Who would have thought that ‘software-aided thinking’ could lead to my using Excel in ways it was clearly not planned? In symmetry, not only orthogonally, but also diagonally!?

You can see the result in 40 PowerPoint slides, lasting 37 minutes.

On vimeo.

On Google Drive and on LinkedIn.

The editor of a major German scientific magazine wrote “extremely beautiful and creative”…

What do you think?

First came the patterns of prime numbers that are not supposed to exist. So I built primenumbers.store, thinking I could protect my ‘mathematical art’ with NFTs and sell Prime Number patters as Excel worksheets. After all, they were rather time consuming to create. A year later, I decided to ‘downgrade’ which now produces 417 broken links on 114 pages…

Then I began to realise that ‘Digital Numbers’ are such a high level concept in terms of abstraction, concerning number theory, that prime numbers were a kind of red herring. Lord Sudeley thanks to whom I started the Forum for Stable Currencies in 1998 at the House of Lords, once asked: why do numbers need a theory?…

During 2022 I experienced so many eye openers that I have to prioritise. Dr. Jacqui Taylor asked about First Audience and Minimum Viable Prototype. That means:

• Digital Number Patterns
  • as individual ‘mathematical art’
  • or as series of patterns that tell a story.
• Or is it better to use Powerpoint for letting number patterns show us how they are mightier than words?

I produced my first set of slides when I saw Exotic Approaches to Naturalness as a workshop at CERN, my former employer in Geneva. My unwanted response has the title “Dimensionality and Ortho-Diagonal Symmetry as Keys to Unlocking Naturalness”. ‘Generalised symmetries’ had struck a cord, especially after the Beauty and Perfection of my Symmetries enchanted my best friend from CERN times. But I learned from the workshop organiser that the Wikipedia definition of naturalness was not sufficient to jump the bar of entry.

Since then, I have created two more series and am finalising the third one:

1. How can Symmetries Scale from the Tiniest Nuclear Particles to the Largest Cosmic Galaxies?
2. How can Pythagoras Help Scaling?
3. How can Pythagoras Unmask π as a Trans-Dimensional and ‘3D Metric’ Scale Factor?

#ProfitFor Purpose means selling IP rather than publishing it for free. Hence I wonder who wants to pay how much for:

• appreciating new visual relationships between digits and numbers?
• understanding the shortcomings of current mathematical assumptions?
• realising that metrics is the name of the bridge between maths and reality, ie. the world of geo-metry, sym-metries and coding as alternative to algebra?
• recognise that the curse of dimensionality is a kind of ‘universal yardstick’ or Urmaßstab in German and thus a blessing?

If Einstein had use of computer and screen instead of pen and paper, he might have closed the gap between maths and reality. Instead we have to live with uncertainties and probabilities causing us to crave forecasts and predictions on all sorts of level. My bank even predicts the balance of my account at first sight, but I have to click, if I want to see transactions over the recent past… But watch this space! There are lovely new avenues towards new horizons!

Why does this layering result in a special kind of 3D? Let me count the ways:

1. ‘Smart’ or ‘digital’ 3D is visually unique;
   • its visual difference is based on ‘data inherent’ numerical qualities rather than seeks to create ‘3D effects’ as Excel chart styles do;
2. ‘Digital’ 3D depends on unique metadata derived from data sets;
   • these parameters result from deep insights into the overlap between maths and data science;
3. a data set is a table of numbers which can have three kinds of origin:
   • parallel time series;
   • the matrix of an image;
   • multi-dimensional measurements.

Each type of data is translated into its own version of ‘”smart ‘digital 3D’. What they have in common are ‘core transformations’ which could be called ‘digital Fourier’. Here I only show multi-dimensional layers. Re-visualisations of images are on 3d-metrics.digital.

Excel

‘Smart’ or ‘Digital’ 3D

Hello, Microsoft, might you be interested in deep insights to make ‘smart’ or ‘digital 3D’ happen?

You’d get some from #PrimeNumbers in #AmazingColourPatterns but they won’t help you. That site just demonstrates that I’m a “mathematical artist”. And I put it on hold, as prime numbers turn out to be a mathematical red herring or #fakeproblem through my lens of ‘Digital Numbers’.

You can also categorise me as INTP (Introverted, iNtuitive, Thinking, Prospecting). That may explain why I dare to question established knowledge.

BUT ‘thinking slowly’, with coloured pens and graph paper, resulted in #PrimeNumbers in #AmazingColourPatterns.

And thus a new era is beginning. In German it’s called #LebensAufgabe, my ‘task of life’. And being in Germany means more respect for women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). So we’ll see what Life has up its sleeve for me and this latest website of mine.

Would be nice, if you felt like commenting!

For the moment, we re-visualised images above and beyond what our previous prototype produced. The significance is pretty fundamental, in terms of #DeepThinking about time, space and measuring.

At CERN, the European Centre for Nuclear Research in Geneva, where I started my professional life as systems analyst and diagnostician of software, there were theoreticians who designed experiments to prove their theories, just as there are architects who design buildings.

Since then I’ve discovered that everybody builds not just theories but also ‘models’, especially in software, and particularly in business, where everything is measured by money.

