Books by George Steiner at
https://openroadmedia.com/contributor/george-steiner —
Related language —
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Wechsler Puzzle
Comments Off on Wechsler Puzzle
Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Magic Mountain Dramarama
Act purposefully! Think rationally!
Play IT as IT lays!
Related Reading —
Comments Off on Magic Mountain Dramarama
Understanding Media
Likewise.com is now pix-media.com.
Adapted song lyric for Pennywise fans . . .
♫ "Floating . . . takes me away to where I'm going . . . ."
For a different, but not unrelated, Bellevue, see
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and WAIS Blocks.
Comments Off on Understanding Media
Monday, October 14, 2024
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Continuity vs. Change
More recently . . .
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/
us/politics/trump-biden-election.html —
Comments Off on Continuity vs. Change
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Thursday, February 10, 2022
“Kimi, Siri. Siri, Kimi.”
From "Siri + Wechsler" in this journal —
|
For Little Man Tate —
Related material — Wechsler in this journal and
Mark and Lucille, Bill and Violet, Al and Regina,
|
Related material —
Comments Off on “Kimi, Siri. Siri, Kimi.”
Block Design Subtest:
Psycoloquy Meets Psycho Loki
Related illustration from a search in this journal for Wechsler —
|
|
Above: Dr. Harrison Pope, Harvard professor of psychiatry,
demonstrates the use of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
“block design” subtest.
— From a Log24 search for “Harrison Pope.”
Comments Off on Block Design Subtest:
Psycoloquy Meets Psycho Loki
Psycoloquy Meets Psycho Loki
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
In Search of Hauora
Compare and contrast with —
|
|
|
|
|
|
Related material: Mel Bochner and Carnegie-Mellon.
Alfred Bester fans may also enjoy more
damned confusion from Dan Brown —
(Not to be confused with Gully Foyle .)
Comments Off on In Search of Hauora
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
“Kinda Remember the Kind of September . . .”
This afternoon's online New York Times reports a July 9
death at a memory-care facility —
Requiem for a Wechsler —
"Lighting for the Met is particularly challenging because —
unlike on Broadway, for instance — the shows change
on a weekly or even daily basis. One of Mr. Wechsler’s
accomplishments, Mr. Sardo said, was to develop
accurate records of the lighting schemes for each production,
so that one show could be swapped for another more efficiently.
“Before Gil was involved, there were no reference manuals as to
how that should be done,” Mr. Sardo said.
“Someone kinda remembered how the lighting was supposed to be.”
— Neil Genzlinger
Comments Off on “Kinda Remember the Kind of September . . .”
Saturday, December 12, 2020
Globe Services
“Perhaps only Shakespeare manages to create at the highest level
both images and people; and even Hamlet looks second-rate
compared with Lear .”
— Iris Murdoch, “Against Dryness,” 1961
Byline from a 2019 post — ‘GLOBE STAFF AND NEW SERVICES’ —
|
|
Above: Dr. Harrison Pope, Harvard professor of psychiatry,
demonstrates the use of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
“block design” subtest.
— From a Log24 search for “Harrison Pope.”
Related drama — Other posts tagged Plastic Elements.
Comments Off on Globe Services
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Interconnecting the Meaning Fragments
"Meaning fragments" is a phrase from the previous post.
See Wechsler in this journal.
Related material —
"the liberation of the plastic elements."
Comments Off on Interconnecting the Meaning Fragments
Friday, February 15, 2019
New Services
From today's online Boston Globe —
See also Wechsler + Siri in this journal and a post from
the date of Dr. Gunderson's death, January 11, 2019 —
Comments Off on New Services
Monday, October 15, 2018
History at Bellevue
The previous post, "Tesserae for a Tesseract," contains the following
passage from a 1987 review of a book about Finnegans Wake —
"Basically, Mr. Bishop sees the text from above
and as a whole — less as a sequential story than
as a box of pied type or tesserae for a mosaic,
materials for a pattern to be made."
A set of 16 of the Wechsler cubes below are tesserae that
may be used to make patterns in the Galois tesseract.
Another Bellevue story —
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare
from which I am trying to awake.”
— James Joyce, Ulysses
Comments Off on History at Bellevue
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
WISC RISC
WISC = Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
RISC = Reduced Instruction Set Computer or
Rust Inventory of Schizotypal Cognitions
See related material in earlier WISC RISC posts.
See also . . .
"Many parents ask us about the Block Design section
on the WISC and hope to purchase blocks and exercises
like those used on the WISC test. We explain that doing that
has the potential to invalidate their child's test results.
These Froebel Color Cubes will give you a tool to work with
your child on the skills tested for in the Block Design section
of the WISC in an ethical and appropriate way. These same
skills are applicable to any test of non-verbal reasoning like
the NNAT, Raven's or non-verbal sections of the CogAT or OLSAT. "
For a webpage that is perhaps un ethical and in appropriate,
see Block Designs in Art and Mathematics.
Comments Off on WISC RISC
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Mad Men vs. Math Men
Video starring the CEO of Cambridge Analytica —
Related material from John Rust, now the director of the
Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge —
My own sympathies are with the Mad Men.
See also Rust in the previous post, Cambridge Psychometrics.
He is known for the UK version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale
for Children.
Comments Off on Mad Men vs. Math Men
Cambridge Psychometrics*
Comments Off on Cambridge Psychometrics*
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
More
Comments Off on More
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Test Patterns
Raven’s Progressive Matrices intelligence test—
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale test—
Related art — (Click images for further details.)
Patterns suggesting those of the Raven test:
Patterns suggesting those of the Wechsler test:
The latter patterns were derived from the former.
