MAKING (OR LOSING) ZILLIONS AT (ALMOST) THE SPEED OF LIGHT
HFT IS short for high-frequency trading, the predominant communication of financial markets around the world. SimanaitisSays has touched on this topic twice, “Trading in Nanoseconds”, June 16, 2014; and ”Lasers … Continue reading
KAREN UHLENBECK WINS THE ABEL PRIZE!
LET’S ALL congratulate Dr. Karen Uhlenbeck. She’s the first woman to win the Abel Prize, one of the world’s top awards in mathematics. One of her mathematical specialities, briefly put, … Continue reading
MATHEMATICAL INDUCTION: DOMINOES OF LOGIC
THE WORD “INDUCTION” has a whole bunch of meanings: Merriam-Webster starts with “the act or process of inducting (as into office),” which is sort of a definitional cop-out: What’s “inducting”? … Continue reading
AL MOONEY’S 1938 CULVER DART MODEL G
AL MOONEY’S AIRCRAFT included, among others, the Alexander Eaglerock and Bullet, the Bellanca Irish Swoop racer and its Airbus cargo plane, the Monocoupe Dart Model G and its Monocoach sibliing, … Continue reading
MEMORIES AND TIDBITS FROM A COOK’S PART 2
YESTERDAY’S MEMORIES and tidbits involved driving south from Paris, dining in Vienne, dancing in Avignon, and recalling an imaginary friendship in Tarascon. Today in Part 2, let’s have a Nice … Continue reading
MEMORIES AND TIDBITS FROM A COOK’S PART 1
I WAS LEAFING through one of my old travel books, Cook’s Traveller’s Handbook Riviera and Pyrenees, 1923, and its descriptions prompted memories of my own travels more than 60 years … Continue reading
HOLMES ON THE WIRELESS PART 2
RADIO RENDITIONS of Holmes wireless adventures yesterday at SimanaitisSays involved famed Sherlockian William Gillette and unsung portrayals by others on pioneer radio stations. Today, in Part 2, let’s make room … Continue reading
HOLMES ON THE WIRELESS PART 1
DEVELOPMENT OF the wireless coincided with Sherlock Holmes’ retirement from being the world’s first consulting detective. His last bow, chronicled by Dr. John H. Watson and cleverly enough titled “His … Continue reading
GETTING ANSTY ABOUT NAVIGATION
AT SUPERFICIAL GLANCE, ants seem to alternate between random walks and purposeful straightline travel. Scientists at Aix Marseille University in Marseille, France, have created an AntBot that delves beyond the … Continue reading
EARTH PHOTOBOMBS THE BAD SIDE OF THE MOON
LINK THE FOLLOWING: Chinese space engineers, professors and students at China’s Harbin Institute of Technology, Dutch amateur radio astronomers, and Bernie Taupin. Back in 1970, poet/lyricist Bernie Taupin wrote “Bad … Continue reading
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