CHRONICLE OF AVIATION—1921
THE ROARING TWENTIES followed the roar of warfare, the latter including unprecedented combat in the air. Bombers were converted to passenger service. Surplus fighter planes gave barnstormers a peacetime career. … Continue reading
NEW THOUGHTS ON A.I. PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE SHARPENED our discussion of artificial intelligence by separating A.I. from some guy named Al. We also gleaned tidbits from James Fallows’ article in The New York Times Book … Continue reading
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
LONDON BRIDGE—FALLING TO LAKE HAVASU CITY
GREAT CITIES ARE established on rivers: London’s Thames, Paris’s Seine, Vienna’s Danube, St. Petersburg’s Neva, Prague’s Vltava; the list goes on. Rivers encourage commerce and development. But they also offer … Continue reading
A FABULOUS GEM, ETYMOLOGY—PLUS A LAST-MINUTE PUZZLE!
I’VE NEVER VISITED M.S. Rau Fine Art Antiques Jewels, on Royal Street in New Orleans. But it runs some of the spiffiest ads. This recent one, “Beyond Blue: Tanzanite Ring,” … Continue reading
AUSTIN-HEALEY 100
JUST AS THE 1949 Jaguar XK-120 rightfully boasted of its 120-mph capability, the Austin-Healey 100 made good on its nomenclature. As R&T wrote, “Even when the ‘100’ was first announced, … Continue reading
YEGGMAN RESEARCH
THE TERM “YEGGMAN” arose in a recent cop show on SiriusXM “Radio Classics.” I knew it meant “safe cracker,” but not much else. This called for research; here are tidbits … Continue reading
A SET-THEORETIC BALLET IN TWO ACTS—SELF-TAUGHT
I KNOW LITTLE about composing a ballet. On the other hand, I didn’t know much about magazine production when Larry Givens took me on as Associate Engineering Editor for SAE’s … Continue reading
CHINA’S DIGITAL ECONOMY
LONG LING, A GOVERNMENT official in Beijing, contributed “Diary: At the Temple,” in the London Review of Books, January 21, 2021. A vignette in her article encouraged me to learn … Continue reading
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
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