Monday, December 2, 2024
In the Night Kitchen: Fry Cook
From Fry’s obituary in The Guardian :
“ Though less of a public theorist than Eliot, Fry still believed passionately
in the validity of poetic drama. As he wrote in the magazine Adam :
‘In prose, we convey the eccentricity of things, in poetry their concentricity,
the sense of relationship between them: a belief that all things express
the same identity and are all contained in one discipline of revelation.' ”
Janet Leigh in "Harper" (1966)
Sunday, December 1, 2024
Saturday, November 30, 2024
Our Haptic Future?
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“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 |
Friday, November 29, 2024
Black Friday for Emma Watson
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." —
Revelado: A Drama for Coppola
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.
A Song for Heinlein
Just uphill from Robert A. Heinlein's former home in Laurel Canyon —
♫ "Slow down, you move too fast . . ."
See also a related aerial view —
A song for the Academy —
♫ In those big city nights
In those high rolling hills
Above all the lights
With a passion that kills
Entities for an AI Overview
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"
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Thanksgiving Koan for Red One
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:
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ELF's Bounty
"Down under Manhattan Bridge Overpass, |
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
For the Still Point: “Congregated Light”
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."
Hoarding Space*
The domain bitcube.space has now been renewed for another year.
It leads to — among other things — the following remarks . . .
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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.
For the Umbrella Academy, a Meditation on Turning 25:
New Dog, Old Tricks
Hometown newspaper on the day I turned 25 —
A Sequel for Rubik: Turning 27 —
Related meditations: Turning.
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Annals of Surreality — “Literate Programming” Continued
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.
Annals of Surreality: “Other Intelligent Beings”
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."
Annals of Surreality:
Good News for KylieTastic!
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.
Monday, November 25, 2024
Moving Forward . . .
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."
Longfellow vs. Snark
"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 —
From a Word-Wizard: Into the Claremont Woods
"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.
A Swan Boat for Wiig
"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 . . .
For a Blackboard Jungle: Bridget Variations
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 —
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Annals of Mathematics:
Michael Harris on AI (and Vice Versa)
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.
“Electric Dreams”
The posts in the Log24 search
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Electric+Dreams"
suggest a look at . . .
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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!" —
Saturday, November 23, 2024
The Dreidel Metadata
Αἰὼν παῖς ἐστι παίζων, πεττεύων·
παιδὸς ἡ βασιληίη
The Dreidel Metadata —
Also on the above Brumleve Dreidel YouTube date, in this journal —
The Square Aspect (vs. Stevens’s “Radial* Aspect”)
"New horizons open up." — New York Times, Nov. 21, 1924.
A search for some such 96-square division yields . . .
https://www.atariuptodate.de/img/kidshapes.png —
"Here's to efficient packing."
* See as well radial vs. square aspects in a post on Mackey's classic
Harmonic Analysis as the Exploitation of Symmetry.
The Radial Aspect
Google Doodle on Thursday, November 21, 2024 —
From the Wallace Stevens poem
"An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" —
XIX
The moon rose in the mind and each thing there
Picked up its radial aspect in the night,
Prostrate below the singleness of its will.
That which was public green turned private gray.
At another time, the radial aspect came
From a different source. But there was always one:
A century in which everything was part
Of that century and of its aspect, a personage,
A man who was the axis of his time,
An image that begot its infantines,
Imaginary poles whose intelligence
Streamed over chaos their civilities.
What is the radial aspect of this place,
This present colony of a colony
Of colonies, a sense in the changing sense
Of things? A figure like Ecclesiast,
Rugged and luminous, chants in the dark
A text that is an answer, although obscure.
A Chant in the Dark —
Friday, November 22, 2024
A Thumbnail for Deresiewicz* — “11:07 Tue. November 19”
The above "gone" line is spoken at 0:43:45
by Sofia Falcone to Triad leader Feng Zhao.
