<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp657736dcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Ising latch machines? <span>chaq</span>. Can't say I've heard of them myself.<br></div><div class="ydp657736dcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br></div><div class="ydp657736dcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><br></div><div class="ydp657736dcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Then there's the Dany headphone manufacturer. I <span>discovered the</span> 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.<br></div><div class="ydp657736dcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div class="ydp657736dcyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div id="ydp384af81ayahoo_quoted_7329945481" class="ydp384af81ayahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div dir="ltr">>Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:24:36 +0100<br></div><div dir="ltr">>From: "De'vID" <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>To: <a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@kli.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tlhingan-hol@kli.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: re'chIv<br></div><div dir="ltr">>Message-ID:<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <CA+7zAmNRTRQRGzM-q4mcGXY_j1hFODXVW+BeQtXbK1Yru+uo5A@mail.gmail.com><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>I think what I'm about to describe is very likely a real coincidence (as<br></div><div dir="ltr">>in, unintended by Marc Okrand), but an Ising machine is a type of computing<br></div><div dir="ltr">>device which uses the Ising model (named after physicist Ernst Ising), and<br></div><div dir="ltr">>a latch is a circuit with two stable states, and there are in fact such<br></div><div dir="ltr">>things as latch Ising machines, but unless Okrand is *really* into<br></div><div dir="ltr">>electronics, I doubt this is the inspiration behind the word. Although, who<br></div><div dir="ltr">>knows, maybe he was looking for inspiration and just happened upon the term.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>-- <br></div><div dir="ltr">>De'vID<br></div><br></div>
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