But time is not money, even though capitalism tries to convince us otherwise. And money is certainly not the measure of human capital.

That will become very apparent once our ‘Smart Knowledge Engine’ also puts ‘layering‘ on-line, my way of visualising rows or columns of matrices ‘staggered’ along a ‘visual z-axis’.

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Now I’ve got a team with whom to put my prototype software online and a whole re-configuration of deep thinking and web rationalisation is taking place.

As a first step, this is to send you over to 3d-metrics.me while you hopefully will look out for:

• Smart Knowledge Portals – the entrance into Smart Knowledge Space
• where our Knowledge Engine
• is processing Smart Data – from data.gov.uk – an invitation to participate in ‘enlightenment through data’
• providing three Methods:
  • Re-visualising images
  • Layering the dimensions of multi-dimensional data
  • Projecting time series with short-, medium- and long-term trends.

Watch this space!

But after (male) doctors, instead of admitting they can’t help me, told me my pain is psychological, I learned more about psychology, philosophy, religion and consciousness than I ever wanted to know, having studied mathematics and computing.

Now I am reading not only Pythagoras Trousers – God, Physics and the Gender War – the history of science by Margaret Wertheim, but also Siddharta by Hermann Hesse.

And, once again, I am acutely aware of the need for

• more women needing to influence not only Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) but also philosophy, psychology and religion
• the West needing to embrace Eastern philosophies and religions including the art of Tantra, the Kamasutra and the Taoist approach to love and sex
• adopting awareness and consciousness as principles of learning and teaching – beyond mechanical ‘skills training’.

In Hesse’s novel, Siddharta was sure of 3 skills: thinking, waiting and fasting…

When we learn how to think, as logically as a computer and as associatively as ‘blue sky artists’ and ‘free spirits’, we can create

• an equitable society of balanced people
• balanced minds for gender balanced agendas
• and putting time series, multi-dimensional data and images through smart software knowledge portals – for scientific and possibly spiritual insights.

That’s my contribution to the age of software-based thinking and life-long and life-wide learning – beyond what books have given us so far.

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ICT PoS Original (Photo credit: Terry Freedman)

This event followed the one of its kind last year which I thoroughly enjoyed.

It covered the kinds of themes I’m interested in and thus was an excellent way of taking ‘the pulse of our interesting times’, e.g.

• asking for a High Tech Task Force
• more data networking
• and that the BBC license fee could be used for startups.

At the same time, it was observed that

• we are at a regulatory tipping point
• need effective competition
• and need to make smart decisions.

In the spirit of Back to the Future, Forward to the Past was suggested. For we are

• in an arms race against online crooks
• wondering whether regulators can move fast enough?
• facing the rise of big data.  

Might a ‘digital charter‘ unite us for the right policy and the right mandates?

• Ofcom should be braver
• we are in a battle of ideas
• Think tanks are needed, for the world needs help, too, in the great silos of the state.

The most (r)evolutionary presentation was offered by historian Colin Williams of Softbox who illustrated how we are living in a Digital (r)evolution, culminating in his observation that money is a ‘collective hallucination‘.

Given my many money related sites, no wonder I was intrigued and fascinated!

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Mashing up

After having designed many amazing software projects, Charles has put together MOSAIC so that large data bases (1.9 million records as an example) can be examined instantly. The speed with which this can take place is, in my view, in general terms, THE smart data management tool. It opens doors to

• boiling big data down to essential information
• understanding the value of big data by understanding the importance of its components
• gaining deeper insights and better understanding from more and more data.

But then there is the business view where bottom lines count: 

• understanding your company’s data means understanding your company
• appreciating business data means increasing business intelligence for saving and making money
• defining criteria for making decisions needs to be based on the right data and information!

And there is the research or science view where AHA, EUREKA and WOW count:

• from mining big data to finding gems of insights
• from analysing big data to understanding its treasure troves
• from smart data management to coming to important conclusions and major decisions.

That’s how intelligence increases, in the spirit of Humboldtian science, where measurements are the key to understanding nature in its way of ‘operating’. Who are we to describe that with big data and visualise it with the aid of numerical metadata? Just humble players in the great scheme of things. But still passionate about KNOWING rather than believing!

For I know what I’ve got under my kimono: the mathematical spaces and transformations necessary to derive ‘generic numerical metadata‘ from small and big data. An American IP lawyer had advised me to withdraw my five patents to be protected by trade secrets. In software terms, that’s called ‘black boxing’.

And thus we shall see whether we’ll build a smart energy portal as our joint ‘mash up’! Hearing Luke Nicholson from Carbon Culture at the Open Data Institute seemed to suggest possible avenues. Onwards and upwards. What else is there???

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English: A diagram illustrating the distinction between cancer stem cell targeted and conventional cancer therapies (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The magic of networking was working again: it took the invitation to  celebrate 50 years of computing @ CERN to discover this Cancer Research UK project: computer volunteers are invited to identify and count cancer cells.

My Technical Expert Nelson Wootton jumped on this opportunity to ‘prove my theory’.

After 3 funding applications have just been turned down, we now trust ‘under employed professional woman’ Ann Witbrock to turn my latest specifications into code.

Meanwhile, Grandma Got STEM is honouring women like me: always in the minority in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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