* Vide today's previous post.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
The Fenstermacher Manifesto
For Glinda in "Wicked" —
"The circle of light is yours." — Facebook post by Fenstermacher
on July 4, 2024, followed on July 6 by Velvet Underground's
"Sunday Morning."
For "Gladiator II" … This journal on the above Velvet Underground date —
Six-Set Geometry and Witt Designs
From other posts tagged Six-Set —
The six-set also underlies the 21-point projective plane PG(2,4) —
PG(2,4) may be used to construct S(5,8,24), also known as
the large Witt design. Some related research . . .
On four codes with automorphism group PΣL(3,4)
and pseudo-embeddings of the large Witt designs,
by Bart De Bruyn (UGent) and Mou Gao (UGent),
(2020) DESIGNS CODES AND CRYPTOGRAPHY. 88(2), pp. 429-452.
Some background reading —
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Chevron Space
I prefer a different chevron space . . .
Thursday, September 8, 2022 —
“Great Unconscious Gravity” *
"Right through hell there is a path" — Malcolm Lowry
An illustration from a post of April 13, 2009 —
That date was suggested by . . .
The "Amen Corner" tune was suggested by the life of
a Bee Gees drummer who died recently, by the title of
a book he wrote — You Should Be Dancing — and by
a scene (S1E2) in the Max miniseries "The Penguin" —
"Shit like this, the pain of it, you gotta be careful…
'cause it'll eat you alive if you let it.
It's a helluva lot more fun to dance."
* Phrase from a passage by Chesterton that led, in a
post of April 13, 2009, to the above image of Reba.
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Featured
A Facebook post from this afternoon . . .
Log Cabin Republicans may prefer the SNL snark of . . .
See a post of December 4, 2011 — Code Wars.
For Log Cabin Republicans: Life of Brian
The update to this morning's "Skin in the Game" post suggests . . .
See also Michael York's "The Omega Code."
I prefer my own version of that title.
A Mosaic for Megiddo
Skin in the Game: Real or Fake?
"Here was finality indeed, and cleavage!"
— Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
Update of 1:28 PM ET on November 19, 2024 —
"The decadent legacy of Berlin between the World Wars,
and that of the American speak-easy era, have left their marks
on fashion, of course. At the Golden Globes on Sunday night,
Nicole Kidman incarnated the steamy eroticism of the Weimar
years in a clingy 20's-style gold-spangled dress by Tom Ford for
YSL Rive Gauche. Ms. Kidman's illusion top, with its suggestion
of nudity, set tongues wagging well into the next day."
— By Ruth La Ferla, The New York Times, Jan. 27, 2004
Baptismal Font: Times New Roman
Click the Dies Natalis metadata for supplemental reading.
Monday, November 18, 2024
The Purloined Letter*
See as well . . .
* Q.V. — " 'There is a game of puzzles,' he resumed, 'which is
played upon a map. One party playing requires another to find
a given word — the name of town, river, state, or empire —
any word, in short, upon the motley and perplexed
surface of the chart.' " — Edgar Allan Poe
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Annals of Meritocracy: Location, Location, Location
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Sunday, November 17, 2024
A Belgian’s Balcony Scene
241117-Browsing-history-Audrey_Hepburn-Moonlight_Balcony_Scene-context.jpg
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The Belgian Music Box
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Weyl, Symmetry, and the MOG
(HTML version of an earlier post)
Some historical background for a new book by Robert T. Curtis,
The Art of Working with the Mathieu Group M24 —
"Space is another example of an entity endowed with a structure.
Here the elements are points, and the structure is established
in terms of certain basic relations between points such as:
A, B, C lie on a straight line, AB is congruent CD, and the like.
