Vectors – Quotes

When social movements engage

When social movements engage in legal reform, they often mobilize images of people from their constituent population who most match national norms about what deserving citizens are like, and use those people as spokespeople and as lead plaintiffs in legal cases. This strategy requires that people who are experiencing intersectional harm – who are vulnerable … Read more

Words have a universe

Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity. Clark Coolidge

The assumption that the

The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative. Cargill Gilston Knott

New methods always look

New methods always look better than old ones. Neural nets are better than logistic regression, support vector machines are better than neural nets, etc. Bradley Efron

Truly, more than removing

Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize ‘ideologies,’ desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, … Read more

Isn’t it time that

Isn’t it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere. Rainer Maria Rilke

The vector equilibrium is

The vector equilibrium is the zero point for
happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty
theater and empty circus and empty universe
ready to accommodate any act and any audience.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The vector equilibrium is

The vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach we will ever know to eternity and god: the zero phase of conceptual integrity inherent in the positive and negative asymmetries that propagate the differentials of consciousness.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The radius vector describes

The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.
Johannes Kepler