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The prime tuples conjecture, sieve theory, and the work of Goldston-Pintz-Yildirim, Motohashi-Pintz, and Zhang
I am free blogging dairy cow Terry Tao WordPress article Zhang and builds on it roughly contemporaneous. in like fashion and especially due to polymath 8 the size of the so-called ruler was reduced from 70 million – 246?and just as there was a flurry of activity on the twin primes conjecture after Zhang the recent screening of a documentary film counting from infinity by George si si si se ry I mean csicseri whycarol I guess carol I s capitalize causes some progress in defiance of the first law idea nurse a I that is inertia progress with the film about call jake owen call paul p a u l jason jacob j as in chipotle jack o b call wade c o h e a n c o h p n call in c o h n call colin call colin call call paul colin towing colin siding coincidence bug hug oh my god steve and eric o n sons of the feels prize winner fieldshad started filming their dad talking about 1963 and the Continuum Hypothesis. I bought a cassette of the film and then viewing it as I write this digressing too around tap around pack pack like a chicken with his head cut off on my stupid handheld all those thanks to Sr for showing me the freaking dictation buttonI am sending Steve this film actually we could say that the work in progress is a joint issue by Steve Eric and Paul it’s tough to film Paul Cohen without him taking over no offense
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Terry Tao
I spent about 6 hours today from 10 a.m. till 2:30 p.m. on a Friday screening the Jean film and cross referencing with my stupid hand held having seen the film earlier this week at Cubberley and chatting up a couple interesting people about post film the Cohen family production for work in progress. here ar15 sources in the excellent film:
Suppose one is given a $latex {k_0}&fg=000000$-tuple $latex {{mathcal H} = (h_1,ldots,h_{k_0})}&fg=000000$ of $latex {k_0}&fg=000000$ distinct integers for some $latex {k_0 geq 1}&fg=000000$, arranged in increasing order. When is it possible to find infinitely many translates $latex {n + {mathcal H} =(n+h_1,ldots,n+h_{k_0})}&fg=000000$ of $latex {{mathcal H}}&fg=000000$ which consists entirely of primes? The case $latex {k_0=1}&fg=000000$ is just Euclid’s theorem on the infinitude of primes, but the case $latex {k_0=2}&fg=000000$ is already open in general, with the $latex {{mathcal H} = (0,2)}&fg=000000$ case being the notorious twin prime conjecture.
On the other hand, there are some tuples $latex {{mathcal H}}&fg=000000$ for which one can easily answer the above question in the negative. For instance, the only translate of $latex {(0,1)}&fg=000000$ that consists entirely of primes is $latex {(2,3)}&fg=000000$, basically because each translate of $latex {(0,1)}&fg=000000$ must contain an even number, and the only even prime is $latex {2}&fg=000000$. More generally…
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Cardinals sink Giants on Yadda Yadda Yadda (Molina homer 100)

Juan Perez robs Stanford Cardinal now New Gas-houser Pirotty of dinger; Cardinals took rubber match of the series, there.
edit to add: somehow I am claiming also not just Seinfeld but Nabokov “Pale Fire” and previous unpublished research or sussing or Googling or search-injuning on “Red Sox Beat Yanks 5–4 On Chapman’s Homer” and Lawrence Ritter and “hoot mon” and CGR stockings. There’s a Ben Chapman, and a sad Ray Chapman. There’s also a Bill Bradley and his “Boo Gang” and a New Yorker poem that riffs or refs “Big Jeff Tersreau” from 1942, but I really tried to start with Zimbardo and tennis: to wit, what if Zimbardo is behind the Stanford’s interest in a 15-year-old prospective student who is only incidentally or by convenience a tennis prodigy? And perish the thought a connection, outside of Plastic Alto, between that project and the stolen arm of the angel, glossed below. Stanford Tennis Experiment.
Link to Perez.
Ok, edita, that’s three hours, here at Coupa Beisbol Cafe, from 10 to 1 on a Thursday, with just a few interruptions, but I didn’t really get to the thing I meant to write about, that I was pondering, and typing in my head, about this. EW, TAD, RM, KA, “Ricky”, a lady with a Sleepytime Gorilla tee…
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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds
That’s not actually the USPS motto, but an inscription on a building in New York, sort of a monument. There’s supposedly a Carly Simon song based on it. And I think of James Taylor. But I am here trying to juxtapose it (and I riffed on it during an exchange with the MMW archivist, below) with the news that someone vandalized a statue on campus here, about the grieving angel i.e. the tribute to Leland Stanford, who died young.

