ON OLD REFERENCE BOOKS
I PONDER OCCASIONALLY, AMIDST SCADS OF BOOKS, whether a few clicks of the computer keyboard wouldn’t replace them all. This, in a sense, is the idea being LLM, large language … Continue reading
CAR BUYERS AND USERS FOR SALE
IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG for the Internet to learn monetization. We are the product, not simply the users. And the automakers are now following suit. In *Privacy Not Included, September … Continue reading
MPC AIDING STEMMERS
STEM STUDENTS (THOSE STRIVING FOR degrees in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics) have Calculus 1 as a first hurdle. And for many it’s a formidable one. According to AAAS Science, … Continue reading
DRIVEN TO CRIME PART 2
YESTERDAY WE GLEANED TIDBITS from Crispian Besley’s Driven to Crime: True Stories of Wrongdoing in Motor Racing. Today in Part 2, we find that clever deceits have a way of … Continue reading
DRIVEN TO CRIME PART 1
MOTORSPORTS HAS HAD ITS SHARE of rascals and skullduggery. See, for example, “Smuggling and Motorsports”, “Tripoli Tangles, 1933”, and “Politics and Motorsports” here at SimanaitisSays. For an entertaining collection of … Continue reading
NOW WE’VE GOT A WORD FOR THAT
THE WEBSITE DICTIONARY.COM ANNOUNCES ITS “New Words Drop! Get the First Look at Our Fall 2023 Collection of Dictionary Additions,” September 5, 2023. Wishing to be au courant on matters … Continue reading
PUTTING ART DECO TO WORK
NEW YORK’S POSTER HOUSE ANNOUNCES its exhibition “Art Deco: Commerciailizing the Avant-Garde” with a provocative statement: “The term ‘Art Deco’ did not exist until the 1960s.” This in itself got … Continue reading
FORMULA ONE—A HALF-CENTURY AGO
IT SURE SOUNDS FAMILIAR: Jonathan Thompson wrote about a driver performing “perfectly all year long… staying up front so consistently that his challengers were demoralized.” Jon was reviewing the 1972 … Continue reading
ART FORGERY
ROSEMARY HILL IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE writers in London Review of Books. This time around, her September 7, 2023, article ‘Art and Artifice’ reviews what she calls “the Courtauld … Continue reading
A WELL-SUITED EDO SAMURAI
FROM TIME TO TIME, M.S. Rau, Fine Arts, Antiques, Jewels offers enticing advertisements in The New York Times. This time around, it’s “A Warrior’s Armor: Japanese Samurai Suit.” And quite … Continue reading
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