#AB/cranmer

[boleynqueenes]

for the wip guessing game: shadow

"She called you a shadow." "I have heard worse."

[fideidefenswhore]

why is fatal throne saur bad...

[theloniousbach]

NOT MUCH PIANO FOR A CHANGE AT SMALLS JAZZ CLUB

LEW TABACKIN with Bruce Barth, a pianist; Boris Kozlov; and Jason Tiemann, 25 MARCH 2025, 9 pm set

MATT PAVLOKA’S HORN BAND with Jonathan Finlayson, Michael Attias, Jason Garchik, and Steven Cranmer, 27 MARCH 2025, 7:30 pm

NICOLETTA MANZINI with Philip Harper, Tyler Mitchell, and David Hawkins, 18 FEBRUARY 2025, 10:30 pm

I got back to horns in a big way after a run of trios. I kept NICOLETTA MANZINI on the list for more than a month after seeing her be a bright spot on a typically uneven Frank Lacy gig, so disheveled that usually reliable Miki Yamanaka didn’t engage. That LEW TABACKIN who usually brings his tenor and flute into gigs with rhythm sections had Bruce Barth made that gig even more interesting. And then bassist MATT PAVLOKA played with basically the Ethan Iverson Sextet frontline, with Michael Attias on alto for this gig rather than Sam Newsome on soprano with Iverson. So, even with Barth as the exception that proved, tested, the rule, this run is about what opens up without a chordal instrument, particularly the piano.

LEW TABACKIN, after years as featured soloist with the big band he co-led with Toshiko Akiyoshi, has been showing up at SMALLS JAZZ CLUB with this trio. I missed the big band Tabackin and so have been playing catch up on his playing and then trying to imagine him in that completely different format. He’s an odd player, a little gruff and yet with a fragility to his playing. He doesn’t honk or take up space in that kind of way. He spins out his solos almost a little too long, perhaps freed from the concision of having a big band behind. But some of the best moments when he explicitly engaged in duets with each member of the band. The flute tune, Desert Leaf, inspired by writing by Kobe Abe, did have a Japanese feel that was appealing. And, while I don’t think of him as a big player, he evoked Coleman Hawkins with an Ellington portrait of Hawk as well as The Man I Love, after his version. Barth comped sympathetically but largely unobtrusively but also laid back for many choruses. His solos were typically strong and his duet segment with Tabackin was electric. Perhaps his biggest role was to take some pressure off Boris Kozlov as the bassist in a pianoless band has his/her hands full, though Kozlov is more than capable.

So is MATT PAVLOKA, indeed he, like Iverson with many of the same players, relishes having the palette they represent. He was first a trombonist, so there was one turn where he played horn instead of bass. He didn’t solo so he probably played the same role. Also like Iverson (but even more so), this set had a through composed/New Music feel. Certainly, there are tones and timbres for a composer/arranger to play with, including full choirs of horns and the various permutations, often trumpet and alto. Each are fine soloists, but, given the compositions, jazz only threatened to break out. The compositions though have an intricate appeal. The titles are literary, Onerous Oenophiles, Billy Tolly’s Staircase (from Fat City, the novel and film), Taxonomy Crisis, 2024 Ways to Die in Needmore Indiana, and a Pynchon inspired Vheissu. PAVLOKA may be too clever for his own good. I didn’t enjoy his playing as much as I do Iverson’s, but I probably like Iverson’s writing and thinking even more than his playing.

NICOLETTA MANZINI seems to play regularly with Smalls regular Tyler Mitchell, so she brought him along for her first gig as a leader. But she opened with a Mingus tune and closed with another into Monk’s In Walked Bud. She and thoughtful trumpeter Philip Harper were by turns jaunty, thoughtful, hard boppish, and balladic. The Mingus bookends were suggestive—she evoked a similar range of the music with Harper in particular well in the mainstream. But he too didn’t need a piano. Neither did she. Mitchell was essential. So was Hawkins, but I have seen him sparkle. He didn’t call attention to himself, but he was solid. It was the right set to end on and to clear my ears after the busyness of PAVLOKA.

