'“Yes / no” or “plus / minus” judgments are anachronistic and ineffective. The only form of judgment that still functions … is “one / zero” criticism; the judgment lies in the decision to write about an artist or show, or not.' fillip.ca/content/a-ta... OK but presence/absence isn't the same as 1/0

Seen today in Dublin Monstrous Male Figure, Caliban? 1770s, John Hamilton Mortimer Mortimer's "other [1770s monster] drawings show [the creatures] engaged in violent struggles. This delicate image in chalk and pencil is more in the nature of a character study." www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...

When someone is said to "benefit from and thereby perpetuate" a state of affairs as if the first thing implied the second 🙄 Just complete hogwash

On nerds: 'In the revised version, there was … a moment of disintegration before the pieces of the rocket flew off and there was nothing left. It was very dramatic and beautiful. I told him so. He found the compliment difficult to accept. The change … “only made it look better. It’s nothing new.”'

"Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities." (Lord Dunsany, My Ireland, XIX, 1938.) dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Somehow I'm guessing that the unexpected use of the word "intensify" in the name of Dolmio Intensify is the best (only real?) new thing about it www.dolmio.ie/products/coo...

"The value of having all children achieve mastery brings into question our general view of success. … grades would become much less varied. … Universities would have to make selections from a pool of applicants with similar grades." Oh no, the humanity en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastery...

Volume 1. Foods of the World, 2014-22 Mungo Thomson

This is just great, I think youtu.be/9n9hcdohtpY?...

Disjunction elimination is one of those things that is ultimately sort of obvious (far more obvious that LEM or bivalence) and learning it is part of getting enculturated into formal logic. Much PLT is premised on the idea that stealing patterns from academic logic will lead to programming paradise.

Rick Amor Afternoon by the Sea, 2005 www.deutscherandhackett.com/auction/6-fi...

A 16-byte demo hellmood.111mb.de//wake_up_16b...

I've got a new piece of kitchen equipment, and some lemons, and will attempt to make around ⅕ of this sorbet recipe on Friday.

"A person who has or possesses a theory knows how to do certain things and in addition can support the actual doing with explanations, justifications, and answers to queries, about the activity of concern." (Peter Naur, Programming as Theory Building, 1985) pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur....

Bruce Karsh: A good way to estimate an average angle, A, from a set of angle measurements a[i] 0<=i<N, is: sum_i_from_1_to_N sin(a[i]) A = atan --------------------------- sum_i_from_1_to_N cos(a[i]) catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/7.44.h...

"Do not believe any recipe that calls itself Turkish Delight Ice and uses bought, chopped, Turkish delight to be stirred into a basic vanilla ice. It does not work. Freezing hardens the Turkish delight into what can only be described as car-tyre rubber. Inedible!"

Apparently the problem in America is the advent of a time "when you cannot monetise integrity, when the idea of being a good person doesn’t actually make you money" Right, right, the idea of being a good person has got to be worth something www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

'Morioka Shoten is a tiny bookstore of “a Single Room with a Single Book” in Tokyo. It sells only one book; more precisely, multiple copies of one title that changes weekly' I would like to hear about practical difficulties with this model. (It's still going, though.) www.takram.com/projects/a-s...

"We have no special pride about our past in Belgium. Yes, at school we learn that Julius Caesar wrote that Belgians were the fiercest people in the Gaul." To say this in 2017 and not mention atrocities in the Congo Free State seems thoughtless. An editor should have questioned "no special pride".

Napier's first published logarithms were tabulated values for something equivalent to log(sin(θ)) for 0° < θ < 90°. Why? The application was spherical trigonometry, which was mostly computational and involved frequent multiplication of sines and cosines.

Describing a work of art as “didactic” has become a way of writing it off. But works such as HBO’s “The Pitt” push us to reconsider the merits of trying to teach. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

'“I’m sure it will be a jet,” said Roger. “Propeller planes are almost entirely out of date, after all. On the other hand, rocket engines are still experimental.“' If all stories were written like science fiction stories: web.archive.org/web/20080715...

Hands up if you don't vape, gamble or find sex "automatically" by using apps. I guess the author hoped they could unite the severely fragmented US audience by appealing to shared experiences.

