discreet box that could fit on or under a desk. The artists who harnessed and responded to this rapid social change provide an intriguing precedent for many of the conversations playing out in the art world today."

Related art: "Take all the tokens in the pot!" —