[rahabs]

I honestly can't see the hype and interest in Diana Spencer either, but perhaps Anne Boleyn could go to the top of that pile? There is practically a new portrayal of AB every year, and none of the recent ones are even good. Elizabeth Tudor can possibly fit somewhere in there too, considering her amount of portrayals in comparison to Mary Tudor's.

Good point. I think I've just actively blocked out a lot of the new portrayals of Anne Boleyn recently (especially that 2021 series; I'm happier forgetting that exists), and my dash is never as flooded with her. @en-theos has warned me of another recent miniseries too. Somehow amidst all this 'The Tudors' remains one of the better, more nuanced portrayals of Anne, but then again I think 'The Tudors' was unique amongst all Tudor/Henry VIII-related media for the deliberate care it took to portray the religious and political aspects of Henry's reign beyond just "hurr durr six waifus", with a lot of focus on the supporting characters of his reign (even if it's not always accurate and sometimes important figures like Cranmer and Norfolk just go missing--but I loved everything we got with the Pilgrimage of Grace and Henry's religious conflicts since most people don't realise Henry was a doctrinal Catholic all his life and the show did show that; furthermore, this is still the best portrayal of Cromwell and I loved the attention given to Edward Seymour, Bishop Fisher, all the politics surrounding Henry, Colm Wilkinson was there for some reason, etc).

... This is in danger of turning into another "why I still think The Tudors is one of the best piece of Tudor media despite its flaws" reply, so I will stop there (my dissertation was on Tudor monarchs so I know far more than I should), but.

Honestly I'll fully admit I'm biased and just find Anne Boleyn more interesting than Diana Spencer (it's just too modern for me--as callous as it sounds Diana Spencer hasn't been dead long enough for me to be invested in her or interested), but I've been avoiding the recent Anne-centred shows so it just slipped my mind. (Also, Wolf Hall was bad too, sorry, I stand by it--it was the same stereotypical portrayals of everyone claiming to be 'unique' because it was from Cromwell's POV, but The Tudors still managed to have a better Cromwell and Anne at the end of the day. Vaguely hilarious.)

[queencamden]

I didn’t read the whole thing, and I was gonna add the concept of Diarmaid Macollough bouncing back and forth playing both Cromwell and Cranmer. But I see you’ve already said that

But imagine Cromwell being played by Mantel hehe sorry not sorry, as Six stated

Also, Linda Porter can play Katherine Parr! (She wrote a book on her right)

Maybe Wilkinson as Katheryn, (though I do like the idea of Russel being sad the whole time because he’s no longer playing Anne Boleyn). I haven’t read her biography, but if we don’t want Russel playing both beheaded queens that would work.

The next Tudor drama should have, instead of professional actors, all of the historical figures played by the relevant historian.

[scienceblogtumbler]

Provably exact artificial intelligence for nuclear and particle physics

The Standard Model of particle physics describes all the known elementary particles and three of the four fundamental forces governing the universe; everything except gravity. These three forces — electromagnetic, strong, and weak — govern how particles are formed, how they interact, and how the particles decay.

Studying particle and nuclear physics within this framework, however, is difficult, and relies on large-scale numerical studies. For example, many aspects of the strong force require numerically simulating the dynamics at the scale of 1/10th to 1/100th the size of a proton to answer fundamental questions about the properties of protons, neutrons, and nuclei.

“Ultimately, we are computationally limited in the study of proton and nuclear structure using lattice field theory,” says assistant professor of physics Phiala Shanahan. “There are a lot of interesting problems that we know how to address in principle, but we just don’t have enough compute, even though we run on the largest supercomputers in the world.”

To push past these limitations, Shanahan leads a group that combines theoretical physics with machine learning models. In their paper “Equivariant flow-based sampling for lattice gauge theory,” published this month in Physical Review Letters, they show how incorporating the symmetries of physics theories into machine learning and artificial intelligence architectures can provide much faster algorithms for theoretical physics.

“We are using machine learning not to analyze large amounts of data, but to accelerate first-principles theory in a way which doesn’t compromise the rigor of the approach,” Shanahan says. “This particular work demonstrated that we can build machine learning architectures with some of the symmetries of the Standard Model of particle and nuclear physics built in, and accelerate the sampling problem we are targeting by orders of magnitude.”

