Energetics

You might be patiently enqueued waiting for the doors to open, the curtain to raise, on the Martian Math vista. Or you might be already on stage, putting on a show & tell.

The ETs were not interested in our contiguous landmass huge perimeter states except as addressing units in various memory (data management) grids, zip codes and postal area codes being good examples. The nesting is regionally specific with neither "county" nor "state" in the US Federation precisely matching "canton" in the sense the Swiss use it.

Matching their approach might be our "virtual nation" economies, which often get some support from a business class interested in promoting tourism. Outside the business associations you'll have random boosters in the journo- or even blogo- spheres. The long-running Jefferson State campaign is a good example.

In the shadow of a Civil War, the threat was one of "succession", but now that we have virtual states, and Disney World (global), the threat is existential in a different sense: the theater (cosplay) of nations becomes virtualized across the board, as we become aware of our social programming (where "become aware of" does not have to mean in some "rebellious" sense; we're social creatures).

Silicon Forest digital (as in discrete) Synergetics sets the contest for a synergy among our four loosely defined, not to mention overlapping, four categories: Supermarket, Casino, Martian, Neolithic. The ETs, fictive visitors to Earthling Planet, mingle with our own, if not physio-genetically (science fiction writers take it in different directions), at least by means of memes (physio-epigenetically) such as through educational programs.

The back and forth horizontal sweep of an X beam (CRT talk) is combined with a Y beam bearing signal. X is the ticktock of a reference frequency whereas Y is from a pulsing voltage input. At the neck of the tube, a cathode ray gun is thermally excited to radiate charged leptons with spin. 

Rastering the X beam back and forth reveals a waveform or, if it's a TV signal, such as NTSB, a full grayscale or color picture. Here we'd maybe reference Tractor Graphics using Python.

Once we have our magnetic field controlled beams and currents, we're ready to dive in. We have impedance, inductive and resistive. We have transmission lines and three-phase. Trigonometry (the so-called circular functions) are now front and center. 

So where's the Synergetics, outside the geometry of great circle spheres and their spin-poly networks? The VE and Icosa generate 25 and 31 great circles respectively, defining LCD triangles and secondary axes of spin.

I'm thinking at first in terms of visualizing energy amounts, in the sense of saved potential, battery power, in terms of growing and shrinking tetrahedrons, volume amounts. 

The water behind a dam and the pressure it exerts is compressive in nature, energy to be released at a specific rate relating to both volume of current and voltage. 

What's the pressure? One may have ridiculously high voltage pressures with only the tiniest of current flows, such as across the surface of a scope where the X-Y directed cathode ray will cause phosphorescence, thereby providing a visualization of what’s happening along some spectrum.

Gender Politics

I don’t advertise myself (“hang out a shingle”) as some expert on gender politics. I imagine the male-female polarity (a spectrum) shows up differently per subculture. As a geek, I had a front row seat on OSCONs, Pycons and like that, so I saw a sub sub section of a culture grappling with the issues, whether gender-related or not or, more likely, somewhat.

My thought this morning is that a female newly inducted into a hitherto male sanctum might feel singled out and teased, because female, and therefore at an unfair disadvantage. That may well be the case in some cases. In other scenarios, what the female hadn’t realized is how these males tease each other, as a part of their discipline around healing and thickening one another’s skins. 

Friends sometimes inflict insults on one another to harden and desensitize in ways that add to (shape) ones version of professionalism. Nothing personal, one might add (after what sounds to be some personal attack). Think of a martial arts dojo. What else is there to do besides play fight all day, on a good day. On bad days, one fights (slays whatever dragons) for real. I’m pro dragon by the way; a figure of speech.

Why am I thinking about such matters on a Thanksgiving morning? 

A pat answer might be that around holidays especially we tend to gravitate towards ritual roles, which in nuclear family terms in North America might mean it’s the dad that cuts the turkey while the mom probably did much of the preparation. Case in point: I’m planning to dress up in an Eurasian suit and tie, reflecting my breeding as an English gentleman at the Junior English School of Rome (just the one year there though — other times I was learning to be a savage).

Deviations from these stereotypes are not uncommon either though. Some dads really like cooking and do it all, with the mom having a signature dish responsibility. More recently, the nuclear family itself has permuted, permitting couples to be same-sex. Extended more molecular families are likewise hardly unknown.

However, I think a truer answer is I’ve been looking back on my own trajectory within the aforementioned geek culture, remembering Guido’s PyLadies campaign for example, and how we brushed with sexism many times in the conference world. 

My own focus was to fork off Greek mythology with the Python escaping to Nashville narrative, something I talk more about in my Cultagory Theory: Revectoring Psyons.

Also: just this morning I watched a YouTube narrating the life of Felix Klein, a German mathematician who married the granddaughter of Friedrich Hegel. Although the pictures are largely AI-generated, what stands out, in the old techie movies too, is how few women there are, as in none. Klein saw this as a problem and devoted energy to altering this status quo.

Peace on Earth

By Eric Ton

Fall Term Homework

PDX HQS, Asylum District

Seasonal Themes

The stores switch to Mithraic themes after Halloween, focusing on Saturnalia mixed with Biblical themes, and by Biblical I mean to include the BC parts. I'm thinking to focus on 

• "ornaments" (polyhedra), roping in the New Years Ball (which I presume will be the usual n-frequency icosa-sphere, but I should double check), and 
  
  
• Peace on Earth with ample use of the peace sign decal.

One of the torches I carry, meaning content I consider worth passing on to coming Gs, is that of Waterman Polyhedra. 

Steve Waterman and I were early collaborators on his conception of a sequence of polyhedrons of growing complexity, meaning of increasing numbers of verts and edges, as one goes more and more outward, increasing the radius. All the verts are IVM (CCP) balls, let's assume a nucleated packing. 

We employ a convex hull finding algorithm to maximize its roundedness (minimize convexity) to pick up all verts less than or max radius from the nuclear ball.

The Peace on Earth = Promised Land meme will be familiar to some of my readers as it pops up in these blogs pretty consistently.

I'm starting to look back on 2025 already, grateful for friends and fellow faculty I've crossed paths with.

Time Slice

Making Models

I've been reviewing my Cultural Engineering notebook, featuring Zoltar the homunculus, the potentially any-gender, genderless, dude or guy, with the worldly models and/or ways of thinking realistically about stuff. 

I link to my Cultagory Theory video towards the end of that Jupyter Notebook (not playable through Github however) something to dive into next, if exploring my specific tunnel system. 

You'll find Zoltar playing his actively inferring role (observing, responding) vs-a-vs Operation Popup also, the art gallery Flextegrity manifested around this time (October) six years ago.

We link Zoltar's plastic spherical enclosure to the OmniDirectional Halo of Synergetics, likewise spherical and meant to model the modeling process itself, as one of brain-transceiving mind, a metaphor based in the experience of ideas coming to us, fully formed sometimes, perhaps in a dream (perhaps in a daydream).

When imagining a spherical shell, one is likewise conceptualizing the "two sides of the same surface" convex outer side, vs concave inner side. Convexity mirrors a wider world out there (outer space), whereas concavity concentrates inward towards a central focus (perhaps an atom, perhaps a self).

Bracketing one's sphere-of-relevance (one's shell) are the adjacent Twilight Zones (Bucky sometimes uses that term) of the "tantalizingly relevant" (just out of reach), and what in retrospect we might call "low hanging fruit" once they're grasped and incorporated -- it's an ongoing process.