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Thursday, October 1, 2026
Friday, November 13, 2020
A Dyad for Ariana
From The New Yorker yesterday —
“The professor and the politician are a dyad of perpetual myth.”
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Sunday, November 1, 2020
Ariana’s Erdős number . . . 34 + 35
Related game —
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Thursday, October 1, 2026
The Crimson Passion:
Castle and Foundation*
From a Log24 search for Ariana . . .
* Reference to a Thoreau quote —
"If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Switchin’ the Positions (Revised Standard Version)
The title refers to a recent Ariana Grande video.
Academics may prefer . . .
For a purely mathematical approach to switching the positions see . . .
.
For related philosophical remarks, see "Arrowy, Still Strings."
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Saturday, March 27, 2021
Sex Dynamics at Harvard
See also a search for Evolutionary Dynamics in this journal.
That search leads to an article co-authored by one H. Ohtsuki —
Ohtsuki, H., & Iwasa, Y. (2004).
“How should we define goodness? –
Reputation dynamics in indirect reciprocity.”
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 231(1), 107-120.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.06.005
Related material: Ohtsuki’s CV , which contains references
to Harvard, Nowak, Evolutionary Dynamics, and (notably)
two separate lists of citations given to establish the fact that
Ohtsuki has a fairly low Erdős number — namely, 4.
Related material: The Erdős number of Ariana Grande.
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Sunday, November 15, 2020
Checkout at 11:23
Related material for comedians — last year’s 11/23
and Perlis in this journal.
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Saturday, October 24, 2020
Switchin’ the Positions*
“C24 is the list of codewords of the extended
binary Golay code C24. Each codeword is expressed
by a subset of the set M of the positions [1, . . . , 24]
of MOG.”
— From Shimada’s notes on computational data at
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shimada/
preprints/Edge/PaperEdge/compdataEdge.pdf .
* Related material — A new Ariana Grande video and . . .
a recent digital artwork, “Code Girl,” with accompanying story —
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