posts tagged ‘mathematics’
Lo Sublime
29 March 2011 • out of context
tags: books, cinema, mathematics, perception, pleasure, quotes
“Kant distinguía dos especies de Sublime, matemático y dinámico, lo inmenso y lo poderoso, lo desmesurado y lo informe. Ambas tenían la propiedad de deshacer la composición orgánica, una desbordándola, la otra quebrándola. En lo sublime matemático, la unidad de medida extensiva cambia tanto que la imaginación ya no logra comprenderla, choca con su propio límite, se anonada, pero da lugar a una facultad pensante que nos fuerza a concebir lo inmenso o lo desmesurado como todo. En lo sublime dinámico, es la intensidad la que se eleva a una potencia tal que ciega o aniquila nuestro ser orgánico, lo deja aterrorizado, pero suscita una facultad pensante por la cual nos sentimos superiores a aquello que nos aniquila, para descubrir en nosotros un espíritu supraorgánico que domina toda la vida inorgánica de las cosas: entonces ya no tenemos miedo, pues sabemos que nuestra «destinación» espiritual es lisa y llanamente invencible”.
La imagen-movimiento
Gilles Deleuze
Ediciones Paidós
Fuzzy logic
5 March 2011 • out of context
tags: mathematics, meaning, perception, quotes, truth, uncertainty
“Fuzzy logic is a form of many-valued logic derived from fuzzy set theory to deal with reasoning that is fluid or approximate rather than fixed and exact. In contrast with “crisp logic”, where binary sets have two-valued logic, fuzzy logic variables may have a truth value that ranges in degree between 0 and 1. In simple words we can say fuzzy logic is a super set of conventional (boolean) logic that has been extended to handle the concept of partial truth–the truth values between completely true and completely false.”
Watchings
24 October 2010 • watchings
tags: animals, brain, cinema, comedy, conscience, death, documentaries, drugs, fantasy, fiction, hallucinations, killers, love, mathematics, murder, music, nature, particles, perception, politics, science, sound, space, television, time, tv series
• Fringe, Seasons 1-2 (2008-2010)
J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci
• Человек с киноаппаратом / Man with a Movie Camera (1929) [watch]
Dziga Vertov
• Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
• The Ghost Writer (2010)
Roman Polanski
• El Abecedario de Gilles Deleuze. A de Animal (1988) [watch]
• Some Like It Hot (1959)
Billy Wilder
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Sidney Lumet
Arithmomania
3 October 2010 • out of context
tags: brain, mathematics, patterns, science, television, vampires
Arithmomania is a mental disorder that may be seen as an expression of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Sufferers from this disorder have a strong need to count their actions or objects in their surroundings.
Sufferers may for instance feel compelled to count the steps while ascending or descending a flight of stairs or to count the number of letters in words. They often feel it is necessary to perform an action a certain number of times to prevent alleged calamities. Other examples include counting tiles on the floor or ceiling, the number of lines on the highway, or simply the number of times one breathes or blinks.
Arithmomania sometimes develops into a complex system in which the sufferer assigns values or numbers to people, objects and events in order to deduce their coherence.
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Folklore concerning vampires often depicts them with arithmomania, such as a compulsion to count seeds or grains of rice. More lightheartedly, the muppet Count von Count from Sesame Street appears to be a fellow “sufferer”.
Listenings
18 August 2010 • listenings
tags: mathematics, minimal, music, noise, radio, sound, techno
• Time Frost (2007)
Rapoon
• Ret Marut Handshake (2010)
anbb
• Textstar (2010)
Farben
• Bioroid (2007)
Silicon Scally
• Omega (2010)
Robert Hood
• COMPOSING WITH PROCESS: PERSPECTIVES ON GENERATIVE AND SYSTEMS MUSIC #1. Continue (2010) [listen]
Ràdio Web Macba
Never sure
3 February 2010 • out of context
tags: error, mathematics, quotes, science, truth
“There is no more greater error in science than to believe that just because some mathematical calculation has been completed some aspect of nature is certain.”
Alfred North Whitehead
Outlier
30 October 2009 • out of context
tags: data, mathematics
In statistics, an outlier is an observation that is numerically distant from the rest of the data. Grubbs defined an outlier as:
“An outlying observation, or outlier, is one that appears to deviate markedly from other members of the sample in which it occurs.”
Wikipedia