GEE, I THOUGHT I HAD STUFF
THE HISTORIC ENGLAND WEBSITE recently posted “Birkenhead’s Hidden Gem of Outsider Art ‘Ron’s Place’ Newly Listed.” An Unassuming Victorian Villa—Not. Historic England writes, “Concealed for over 30 years within an … Continue reading
CELEBRATING LATE-19TH-CENTURY LITERARY ART
“THE VOGUE FOR LITERARY POSTERS,” Leah Greenblatt writes in The New York Times, April 5, 2024, “burned briefly, beginning in 1893 and lasting not much more than a decade.” And … Continue reading
SHAKESPEARE’S WORDS
THE Words Trivia website offers “5 Ways Shakespeare Changed English That You Never Knew.” I add these Shakespearean tidbits to “Bereft of Insults?,” “Shakespeare’s Vocabulary,” and “OP Shakespeare,” this last … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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