Shanahan launched the project with MIT graduate student Gurtej Kanwar and with Michael Albergo, who is now at NYU. The project expanded to include Center for Theoretical Physics postdocs Daniel Hackett and Denis Boyda, NYU Professor Kyle Cranmer, and physics-savvy machine-learning scientists at Google Deep Mind, Sébastien Racanière and Danilo Jimenez Rezende.

This month’s paper is one in a series aimed at enabling studies in theoretical physics that are currently computationally intractable. “Our aim is to develop new algorithms for a key component of numerical calculations in theoretical physics,” says Kanwar. “These calculations inform us about the inner workings of the Standard Model of particle physics, our most fundamental theory of matter. Such calculations are of vital importance to compare against results from particle physics experiments, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, both to constrain the model more precisely and to discover where the model breaks down and must be extended to something even more fundamental.”

The only known systematically controllable method of studying the Standard Model of particle physics in the nonperturbative regime is based on a sampling of snapshots of quantum fluctuations in the vacuum. By measuring properties of these fluctuations, once can infer properties of the particles and collisions of interest.

This technique comes with challenges, Kanwar explains. “This sampling is expensive, and we are looking to use physics-inspired machine learning techniques to draw samples far more efficiently,” he says. “Machine learning has already made great strides on generating images, including, for example, recent work by NVIDIA to generate images of faces ‘dreamed up’ by neural networks. Thinking of these snapshots of the vacuum as images, we think it’s quite natural to turn to similar methods for our problem.”

Adds Shanahan, “In our approach to sampling these quantum snapshots, we optimize a model that takes us from a space that is easy to sample to the target space: given a trained model, sampling is then efficient since you just need to take independent samples in the easy-to-sample space, and transform them via the learned model.”

In particular, the group has introduced a framework for building machine-learning models that exactly respect a class of symmetries, called “gauge symmetries,” crucial for studying high-energy physics.

As a proof of principle, Shanahan and colleagues used their framework to train machine-learning models to simulate a theory in two dimensions, resulting in orders-of-magnitude efficiency gains over state-of-the-art techniques and more precise predictions from the theory. This paves the way for significantly accelerated research into the fundamental forces of nature using physics-informed machine learning.

The group’s first few papers as a collaboration discussed applying the machine-learning technique to a simple lattice field theory, and developed this class of approaches on compact, connected manifolds which describe the more complicated field theories of the Standard Model. Now they are working to scale the techniques to state-of-the-art calculations.

“I think we have shown over the past year that there is a lot of promise in combining physics knowledge with machine learning techniques,” says Kanwar. “We are actively thinking about how to tackle the remaining barriers in the way of performing full-scale simulations using our approach. I hope to see the first application of these methods to calculations at scale in the next couple of years. If we are able to overcome the last few obstacles, this promises to extend what we can do with limited resources, and I dream of performing calculations soon that give us novel insights into what lies beyond our best understanding of physics today.”

This idea of physics-informed machine learning is also known by the team as “ab-initio AI,” a key theme of the recently launched MIT-based National Science Foundation Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI), where Shanahan is research coordinator for physics theory.

Led by the Laboratory for Nuclear Science, the IAIFI is comprised of both physics and AI researchers at MIT and Harvard, Northeastern, and Tufts universities.

“Our collaboration is a great example of the spirit of IAIFI, with a team with diverse backgrounds coming together to advance AI and physics simultaneously” says Shanahan. As well as research like Shanahan’s targeting physics theory, IAIFI researchers are also working to use AI to enhance the scientific potential of various facilities, including the Large Hadron Collider and the Laser Interferometer Gravity Wave Observatory, and to advance AI itself.

source https://scienceblog.com/518709/provably-exact-artificial-intelligence-for-nuclear-and-particle-physics/

[libbyrhcde]

“shes only a woman” the fuck that meant to mean kingston

[trent11710370348-blog]

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[fideidefenswhore]

What if Anne Boleyn had lived to see Mary come to the throne? Do you see Mary doing everything she can to get rid of her? Would Anne suffer from the same fate as Thomas Cramner?

Mm, that's a popular AU to be sure, but I think the political realities would have been rather more complex in such a counterfactual.

