CATCHIN’ ZZZS WITH THE WADDLE
ANIMALS OF ALL SORTS, HUMANS INCLUDED, engage in microsleep, seconds-long interruptions of wakefulness. Why they/we do it is not completely clear, as the short duration may have little benefit in … Continue reading
A.I. TO REVOLUTIONIZE WEATHER PREDICTION
METEOROLOGISTS DESCRIBE IT AS “the ‘quiet revolution’: a gradual but steady improvement in weather forecasting.” Paul Voosen writes in AAAS Science, November 17, 2023, “Today the 6-day forecast is about … Continue reading
MORE A.I. BS
QUITE INDEPENDENT OF RECENT BUSINESS MACHINATIONS in the A.I. industry, there still remains the inherent problem of addressing hallucinations. SimanaitisSays discussed this in “On Chatbots and Other Hallucinators.” And in … Continue reading
TURING’S BOMBE; HOLMES MEETS HARRY NILE
TALK ABOUT SERENDIPITY: November 30 marks publication of Alan Turing’s 1936 paper “On Computable Numbers, with Application to the Entscheidungsproblem.” The November 2023 issue of BBC HISTORY recounts this idea … Continue reading
A VERTICAL TOUR
BRITISH ASTRONOMER FRED HOYLE GOT ME THINKING about the sliver of atmosphere making life possible on Earth. Here are tidbits about this, sourced from one place and another, including SimanaitisSays. … Continue reading
SCIENCE FOR ARTIES, POETRY FOR TECHIES
WE LAMENT THESE DAYS the chasms of thought between this and that, reds and blues, one thing and another. Occasionally, though, a unifying aspect appears. And so it is with … Continue reading
INFANCY TIDBITS
ONE INTERESTING FACT LEADS to another. As an example, the Interesting Facts website recently noted that “Babies Blink Less Than Adults.” Here are tidbits gleaned from this report and from … Continue reading
STAYING DRY, MINISCULE-FASHION
THIS IS A SMALL SIMANAITISSAYS ITEM DESCRIBING really small stuff, nanoparticles that help to keep things dry. The report from A? Aalto University, October 23, 2023, announces, “Revised method to … Continue reading
VINTAGE DIGITAL
WE LOVE VINTAGE CARS, VINTAGE WATCHES, vintage wines. Why not vintage digital? Moore’s Law predicted quite accurately a two-year obsolescence of almost anything digital, but what of the discarded stuff? … Continue reading
PSITTACIDAE ANGELINOS
THERE ARE LIKELY MORE RED-CROWNED PARROTS in Los Angeles than in their native range in Mexico. This tidbit caught my eye when KTLA5’s Travis Schlep asked “Why Are There So … Continue reading
