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She has over fifty times as many subscribers as I do, so she must be doing something right! See  Architect of Ideas - Some Thoughts About Calculus and Infinity . Oh wow, she beat me. I was just planning to do a video and started browsing through Chapter 10 of Eugenia Cheng's The Joy of Abstraction .  Here's a Google play video reading "Measurement" . It goes on talk about measuring without using units at all. A year ago, she was reading Lockhart's A Mathematician's Lament : She only posted this today, but it was recorded on November 11, 2023. Subscribe to Architect of Ideas .  Here's Paul Lockhart with A Great Idea   Subscribe to Harvard University Press .   Daniel Tubbenhauer on The Wallpaper Groups . He says that only 14 of the 17 are found in the Alhambra .   Subscribe to Visual Math . But they all can be found on walls around Lisbon in Portugal: Subscribe to Wolfgang Gross .   Now I can watch Janet's video from yesterday! My comment:   There's

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This is what happens when people take ideas seriously. Ideas like Toby's one, that a proof in maths is a story, and you are free to go wherever you like with it. Here's my comment: Here's a way you can develop your idea of "there's always one more" as a definition of infinity. You could define "infinitely long" as "there''s always one longer" so if you have a line of length N then you can double it and get a line of length 2N, and there's always a longer one. Then you can think of infinitely short as "there's always one shorter" So if you have a line of length N then there's a shorter one of length N/2 which half as long. And then you might think of ratios of lines, and products of lines, which are areas. I think this is a bit closer to the way the ancient Greeks thought about arithmetic, because they were putting everything in terms of geometric constructions. So there is one book of Euclid's Elements whi

I went to another writing workshop with Kate Rhodes this evening. We have to do homework in these classes! Next time we will do plotting, she says. What we have to do for homework is to write a title, a premis and a synopsis for some novels. This workshop is focused on becoming a professional paid writer, not just someone who does it to get their ideas out on a page. She says that publishers these days are very premis-driven. If the premis isn't catchy, they probably won't be interested in publishing your book! A New Thing Under The Sun What if almighty God had taken a definite form in the mind of a man, and he had actually written down all that there was to reasonably say about it 2,500 years ago? What if shady secret societies had been harvesting ideas for centuries and keeping them hidden in secret archives? What if the publishing industry was a sham that had been turned into a vehicle to harvest ideas for training Artificial Intelligences? What if someone discovered this

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This is reminiscent of David Lynch's advice on how to make a movie. Collect ideas, and when you have enough of them, that's a movie!  See  https://www.geniusmemoirwriting.com/ . Subscribe to Memoir Writing for Geniuses . David Lynch on Scriptwriting Subscribe to Frame into Focus . On Moving Paintings and Shooting Digital (2006): Subscribe to Filmagicians . So here are some short pieces I wrote at the first Turn Up And Write workshop I went to. We had ten to fifteen minutes to write something. 1. Fishing Alone on the beach Cold sand on the beach. Early morning and the smell of Feynbos. I'm going fishing. The sound of the waves crashing onto the beach behind the dunes. The cold. So cold. So cold my bare feet ached. It must've been the South-Easter blowing all night. It's refrigerated the sand! I have never felt cold that made me ache before. Is this normal? It must be. To ache, I mean; I know the cold wind isn't normal. The wind blows grains of sand in rivulets o