What we learn from our whole discussion and what has indeed
become a guiding principle in modern mathematics is this lesson:
Whenever you have to do with a structure endowed entity Σ
try to determine its group of automorphisms, the group of those
element-wise transformations which leave all structural relations
undisturbed. You can expect to gain a deep insight into the
constitution of Σ in this way. After that you may start to investigate
symmetric configurations of elements, i.e. configurations which are
invariant under a certain subgroup of the group of all automorphisms;
and it may be advisable, before looking for such configurations,
to study the subgroups themselves, e.g. the subgroup of those
automorphisms which leave one element fixed, or leave two distinct
elements fixed, and investigate what discontinuous or finite subgroups
there exist, and so forth."
— Hermann Weyl, Symmetry, Princeton University Press, 1952.
(Page 144 in the Princeton Science Library edition of 1989.)
This square's automorphism group
has 322,560 transformations.
— The diamond theorem of Steven H. Cullinane.
This rectangle's automorphism group
has 244,823,040 transformations.
— The Miracle Octad Generator (MOG) of Robert T. Curtis.
The rectangle's automorphism group contains the
square's as a subgroup. The square's automorphism
group leaves invariant a set of 30 eight-subsquare sets
called affine hyperplanes. The rectangle's automorphism
group leaves invariant a set of 759 eight-subsquare sets
called octads.
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(HTML version of an earlier post)
(HTML version of an earlier post)
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Analytic Continuation: The Kayak Thief
From a post of 7 AM November 15 —
Related art —
" I just like saying 'intake manifold.' " — Emma Watson
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MORA for Lucy (A Memorable Watson)
Another interesting role for Liu — Head of MORA . . .
As for Mythological Oversight and Restoration . . .
Kaleidoscope, continued (August 11, 2005).
Related mythological material from August 11, 2005 —
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Automorphism Groups: Examples for Weyl
Keywords: Weyl, symmetry, group, automorphism,
octad, MOG, Curtis, Cullinane.
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Friday, November 15, 2024
Art Tales
From a search in this journal for Arkani-Hamed —
This post was suggested by the title
"Visualizing a sacred city: London, art, and religion"
from today's 7 AM post.
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Art for Stephen King: The Swirling
Related cinematic art … the 2022 TV series "The Resort"
and the 2022 film "Stars at Noon."
"Swirls of red radiate a symphony of joy, love, and passion,
inviting observers to delve into the depth of human emotions."
— Marcela Nowak at Medium.com, August 12, 2023.
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Art Identity Migration
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Thursday, November 14, 2024
Mimesis: The Auerbach Variations
Vide an Auerbach Bacchus and Ariadne .
As damned nightmares go, I prefer a more literary Auerbach.
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A Certain Character
"What we do may be small, but it has
a certain character of permanence."
— G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Sigma Sweethearts
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For Those Who Like to Watch
Kiernan Shipka in "Swimming with Sharks."
"Get in the pool!" — Indiana Jones, "The Dial of Destiny."
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Group Theory: The Romance of Alias and Alibi*
Alias:
Victor at 194 Tower Avenue in "The Penguin"
Alibi:
Marcela_234 at Likewise.com
Romance in Numberland:
* Technical terms from pure mathematics —
For scholia on "the cube is being moved around," vide . . .
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s="Stack+Exchange" .
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Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Poster Art
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Color Tray
Image credit: The singer of "Deep Blue," Sara Arlene,
in a Facebook story of November 12, 2024.
"Swirls of red radiate a symphony of joy, love, and passion,
inviting observers to delve into the depth of human emotions."
— Marcela Nowak at Medium.com, August 12, 2023.
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Snow White . . . Bachelorette
For the Duke of York's Theatre —
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The Cornfield Paradox . . . Continues.
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Marrific Repost
https://www.tiktok.com/@_moon_fire/video/7415613178983353632 .
Update —
The piñata scene in the above "moon fire" video suggests a search
for today's birthdays that yields one "Moonlight Graham" —
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St. Beryl’s Day
Beryl Bainbridge, author of the novel An Awfully Big Adventure ,
reportedly died in England on Friday,* July 2, 2010. See that date
in this journal.
