Sunday, March 27, 2022
Imagine all the rock we don't see underneath.
— Lily on the Earth
Saturday, March 26, 2022
"Von Neumann devised cellular automata to make a reductionist point about the plausibility of life being in a world with very simple primaries," Toffoli explained. But even Von Neumann, who was a quantum physicist, neglected completely the connections with physics, that a cellular automata could be a model of fundamental physics. Perhaps, Toffoli conjectured, "the complex laws of physics might be rewritten in terms of automata. Might the strange realm of quantum physics be explained as a product of interactions between Von Neumann's mathematical machines, themselves obeying just a few rules."
— Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann
Friday, March 25, 2022
The miscalculations demonstrate that even in an age of electronic intercepts and analysis assisted by fast data collection, human relationships still matter in accurately assessing the morale of a country or military.
— The New York Times (part of an article that seems to have been taken off the web)
Thursday, March 24, 2022
“We know that in Israel what is temporary becomes permanent,” said Avichay Buaron
— Isabel Kershner, "Ukraine War Ignites Israeli Debate Over Purpose of a Jewish State," The New York Times
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Paper knows if you're in a rush.
— Daniel*
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
The crux of Morgenstern's argument was that any prediction would be acted on by businesses and by the general public, and their collective responses would invalidate it.
— Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann
Monday, March 21, 2022
I don't know what it is about commitment that's beautiful.
— Lex Fridman, "David Wolpe: Judaism | Lex Fridman Podcast #270"
Sunday, March 20, 2022
Today's Sunday right? Why's everybody running for. Just kick back and enjoy the song birds.
— Guy outside of Providence train station
Saturday, March 19, 2022
Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev said each new crew that travels to the station gets to choose its own style of flight suit, the AP report said. "It became our turn to pick a color. But in fact, we had accumulated a lot of yellow material so we needed to use it," he said. "So that's why we had to wear yellow."
— Dom Calicchio, "Russian cosmonauts wear Ukrainian colors in arrival at International Space Station," Fox News
Friday, March 18, 2022
And, my favourite, a question of almost scholastic profundity: what is the relationship between a great carver and a poor signature?
— Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes
Thursday, March 17, 2022
People who thought he was great so long as his fantasy coincided with theirs. But every time he pushed further—and he always pushed further—they became confused and resentful.
— Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Emilie Lemakis, Met Buttons, 2022
Each of the buttons reports a guard's years on staff at the @metmuseum and their hourly wage. via @nytimes
Each of the buttons reports a guard's years on staff at the @metmuseum and their hourly wage. via @nytimes
— @arthandlermag
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
My Vienna has thinned into other people's Vienna.
— Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes
Monday, March 14, 2022
"The Texas-based collector donated her collection of over 3,000 ceramic pieces to Syracuse, New York's Everson Museum of Art with an unusual condition: that the works will be used at the museum's new resturant."
— @eversonmuseum
Sunday, March 13, 2022
And that I should probably record... sit at his elbow with a notebook. I never did. It seemed formal and inappropriate. It also seemed greedy: that's a good rich story, I'll have that. Anyway, I liked the way that repetition wears things smooth.
— Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes
Saturday, March 12, 2022
Simon indexes, re-creates, photographs, and preserves these centerpieces, linking the grand theatrics of political deal-making and the globalization of world economies to the intricacies of botany and horticulture.
— Taryn Simon wall text for Paperwork and the Will of Capital, Press XI, 2015, Brooklyn Museum
Friday, March 11, 2022
If I do not do it myself it will not be mine.
— Grant on writing his book, via Ron Chernow, Grant
Thursday, March 10, 2022
Endurance lit by flares at night, a shot by Australian photographer Frank Hurley, ca. 1915.
— @publicdomainrev
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Per Liga.Life, Elena was most concerned with correcting claims that the pickled vegetables were cucumbers. She said they were actually tomatoes with plums. "I don't know where the fables about cucumbers came from," she said.
— Mia Jankowicz, "A grandma in Kyiv says she took out a suspicious drone while Russia was attacking by throwing a jar of pickled tomatoes at it," Yahoo! News
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
We see as we are told.
— Ingrid Schaffner, “Wall Text,” What Makes a Great Exhibition, via Orit Gat, "Could Reading Be Looking?"