First, I'd have to ask the circumstances of them both surviving and Mary coming to the throne-- has Henry had his marriage with Anne annulled, with her being exiled from court? Or has Anne been Queen throughout the remainder of his reign? Has she had a son? Has there been any alteration or reversal to the Act of Succession (1534)? Has there been any alteration or reversal to the Act that declared Anne regent for her children, should Henry die? Have all her child/ren died, or has Elizabeth merely been married abroad (ie, is she currently living at the French court, wed to whichever prince or duke)? Does Mary have a husband, and if so, who is he, and what wealth and power and claims (to the English throne, or others, or merely title) does he have?

Assuming the second, and assuming Mary, as a sole femme, has a successful coup regardless (so, perhaps Anne attempts to assume regency with Elizabeth but is overthrown), again, the political realities are going to be complex. Edward VI's death happening in such secrecy and him altering the succession to make Jane Grey his heir without the approval of Parliament were circumstances that were to her advantage; all bolstered the rhetoric and justification of her coup, accession, and reign (based on the Act of Succession of 1543, even though she reversed her illegitimacy therein). The Marian myth was that John Dudley, out of pure ambition and greed, usurped the royal prerogative (of both HVIII and Edward VI) and forged an altered succession to place his daughter-in-law on the throne (and, as you mentioned, Cranmer as well).

So, in these altered circumstances, Mary's task would be near impossible. How could her propagandists argue that Anne had done the same, when all she had done was adhere to Acts of Parliament which were very well-known by the people? What would the justification be for her arrest in this scenario, much less execution? Historically, after his arrest, Mary petitioned the Pope at the time to have Cranmer excommunicated (likely, she didn't want to have any parallels with her father drawn in the case of the execution of Bishop/Cardinal Fisher) before his execution. In this, she succeeded, and being thus excommunicated, Cranmer was no longer Archbishop of Canterbury upon his day of execution. I would imagine that she would attempt the same in this counterfactual with AB and Cranmer both, and whether she was successful in securing their excommunications might then inform her actions.

Edit: Tbh, what I conceptualize for this scenario would be more like a succession/civil war for the throne with two female claimants (so, Mary and Elizabeth/Anne’s regency), similar in nature to that of Princess Juana vs Princess Isabella in the 1470s (it would be … very difficult for Mary to argue Elizabeth wasn’t Henry’s child had these Acts of Parliament remained and Anne herself remained Queen, though, as Isabella did for Juana re: Henry IV of Castile, since she didn’t really manage to do that even in the aftermath of Anne’s adultery accusations, and she certainly tried) and I think it’d be a toss-up as to who would emerge the victor. Reason being, as I was just reminded of answering another ask, Anne was the greatest landowner among all the Tudor consorts. Mary I was also a great landowner by the time Edward VI died, because the council was at pains to ‘buy her goodwill’… this backfired, though, because it strengthened her base of power (Jeri L. McIntosh has done some fantastic work in this subject, btw), and played a huge part in why her coup succeeded. Simply put, landowning was power, was wealth. That’s probably what it would come down to, had she been granted as many lands during the beginning of the regency council for Elizabeth or whatever son AB might have had.

Another thing that would tip the scales would be if Mary received foreign aid via Imperial forces, but given Charles V never supplied any in 1553…

And again, excommunication, although Elizabeth or whatever son probably wasn’t going to be excommunicated as a minor (just like Edward VI wasn’t), maybe Anne might have been? This could also be a factor in whether or not Mary received foreign aid from any Catholic powers. Although, yk, HVIII and Elizabeth I both were excommunicated and yet they were never ousted from their thrones.

Anyway! Something to think about . Thanks for the intriguing question ☺️

[fideidefenswhore]

You mentioned that Mary, during her reign, did not consider her father's later marriages valid. Could it be because they were not under the Catholic faith? At least that's what I understood, correct me if I'm wrong

More specifically, none of these marriages (save his to Anne Boleyn's, ironically enough...although that was a conditional papal dispensation to be used in the specific circumstances of either the annulment of his first marriage granted by the papacy, or, by implication, the death of Catherine of Aragon) had the required papal dispensations (HVIII was related in some degree to all of them, specifically through Edward I at the least). HVIII and COA had the papal dispensation that was upheld explicitly by a later Pope and implicitly by the rest, Mary I and Philip II had the needed papal dispensation to wed.