Related entertainment —
* The New York Times says she died on Thursday, July 1, 2010.
The discrepancy in these reports may be due to the transatlantic
time difference.
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Monday, November 11, 2024
Echo Chamber: “The Room Outside of Time”*
"… as Gombrich well knew, Warburg also
constantly regrets the 'loss' of this 'thought-space' …"
Echo from the Pasaje Bella Vista in Cuernavaca —
“We keep coming back and coming back
To the real: to the hotel instead of the hymns….”
— Wallace Stevens
— Postcard from eBay
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From Under the Volcano, by Malcolm Lowry, 1947, Chapter I:
Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall —
Shaken, M. Laruelle replaced the book on the table… he reached to the floor for a folded sheet of paper that had fluttered out of it. He picked the paper up between two fingers and unfolded it, turning it over. Hotel Bella Vista, he read. There were really two sheets of uncommonly thin hotel notepaper…. I sit now in a little room off the bar at four-thirty in the morning drinking ochas and then mescal and writing this on some Bella Vista notepaper I filched the other night…. But this is worst of all, to feel your soul dying. I wonder if it is because to-night my soul has really died that I feel at the moment something like peace. Or is it because right through hell there is a path, as Blake well knew, and though I may not take it, sometimes lately in dreams I have been able to see it? …And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell. It is not Mexico of course but in the heart. |
* "The room outside of time" is a recurring theme in "The Resort."
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The Ukulele Lesson
1037
01:25:41,200 –> 01:25:43,200
I'm beginning to get
the hang of fucking.
1038
01:25:46,200 –> 01:25:47,700
Yes.
1039
01:25:50,200 –> 01:25:53,800
It's no different from learning
to play the ukulele.
1040
01:25:53,900 –> 01:25:55,800
You just need practice.
Further details at . . .
http://www.littlereview.com/getcritical/greenman/peterpan.htm .
Update (November 11, 2024 @ 23:30:59) —
Also on August 6, 2023 … Metaphysics Lesson.
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Sunday, November 10, 2024
Numberland: The Talladega Craftsman
Monday, October 17, 2011
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From Summer Solstice 2023 —
Related tunes — "Hot Rod Lincoln" and
"Junk in the Trunk" (Planet Booty, YouTube, Feb. 27, 2019)
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Saturday, November 9, 2024
Invariance: The Seventh Footnote
"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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Friday, November 8, 2024
AI on Aion
For a less artificial approach . . . See "Aion" in this journal.
Related reading: Halloween night's "Trick and Treat."
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AI Love Song: “Evercross”
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Fake News — News about Fakes
The date of the above post was apparently the date of death
for a noted architectural historian. Related material —
"The almond tree flourisheth" — Ecclesiastes … and …
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Thursday, November 7, 2024
“Best Position” . . . Babygirl.
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Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Minding the Gap: A Surrealist’s Dies Natalis
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Cleft
Some uploads to Log24.com/log/pix24/ on the Fifth of November 2024 —
241105-Allegheny_Hotel-at-Glade_Bridge-1895.jpg
241105-F.O.E.-Warren-PA-metadata.jpg
241105-F.O.E.-Warren-PA-Google-maps-bus-at-former-Allegheny_Hotel.jpg
241104-Shipman's_Eddy-hillside-cleft-wildfire-site-Nov-4-2024.jpg
Earlier . . .
Related — The previous post and Commentaries on Hexagram 43.
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Stage and Screen
. . . and the screen to . . . "Grace Penn?"
Related material . . .
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Monday, November 4, 2024
Alternative to the new film “Here” —
THERE!
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THERE!
THERE!
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Today’s Science Sermon
"Before time began . . ." — Optimus Prime
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Saturday, November 2, 2024
For Julia Cicero: Ex Fano Apollinis
Cicero, In Verrem II. 1. 46 —
He reached Delos. There one night he secretly 46 carried off, from the much-revered sanctuary of Apollo, several ancient and beautiful statues, and had them put on board his own transport. Next day, when the inhabitants of Delos saw their sanc- tuary stripped of its treasures, they were much distressed . . . .
