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Epistemic* Tetrads

"Those that can be obtained…." — Related music video: Waterloo. * "In defense of the epistemic view of quantum states: a toy theory," by Robert W. Spekkens, Perimeter Institute…

Traveling Salesmen

    Click the above image for the IMDb page from which it is taken. Peter J. Cameron today: "Course material associated with Jack Edmonds’ lectures can be…

For the Late Hermann Zapf*

  WW ZZ   * Zapf, a type designer, reportedly died on Thursday, June 4, 2015.

For the Late Vincent Bugliosi

Talent Scout

"Looking for what was, where it used to be" — Wallace Stevens

Colorful Song

For geeks* — " Domain, Domain on the Range , " where Domain = the Galois tesseract  and Range = the four-element Galois field. This post was suggested by the previous post,…

Princeton Flashback

From The Daily Princetonian  on May 29, 2015: "… well, isn’t that what Reunions is all about?   Making memories?" "Try to remember the kind of September …." From this …

Princeton Prize*

A box of Frosties for Joyce Carol Oates. Backstory:  Oxford Word (July 10, 2004) — a meditation on the date January 29 —   and that date here this year. * "Oates…

The Secret Life of the Public Mind

(Continued from May 25) Above: Scenes from "The Hard Problem" and "Fun Home."  

Lughnasa Note

See Burning Patrick. See as well Night of Lunacy.