[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: re'chIv

[James Landau]

Ising latch machines? chaq. Can't say I've heard of them myself.


Then there's the Dany headphone manufacturer. I discovered the name when I was trying to figure out the etymology/pun behind *DannI'* (which was my chabal tetlh request, BTW). Maybe that's it, maybe that's not it, but I can't imagine what else it would be.


>Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:24:36 +0100
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>I think what I'm about to describe is very likely a real coincidence (as
>in, unintended by Marc Okrand), but an Ising machine is a type of computing
>device which uses the Ising model (named after physicist Ernst Ising), and
>a latch is a circuit with two stable states, and there are in fact such
>things as latch Ising machines, but unless Okrand is *really* into
>electronics, I doubt this is the inspiration behind the word. Although, who
>knows, maybe he was looking for inspiration and just happened upon the term.
>
>-- 
>De'vID

  
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