"The result is a series of columns that exhibit both highly specific local conditions as well as an overall coherency and continuity. The ornament is in a continuous flow, yet it consists of very distinct local formations. The complexity of column contrasts with the simplicity of its generative process."

This could use expansion from pragmatism all the way to ironism

"In gift wrap emergencies when you've got the present but need some wrapping, here's an idea for turning a magazine page into a bow. (There may be better ways to stick this thing together, but I used what I had on hand: staples and adhesive glue dots)"

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"Many approaches for retrieving documents from electronic databases depend on the literal matching of words in a user's query to the keywords defining database objects. Since there is great diversity in the words people use to describe the same object, literal- or lexical- based methods can often retrieve irrelevant documents. Another approach to exploit the implicit higher-order structure in the association of terms with text objects is to compute the singular value decomposition (SVD) of large sparse term by text-object matrices. Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) is a conceptual indexing method which employs the SVD to represent terms and objects by dominant singular subspaces so that user queries can be matched in a lower-rank semantic space. This paper considers a third, intermediate approach to facilitate the immediate detection of document (or term) clusters...."

"I have not even touched on the fascinating possibilities of interstellar finance, where spot and forward exchange markets will have to be supplemented by conditional present markets."