Delum venit. Ibi ex fano Apollinis religiosissimo noctu clam sustulit signa pulcherrima atque anti- quissima, eaque in onerariam navem suam conicienda curavit. Postridie cum fanum spoliatum viderent ii
See also "Ex Fano" in this journal.
For more crazed gravitas, vide . . .
Addendum:
The above New Yorker passage is dated Sept. 26, 2024.
Also on that date . . .
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The Art Racket
Art for today — All Souls' Day, also known as the Day of the Dead —
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The Hellman-McCarthy Vocabulary Lesson
Related art notes —
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Technology Entertainment: “Icon Parking”
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Friday, November 1, 2024
The Aida Recode: Volano al raggio dell’eterno dì
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Los Angeles
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Thursday, October 31, 2024
Trick and Treat
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“… ego ipse oculis meis …” — Petronius, Satyricon*
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“Some events may require registration.”
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♫ “It’s such an ancient pitch . . .”
— The Great American Songbook
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— The Great American Songbook
— The Great American Songbook
Comedy for Packers
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Touching Base . . . and Minding the Gap
(The annotated page above is not in the cited source.)
"Sunshine on my shoulders . . ."
— Soundtrack for Instagram story
posted by cmellevold 18 hours ago
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Gold Search
Scholia —
http://m759.net/wordpress/?s=" Tree"+"Stone" .
"We should definitely touch base moving forward."
— "Sweethearts" (2024)
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Cube Design Software Example
A first try at using websim.ai as an approach to building a model
of The Diamond Cube for use in later programs. AI in its current state
seems much more helpful in programming than in web seach.
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♫ “For 10 years we’ve been on our own . . .”
Norman Lear in Spectral Form ! —
Related civic engagement —
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Harvard Hell
From October 29, 2006 —
"Noi siam venuti al loco ov' i' t'ho detto
che tu vedrai le genti dolorose
c'hanno perduto il ben de l'intelletto."
"We have come to where
I warned you we would find
Those wretched souls
who no longer have
The intellectual benefits of the mind."
From a Harvard student's weblog:
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Heard in Mather I hope you get gingivitis You want me to get oral cancer?! Goodnight fartface Turd. Turd. Turd. Turd. Turd. Make your own waffles!! Blah blah blah starcraft blah blah starcraft blah starcraft. It's da email da email. And some blue hair! Oohoohoo Izod! 10 gigs! Yeah it smells really bad. Only in the stairs though. Starcraft blah blah Starcraft fartface. Yeah it's hard. You have to get a bunch of battle cruisers. 40 kills! So good! Oh ho ho grunt grunt squeal. I'm getting sick again. You have a final tomorrow? In What?! Um I don't even know. Next year we're draggin him there and sticking the needle in ourselves. " … one more line/ unravelling from the dark design/ spun by God and Cotton Mather" — Robert Lowell |
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Variation on an AI Hallucination
For another variation on this hallucination, see the previous post.
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Hallucinated Geometry
For fans of the "story theory of truth" —
An example of artificial stupidity:
The phrases "midpoints of opposite faces" and "essentially
creating a smaller cube" are hallucinated bullshit.
The above AI description was created by inanely parroting
verbiage from the Wikipedia article "Diamond cubic" —
which it credits as a source. (See wider view of search.)
That article contains neither the word "theorem" nor the
phrase "unit cube " from the search-request prompt.
AI, like humans, is likely to fall victim to the notorious
"story theory of truth" purveyed by Richard J. Trudeau.
A real "diamond shape formed within a unit cube" is the
octahedron, one of the five classical Platonic solids.
Fans of the opposing "diamond theory of truth" rejected by
Trudeau may prefer . . .
(Log24, July 1, 2019).
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Diamond Theorem Unit Cube Design
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