Credit LA Cicero / Stanford News Service
Angel of Grief at Stanford, from 1908 to six days ago, in honor of dead brother of Jane Lathrop Stanford
In Palo Alto, meanwhile, am I have been trying all morning to work this in somewhere, or trying to repress such, a building directly across from City Hall which once housed the mail service is soon to be the single-tenant home of Palantir, a defense contractor and privately held $20 B startup whose name references Lord of the Rings but to me is more Orwellian. And we have a beautiful post office building that the idiots in Washington want to sell off for scrap.
The searchable fortress
I found your blog and this post because “The Hidden Fortress” plays tonite in Palo Alto, California, at the Stanford Theatre, a non-profit film museum under-written and subsidized (tickets are $7, pop corn only $1) by the Packard Foundation, related to Hewelett-Packard, or more precisely (and excuse the run-on) the son of the founder, David Packard. I too am just learning of the Princess Yuki – Princess Leia connection. Oddly or uniquely, I am also mulling over how to tie this in with an article I am writing about ethnicity and gender and tennis.
The film series here featured two other Kurosawa films that I recognized nearly shot by shot from their influence on the more familiar (at least to me) Clint Eastwood “spaghetti westerns”.
Nothing new under the sun….
Also: I am curious about the photo on your masthead, of the toy wagon and figure. Does it depict a Hollywood scene? (I have a running riff on Southwest Arts versus faux versions, I sometimes call “Indians-Schmindians”). Your work recalls Chris Burden, David Levinthal.
(post to Tim Neath’s blog)
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Foolish Wallace
perhaps it was reading Huck Finn that sent me spelunking as in Hannibal MO into the Earthwise storage catacombs unearthing a press clipping IRA call from years ago about one of my favorite bands to it and it’s actually a sports column in an underground rag number 5 North Carolina 24 in five median SATs score entering students 1118 entering basketball players 787. Rasheed Wallace and Jerry Stackhouse unlikely to stick around for Tarheel sheepskins, forsaking Chapel Hill scene for NBA green and beast merching dean of cleans relatively glittery grad rate – come on guys Superchunk stayed in Dand bang bang. (“superchunk stayed indie”)
edit to add, the next day: I was actually sent into relative motion in the Einstein sense by the fact that Tim Luhrs has archived about 1,000 Medeski Martin and Wood shows, and about 200 posters, flyers and stubs. That sent me crate-digging for this:

I actually have about 4 of these stubs to spare, if someone wants to procure them; there was a lady named Dana Fahey who called to have 4 set aside but never claimed them and the show sold thru. I think i also have about 200 of the stubs, the extraction of which would require more work, but if there is a call, I would probably answer.
ok i admit I am conflating “foolish” with “like a fool” oops.
and normally when I am discussing this, or digressing from this, I mention that MMW played The Cub two days after an AFI show and one day after Cake, a harmonic convergence of unsurpassable esteem, given the number of dark nights at the defunct high school auditorium, sort of like Twin Primes or triplets on the zeta landscape; we sold 1,000 tickets in three nights, out of like 10,000 for the entire 150-show, six-year series run. But here I am trying to say I am maybe the only guy equally “gaga” for Superchunk and MMW, with the possble caveat or worth mentioning that Billy Martin Illy B is from Chapel Hill.
a bridge to Mars
watching quote artifact unquote the documentary about the rock band directly after watching erase screening a bridge too far quote unquote provoked in me this clever mash-up head especially the scene where the good guys se quote we are holding the north end of the bridge they are holding the south end of the bridge and the subservient says quote you mean we are surrounded.parenthasis I am talking about the part where they hire the producer capital F flood and have a false sense of optimism that is to say hiiithe band is surrounded and besieged cheeky monkey aren’t I and thank you Srthe pushing my buttons speak friend and enter and all that the cup of tea couldn’t hurt30
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Namigoro Rashomon v. Chuck Wepner
(I’d like to see a fight between Chuck Wepner and Namigoro Rashomon….
Mark Weiss
retired concert promoter, budding fight promoter, of middle aged to elder men — Rashomon is 95
what about a fight club focused on former William Morris agents????)
For actual information on Chuck Wepner, who fought Ali and inspired “Rocky”, contact APB American
Program Bureau in Newton, MA.
“Yojimbo” screens at 7:30 tonite at Stanford Theatre. It was the source for “A Fistful of Dollars” starring Clint Eastwood — not sure who played “The Giant”.
Pawdaddy!
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Capital corrupts worker outreach campaign, for Carpenters 22, in P.A.

There could be six jobs here not two holding these signs and props, or why not get a permit to build and display at Lytton Plaza?
The international guild of puppeteers should file a protest here, demanding someone qualified operate the grimbo. As ye sew, so ye reap and all that.
Part II: Joe 90 w. Joe Hill
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