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Monthly Archives: April, 2024

HOLMES AND A.I. PART 2

YESTERDAY IN PART 1, WE BEGAN EXPLORING how attuned the world’s greatest consultive detective would have been with Artificial Intelligence. We continue here in Part 2 with more analyses. There’s … Continue reading

April 10, 2024 · Leave a comment

HOLMES AND A.I. PART 1

WHAT WOULD THE WORLD’S GREATEST consulting detective think of Artificial Intelligence? Having examined Sherlockiana for clues, I offer tidbits for some future Large Language Model. The LLM will have Parts … Continue reading

April 9, 2024 · Leave a comment

A.I. DOOMERISM? PART 2

YESTERDAY, we learned about aspects of Artificial Intelligence, both good and bad, described in Paul Taylor’s LRB review of two books on the subject.  The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and … Continue reading

April 8, 2024 · 3 Comments

A.I. DOOMERISM?    PART 1    

BACK IN 2020 PAUL TAYLOR taught me what little I know about “SIR modeling,” “Susceptible, Infectious, Recovered” as they relate to epidemics such as Covid.  This time around, Taylor writes … Continue reading

April 7, 2024 · 1 Comment

AN OLD FRIEND, A NEW GMAX PROJECT

THE CONSOLIDATED PBY CATALINA is an old friend at SimanaitisSays. In fact, it made an appearance here in “Twenty-six Miles Across the Sea, a PBY Has Transported Me.” Actually, I … Continue reading

April 6, 2024 · 1 Comment

A GIFTED LIFE OF TRAVEL

HAVING JUST READ THE DISCOVERER BLOG’S “12 Types of Trips Everyone Should Take in Their Lifetime,” I am all the more certain that I’ve had a gifted life of travel. … Continue reading

April 5, 2024 · 4 Comments

MATHS VERSUS MATH

THE ENGLISH CALL IT “MATHS,” WHEREAS we ’Mericans call it “math.” And in a sense, this monolithic view of math’s many elements is reflected in math instruction in the U.S. … Continue reading

April 4, 2024 · 5 Comments

THE OED IS COOKIN’—IN JAPANESE

THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE adds 23 Japanese words in its latest update. Ella Creamer reports this in The Guardian, March 27, 2024: “More than half of … Continue reading

April 3, 2024 · Leave a comment

SOCAL ART SCENE—ONE CELEBRATORY, THE OTHER PUZZLING PART 2

YESTERDAY, SHEPARD FAIREY’S ART at the Glendale Central Library was celebrated here at SimanaitisSays. Today in Part 2, Voice of America reports an art puzzle, also occurring in SoCal.  Where’s … Continue reading

April 2, 2024 · Leave a comment

SOCAL ART SCENE—ONE CELEBRATORY, THE OTHER PUZZLING PART 1

MY LITTLE CORNER OF THE WORLD is in the art news. One is celebratory, an exhibit of the works of Shepard Fairey called “Peace is Radical.” The other is puzzling, … Continue reading

April 1, 2024 · Leave a comment