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Inspiration in abstract science, metric spaces of metric spaces and stability of numerical algorithms

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Two revelations from yesterday. First, my anonymous friend M (don’t want them to get pestered with inquiries yet) gave me a draft of a novel so delightfully full of cool ideas that I could not reading even as I was driven along a serpentine mountain road. The revelation, apart from the obvious conviction of their genius, was that my stomach could not handle it and I felt like hurling the contents of a fine dinner over the beautiful scenery. Though really I should have known that from experience. Sidepoint: we are watching DEVS nos, which apart from hammering metaphors in with a sledgehammer, is not bad.

Nick gets it.

Second was that I kept thinking about a friendly interrogation that Stephen Yang of this post conducted on me, asking me to what extent we incorporate the real world experience in abstract science, or whether we are completely removed from it. (I also invited him to Jerusalem almost immediately, looking forward to your visit!)

I had two immediate answers for him: One is indirect, in that nature (in the sense of everything not inside the mind, so maybe the outside world would be a better term), at least for me, acts as cleaning current, flushing out the noise of repetitive thoughts that accumulate in creative thinking by overwhelming the senses.

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Just an appreciation of art: Stephen Yang add Alef’s Corner

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Three artist friends I wanted to appreciate here. I lack the words of a smarter (wo)man, so I will let the images and links speak for themselves. First Stephen Yang who makes me impatient for my travel to the east coast. Most of his photographs depict the miracle that is New York (though he also captured Henry Kissinger and Tahrir Square), although the city being the city, it could just be any part of the world and none at the same time.

J’Ouvert celebrations in Brooklyn

Second, there is a secret friend of mine who is more shy about his identity. Depicting another friend of mine who is not so secret about his identity.