Paul Strand Parmesan, Luzzara (1953)

I can’t think of a better way to pay tribute to the memory of Douglas Richardson than to post some photos of the Victorian architecture he so loved. I’ll start with a building he once described to me as “unutterably lovely”: the Oxford Museum, by Deane & Woodward, built 1855-60.

The nominally Irish model train manufacturer Accurascale does a model of the second Deltic locomotive, which rejoiced in the name "St. Paddy" (it came from a racehorse). www.accurascale.com/products/550...

The code is a mess, but here's my remake of Ken Perlin's VPuff on @observablehq.com. The advantage of using a reactive notebook is that the many parameters of the applet can be hooked up to controls very easily. Of course I haven't actually done that yet... observablehq.com/d/64d440b67e...

The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort."

Post by Ingo Giezendanner on Mastodon mastodon.social/@pfrrrrt/116...

Oh, you want to go to the actual USPS tracking page? It’s going to take 17 clicks. You’re sure you don’t want to just stay here on the company website? Where we mark your order status as Get Ready for This Jelly, Something Epic This Way Comes, and Boom Shakalaka?

Subtweeting a pre-print that disses the Gregorian calendar (for its irrationality?). In my book, (ethno-)mathematical techniques that ingeniously cope with irregular rituals are where the action is. The choice of calender is a matter of politics and power. e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsda...

Fontainebleau, chemin sablonneux montant Gustave Le Gray French ca. 1856 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Hearing this book's title in the voice of Montgomery Burns www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/lauri...

A bishop called Franckenstein, in the Frankfurter Dom

The Dreieinigkeitskirche in Regensburg.

I worked in software around 2000 and was the guy who'd interact with a counterparty and detect an anomaly in their language. In two cases I was right and we had a problem: 1. They were fragmenting IP packets; we had to scramble to support reassembly. 2. They weren't going to launch the new hardware.

What do purists dislike above all else? When something is remade

In London, there's a way to quickly tell whether a gallery is out of touch. The ones that are reasonably on the ball make sure every website visitor knows their exhibitions are free. Art orgs that don't do this (or charge for admission) come across as elitist and uninterested in broadening access.

It must really be a surprise to encounter this aircraft in a room that is too narrow for its wingspan. youtu.be/M8LAOwr8sa0 The odd proportions of the room are down to its original role as a railway station concourse.

I'm almost expecting that the way the trail "rewards an unhurried approach" is gamified via the app. This thing seems like a real display of uncritical adoption of what the creators fancy to be the marketing methods of the day. You even have to pay for some of the options!

I'm delighted to announce the forensic recovery of the original single-stroke font data from Vib-Ribbon (1999) — exhumed from Playstation ROMs — and now part of my archive of procedural skeleton fonts for #p5js: github.com/golanlevin/p... #mediaArchaeology #typography #plotterArt #creativeCoding

This building, the Nassauer Haus in Nuremberg, is exactly aligned with the cardinal directions, which means that the two painted sundials on the walls are simple (and not "declining" as they would be in the general case).

You can't describe a person as ambient

Is it using the Sociological Imagination to interpret Starmer's mediocrity as a social symptom rather a personal failing

I've been posting about Connection Machine routing over on Mastodon. Here's an animation of how an all-to-all exchange of messages worked, using n non-conflicting Hamiltonian paths (derived from Gray codes). The real CM-2 machine had n = 12; here n = 4 for clarity openprocessing.org/@u210199/293...

My new thing is whittling down character count in quotes (to fit in social media posts) using "…" (one glyph) instead of "[...]" (five) for elisions

"A striking feature of this book is its loose organization. By the end, the reader almost feels that the chapters and sections could be rearranged randomly, without altering the book’s character." I want to know what the reader felt while this impression was being created in the course of the book!

The idea that firearm use was part of the Civilising Process, a 'seriös' activity. Priya Satia's Empire of Guns says something similar, though her point is that the form of violence that guns produced was more impersonal.

Odd temporal aspect to this headline: "My first thought after having a vasectomy: why aren’t more … men having them?". As if at the precise moment the operation itself went off painlessly, all worries vanished? Why? Is this what linguistics calls an 'achievement' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...