Minority Report:
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" .
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 . . .

Time in Venice, Italy: 10:44 AM Wednesday, August 27, 2025 (GMT+2)
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Cover illustration:
Spies returning from the land of
Colored woodcut from |
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)
The previous post suggests a flashback . . .
Vide http://m759.net/wordpress/?tag=on120410.
Not your grandfather's Appian Way.
See as well . . .
A view some may prefer . . .
Just uphill from Robert A. Heinlein's former home in Laurel Canyon —
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:

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."
♫ "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.
Friday, October 12, 2012
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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.
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