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Category Archives: Sci-Tech

NEW THOUGHTS ON A.I.   PART 1

MY MOST RECENT thought on artificial intelligence is to add punctuation, A.I. Hitherto, depending upon type font, discussions of this subject here at SimanaitisSays resembled a bio of a guy … Continue reading →

April 23, 2021 · Leave a comment

QUATERNIONS—EXPANDING OUR TOUR OF NUMBERS ON A DUBLIN BRIDGE

OUR TOUR OF numbers here at SimanaitisSays has included “You Can Count on Me—Or Maybe Not,” “Exploring Rationality,” and “Euler’s Elegance.”  Along the way, we’ve encountered three expanding sets of … Continue reading →

April 16, 2021 · Leave a comment

ON TRILLIONS

SUPPOSE AN OFFICIAL Counter had been commissioned at the birth of Christ to begin numbering the seconds (assuming, for the moment, a start at 1 A.D., not the 4 B.C. … Continue reading →

April 14, 2021 · 3 Comments

BIG EV BENEFITS FROM NANOTECH

A HEADLINE CAUGHT my eye: “Aiming for the 5-minute EV Recharge,” in SAE Automotive Engineering, April 2021. The Technology Report by Stuart Birch describes nanotech advances from NAWA Technologies, headquartered … Continue reading →

April 12, 2021 · 2 Comments

OLD COPPER FLOURISHED IN GREAT LAKES REGION

NO, I’M NOT making a political comment about policing in the U.S. Upper Midwest. Rather, I’m citing “Great Lakes People Among First Coppersmiths,” as reported by David Malakoff in Science … Continue reading →

April 10, 2021 · Leave a comment

ON OTHERWORDLY EVOLUTION

Do Darwin’s evolutionary theories describe life elsewhere in the universe? Are we already surpassing Darwin’s model here at home?   These heady thoughts are prompted by gleanings from The London … Continue reading →

March 30, 2021 · 1 Comment

EARTHQUAKES—“CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?”

WHAT WITH the Earth’s surface being three-quarters water, oceanic research is essential to understanding our world. However, such monitoring is especially difficult to deploy and maintain. Science magazine, published weekly … Continue reading →

March 28, 2021 · Leave a comment

PLANCK CORES—A NEW COSMOLOGICAL MODEL

SCIENTISTS ARE MODELERS. They devise mathematical models to explain what they perceive as reality. Pre-Copernicus, with human-centric and religious fervor, their model located Earth at their reality’s center. Newton refined … Continue reading →

March 13, 2021 · 1 Comment

MATHEMATICS AND Moby-Dick

I’VE MET SEVERAL world-famous mathematicians, including Lotfi Zadeh, 1921–2017, the discoverer of fuzzy logic. And my life has also been enriched by learning from those I’ve not had opportunity to … Continue reading →

March 12, 2021 · 3 Comments

ON INDUSTRY 4.0

THE MARCH 2021 Shift, published as a supplement to Automotive News, has a most interesting editorial by Leslie J. Allen, Shift Editor. She writes, “I’m not much for buzzwords,” but … Continue reading →

March 11, 2021 · 1 Comment