[fideidefenswhore]

The Reformation Parliament had met over six-and-one-half years. The Parliament and Convocation of 1536 lasted six weeks. On the afternoon of the last day, Henry came to the House of Lords, where he knighted his Lord Privy Seal and raised him to a new dignity as Baron Cromwell of Wimbledon. The new nobleman was given lands at Wimbledon and Mortlake that, until now, had belonged to the archbishops of Canterbury. Cranmer was forced to surrender them to ennoble the son of a Putney brewer.

Thomas Cranmer, Susan Wabuda

[boleynqueenes]

5. What’s a fic idea you’ve had that you will never write?

AB has a son in 1534 ---> but he dies of natural causes/mysterious illness in 1544, making elizabeth heiress again --> henry viii lives until june 1551 <-- but, due to similar although not identical, historical reasons, TS is still arrested and executed 1548/9, the official reason mooted for both being his earlier attempts to wed the lady mary and overthrow the succession as it stands via parliamentary oath --> AB lives until may 1570, the end result being a similar historical reputation to MB, as she was only regent for the few months elizabeth remained 17, those between her 18th birthday/coronation, much as MB was for her grandson in 1509.

[fideidefenswhore]

@bunniesandbeheadings I might misunderstand the text you linked. How could Mary call Edward a bastard? KoA was dead by then, and of course widowers can remarry. Calling Jane a legitimate Queen in no way would take away KoA’s status as Queen?

all of hviii's marriages after catherine of aragon were not recognised by the catholic church/pope. when he needed dispensations for these marriages, like for affinity (his marriage to jane was one of them), they were granted by the anglican church, whose authority the pope and other catholic monarchies of christendom did not recognise (the last real 'papal' henrician appointment, irony of ironies, was thomas cranmer's). there was also the matter of all marriages taking place when the realm was in schism, thus "all other women of henry concubines and not wives". prince edward was (legitimate) heir as reified by parliament; both retroactively from the succession act of 1536 and in name by the one of 1543.

foreign dignitaries of course, when they visited, would honour whoever henry's wife was as queen to maintain good relations and as matter of diplomacy (this wasn't, of course, done by the imperial until the last weeks of AB's time as queen, but otherwise, she was, even if 'frostily' by the french as in 1534). but they were often under instruction to treat this status as transient, as lauren mackay has summarized in her biography of chapuys, for example, charles v was rather mercenary in his attitude towards jane seymour, continually referring to her as henry's 'mistress' well into their marriage in his own instructions to chapuys:

"It appears Charles [V] was at times rather ruthless in regards to Jane, despite the fact that her being in power benefitted Mary. Charles referred to her in several dispatches as Henry's mistress rather than queen [...]" Inside the Tudor Court, Lauren Mackay

[boleynqueenes]

Major Arcana: Priestess (02) & Lovers (06)

02. THE HIGH PRIESTESS: WISDOM (What are your go-to craft books or resources?) 

For writing, Saves the Cat! Writes a Novel and A Creative Rebel's Guide to Writing Amazing Fiction has been helpful.

For research, tagged/NT notes pretty much has all my books. Thurley's for Tudor architecture/setting stuff, John Guy's Children of Henry VIII has been really helpful for background, even the characters that have only one (so far or otherwise) POV chapters have some background, Susan Wabuda's biography of Cranmer, Margaret Scard's on Paulet, Jeff Lavender's thesis on Henry Norris, Adam Pennington's book about the 'Plantagenet(-)Poles', and podcasts interviews, like Elizabeth Norton's on the Seymours.

06. THE LOVERS: RELATIONSHIPS (What are your favorite relationships to write about, whether romantic, familial, or platonic?) 

The Boleyn siblings, G/J, H/A, have outlined and drafted and am planning on contrasting Cromwell & AB's first meeting in December 1528 with one in late 1535, which should be interesting...

[fideidefenswhore]

Jane stans are literally the most unpleasant people I've had the misfortune to trip over on Tumblr. The sanctimony and double standards defy belief. Seriously, can they keep to a coherent thought process?

It's the strawman arguments for me.

[fideidefenswhore]

very random but why did worsley choose to villainize cranmer > henry...