Comments Off on Test Patterns
Monday, March 17, 2014
Narratives
Or: The Confessions of Nat Tate
“A convincing lie is, in its own way, a tiny, perfect narrative.”
— William Boyd, “A Short History of the Short Story” (2006)
“A novel written in the first-person singular has certain powerful
narrative advantages, especially when it takes the form of a ‘confession.'”
— William Boyd, “Memoir of a Plagiarist” (1994)
From a Log24 post yesterday —
For Little Man Tate —
Related material — Wechsler in this journal and an earlier Siri Hustvedt
art novel, from 2003 —
Mark and Lucille, Bill and Violet, Al and Regina, etc., etc., etc. —
Comments Off on Narratives
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Blockheads continues
Comments Off on Blockheads continues
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Good Question
Amy Adams in the new film “Her” —
“You’re dating an OS? What is that like?”
— Question quoted in a Hollywood Reporter
story on the film’s second trailer
From the same story, by Philiana Ng —
” The trailer is set to Arcade Fire’s
mid-tempo ballad ‘Supersymmetry.’ “
Parts of an answer for Amy —
Nov. 26, 2012, as well as
Dec. 24, 2013, and
The Hollywood Reporter story is from Dec. 3, 2013.
See also that date in this journal.
Comments Off on Good Question
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Art History
Quoted in the March 13 post Blackboard Jungle:
"Every morning you take your machete into the jungle
and explore and make observations, and every day
you fall more in love with the richness and splendor
of the place."
— Paul Lockhart, A Mathematician's Lament
More from Lockhart's jungle—
|
Mathematical objects, even if initially inspired by some aspect of reality (e.g., piles of rocks, the disc of the moon), are still nothing more than figments of our imagination. Not only that, but they are created by us and are endowed by us with certain characteristics; that is, they are what we ask them to be…. … in Mathematical Reality, because it is an imaginary place, I actually can have pretty much whatever I want…. The point is that there is no reality to any of this, so there are no rules or restrictions other than the ones we care to impose…. Make up anything you want, so long as it isn’t boring. Of course this is a matter of taste, and tastes change and evolve. Welcome to art history! — Lockhart, Paul (2009-04-01). A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form (pp. 100-104). Bellevue Literary Press. Kindle Edition. |
Related material in this journal: Bellevue and Wechsler.
See also Gombrich in this journal and in the following:
Related material (Click for some background.) —
Comments Off on Art History
Monday, December 17, 2012
Nonlyric Stupidity
Or: Being There
(A sequel to last night's Lyric Intelligence )
William Deresiewicz reviews Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 novel Player Piano :
The novel’s prescience is chilling. Six years before the left-wing English
sociologist Michael Young published The Rise of the Meritocracy ,
a dystopian satire that coined that now-ubiquitous final word,
Vonnegut was already there.
Related material:
Intelligence Test , Gombrich, and, more generally, Stupidity.
Comments Off on Nonlyric Stupidity
Monday, November 5, 2012
Design Cubes
Continued from April 2, 2012.
Some predecessors of the Cullinane design cubes of 1984
that lack the Cullinane cubes' symmetry properties—
Kohs cubes (see 1920 article)
Wechsler cubes (see Wechsler in this journal), and
Horowitz cubes (see links below).
Comments Off on Design Cubes
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Diamond Speech
"And when I think about the values
that are important to me today,
I think first about meritocracy."
— Robert Diamond, Colby College '73, now
Chair of the Colby College Board of Trustees, in a
commencement address on Sunday, May 25, 2008
Other remarks on that Sunday —
Related material from Colby—
See also an MAA report on Gouvea from June 6, 2012.
Comments Off on Diamond Speech
Monday, April 2, 2012
Intelligence Test
This journal on June 18, 2008—
The Wechsler Cubes story continues with a paper from December 2009…
"Learning effects were assessed for the block design (BD) task,
on the basis of variation in 2 stimulus parameters:
perceptual cohesiveness (PC) and set size uncertainty (U)." —
(Click image for some background.)
The real intelligence test is, of course, the one Wechsler flunked—
investigating the properties of designs made with sixteen
of his cubes instead of nine.
Comments Off on Intelligence Test
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Lottery Royale
Continuing this afternoon's meditation on Hollywood
endings, recall the ending of the 1966 David Niven
version of Casino Royale—
"Eventually, Jimmy's atomic pill explodes, destroying Casino Royale
along with everyone inside…. Sir James and all of his agents then
appear in heaven, with angel wings and harps and Jimmy Bond is
shown descending into the fires of hell." — Wikipedia
This evening's NY Lottery numbers are 169 and 1243.
An occurence of 169 in this journal on June 18, 2008—
Comments Off on Lottery Royale
Friday, November 19, 2010
Absolute Ambition
"It's my absolute ambition that you are touched to the core of your being with the content…."
— Julie Taymor on Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (Playbill video, undated)
Another ambitious comic-book promotion —
"What Logicomix does that few works in any medium do is to make intellectual passion palpable. That is its greatest strength. And it’s here that its form becomes its substance."
— Judith Roitman, review (pdf, 3.7 MB) of Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth , in …
The December 2010 AMS Notices cover has excerpts from Logicomix.
Related material:
"In the classical grammarians’ sense of the power of form over 'content' and style over 'substance,' he originated the phrase, 'the medium is the message.'"
— Joseph P. Duggan on Marshall McLuhan at The University Bookman
See also, in this journal, The Medium is the Message, Wechsler, and Blockheads .
Comments Off on Absolute Ambition
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Annals of Rhetoric
Tangled Up In Red
| CHANGE FEW CAN BELIEVE IN |
See Siri Hustvedt on the name "Wechsler"
and see the tag "permutahedron" in this journal.
Comments Off on Annals of Rhetoric