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Sunday, August 31, 2025

Chinatown Story

Filed under: General — m759 @ 6:49 pm

  Minority Report:

Brick  Space .

Annals of Associative Logic
von Franz on Pauli’s dream: “A dance* results.”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:53 pm

See as well Dirty Dancing (1987)  and . . .

Related cinematic quotation —

"She's like the wind."

Related minimalist illustration —

Note the "357" central row in the figure at right above.

* Related posts:  http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="A+dance+results" .

“Back to the Old AI Overview”

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 3:57 pm

Prelude:  Project Hail Gaitskill . . .

The opening sentences of "The Parrot in the Machine," by James Gleick
in The New York Review of Books  of July 24, 2025 —

"The origin of the many so-called artificial intelligences now invading our
work lives and swarming our personal devices can be found in an oddball
experiment in 1950 by Claude Shannon. Shannon is known now as the
creator of information theory, but then he was an obscure mathematician
at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York’s West Village."

Why Gaitskill? . . . See 

"The House We Lived In," by Mary Gaitskill
in her Substack on May 02, 2025.

More recently . . .

Going from Bad to Verse . . . Illustrated

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:01 pm

Saturday, August 30, 2025

“An Interface of Paradox”

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:58 pm

More Cultural Guidance* from AI Overview!

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 1:29 pm

For an earlier confused AI Overview that suggested, through
the use of associative logic, the above misleading search,
vide  yesterday's post on the four-color decomposition theorem.

* For some cultural guidance that seems actually helpful ,
vide  https://aiching.app/iching/hexagram-29/
(Some may question to what extent this "AI Ching" app
actually uses  AI, but its remarks on Hexagram 29  seem
at least harmless, compared to some other AI oracles.)

In Search of . . . The Little Red King

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 12:43 pm

From the previous post, a result of playing around
with associative logic —

By Stephen King

Kohs Block Design Test illustrating four-color decomposition theorem

Kohs Block Design Test figure
illustrating the four-color decomposition theorem

Some backstory — Kohs himself.

Friday, August 29, 2025

Associations Galore

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:44 pm

The name " Link " in an earlier post from today suggests a search . . .

Related material from the search-associated dates above . . .

  • July  10, 2013 —  See the post Diagon Alley.
  • July  12, 2017 —  See the post Visor.
  • June 17, 2019 —  See posts tagged Master Plan.

The Four-Color Decomposition Theorem: An AI Overview

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 7:35 pm

For Honey West*

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 5:25 pm

Instagram version of actress Anne Francis in a 1960 Serling episode:

* Partly a product of writers Levinson and Link.

“Now put the foundation under it” — Adapted from Thoreau

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:28 pm

The Moon Side of the Dark

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:17 pm

C. S. Lewis, according to David Justice,
"surveys the spectrum of plot-outlines."

A related image —

Safka for Kafka

Filed under: General — m759 @ 12:13 pm

Heaven's Gate

Susanne K. Langer,'Philosophy in a New Key'

Thursday, August 28, 2025

History Activity

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:14 pm

Signs

Filed under: General — m759 @ 1:07 pm

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Map News

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:51 pm

Semitism for St. Cecilia

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 4:44 am

Time in Venice, Italy: 10:44  AM  Wednesday, August 27, 2025 (GMT+2)

'The Power Of The Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts,' by Rudolf Arnheim

Cover illustration:

Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.

Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica ,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

The AllSpark as Agent 13

Springsteen to a possible  Agent 13

"Is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?"

 

Updates the same day . . .

Time in Venice, Italy: 8:35 PM  Wednesday, August 27, 2025 (GMT+2)

Related art from the dies natalis  of Rudolf Arnheim —

 

Time in Venice, Italy: 10:10 PM  Wednesday, August 27, 2025 (GMT+2)

In the end the space itself is the star

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

For Fans of the Coen Brothers’ “Hail, Caesar!”

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 8:12 pm

Related Platonic imagery . . .

"Red sky at night . . ."

Backstories

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:42 pm

The previous post suggests a flashback . . .

Vide  http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=on120410.

Not your grandfather's Appian Way.

See as well . . .

The Mystery of the Vanishing Heinleins.

Overview AI

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 3:53 pm

Zuckerberg for Salinger:  Roofbeams and AI Girls

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

A view some may prefer . . .

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

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

At the Glass Asylum:  Together Again!

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:47 pm

Symptoms of Cultural Breakdown

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 2:17 pm

Using AI for Search:
Combinatorial Partitions as Projective Lines …
Within the Klein Quadric

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 1:17 pm

Some backstory: yesterday's post "Using AI: Search vs. Chat."

Vide  a PDF of the complete Grok report —

In its five-and-a-half-minute research and reasoning process
Grok was able to reference a post from this weblog, but it missed
the correct  answer to the prompt — Cullinane's "four-color
decomposition theorem
" in the following weblog image:

Monday, August 25, 2025

Using AI: Search vs. Chat

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:42 pm

Adapted song lyric —
"I used Chat, Chat used me, neither one cared."

What if we read the above machine-boilerplate "Comments Off"
remark ending a May 6 Log24 post as a dramatist's note? 

Related reading — 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/
ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html
 —

"Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise
perfectly sane man became convinced that he was
a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.

. . . We received a full export of all of Allan Brooks’s conversations
with an OpenAI chatbot and analyzed a subset of the conversations
starting from May 6, 2025, when he began the chat about pi." 

Thrust

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:06 pm

A Song for Lily

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 12:56 pm

"I'm an elevator operator . . . ."

This post is in part to avoid confusion between the above artist
and an artist whose similar work is featured in the previous post.

Animation

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:13 pm

"Gödel, Escher . . . Lyche ?"

http://www.log24.com/log/pix11A/110505-ThemeAndVariations-Hofstadter.jpg

The Dream of the Spinning Dancer

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 10:27 am
 

Friday, October 12, 2012

Columbus Day Dream 

— m759 @ 6:00 pm
 

"… At the hour of vespers
in a sudden blinding snow,
they entered the harbor…."

— Jorie Graham,
"The Dream of the Unified Field"

Other snow dreams—

Master Class and

Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities.

This flashback was suggested by Cristi Stoica's "Spinning Dancer" post
on an earlier Columbus day.

Fans of Aldous Huxley may enjoy other posts tagged Petri Pictoris.

Sunday, August 24, 2025

Box Office

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 8:08 pm

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